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Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
11th Oct 2015, 20:16
Replies: 505
Views: 530,304
Posted By RodH

Old 60's Footage of Ansett-Ana L188 crew.

I was searching through youtube last night and came across this great video of Ansett-Ana in the 60's. For those of you who were around then it's a 20 minute story about a flight plan for a L188...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
12th Jul 2015, 00:49
Replies: 505
Views: 530,304
Posted By RodH

My goodness ACMS.

Are you insinuating that we did " naughty " things with the Hosties in those days ?? NEVER , well hardly ever , well sometimes . One must remember , it was the swinging sixties and things were quite...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
22nd May 2015, 21:58
Replies: 505
Views: 530,304
Posted By RodH

Thumbs up Dress code for First Class.

Back in the old days we did have to dress nicely if we wanted to be upgraded to First Class whilst travelling on a Staff Concession ticket. It was always nice to see nicely dressed people on board...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
9th Feb 2014, 01:28
Replies: 505
Views: 530,304
Posted By RodH

Unhappy Centaurus.

Captain of the ill fated Viscount Was Capt. Ken Cooper.
The F/O was John Gillam.
I joined Ansett -ANA in Jan 64 and John was on the same DC3 course but was employed by Ansett-MAL ( New Guinea ) ,...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
5th Feb 2014, 19:54
Replies: 505
Views: 530,304
Posted By RodH

Smile I flew the Viscounts .

Airsupport.
No mate , you are not the only one to remember the Viscounts.
I flew the horrible things as an F/O in 1964.
What an absolute heap of crap they were. Everything that could go wrong with...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
27th Jan 2014, 03:39
Replies: 505
Views: 530,304
Posted By RodH

Thumbs up Reply

airsupport
Sorry for the late reply .
I was outside trying to clean my place up after a 5 week absence.
Yes , they are my real initials and I was a Captain with them and it probably was me that...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
26th Jan 2014, 23:11
Replies: 505
Views: 530,304
Posted By RodH

I was also with Compass and the remark I made was...

I was also with Compass and the remark I made was meant to reflect that the other 2 Airlines saw them as a threat and as you said some totally rotten things were done to it..
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
26th Jan 2014, 20:26
Replies: 505
Views: 530,304
Posted By RodH

Smile It's not cynical

airsupport.
I still believe that a lot of the reason we all helped each other was that we had very little to lose by doing so and we did enjoy helping out.
However , most would not be very willing...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
25th Jan 2014, 21:13
Replies: 505
Views: 530,304
Posted By RodH

Grrr Why we all cooperated

It sure was good clean fun in those days. We even got to mix with the " Hosties " as well as other staff.
I reckon the big reason for all of the cooperation is that there was virtually NO...
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