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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
6th Apr 2009, 06:10
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Because the young blokes think that us old...

Because the young blokes think that us old fossils and our clanking ol aircraft are BORING, not like their glass cockpits, super technology, hubcaped, well behaved aircraft, which are far more...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
1st Apr 2009, 04:08
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

James I will put my hand up for about 2,000 hrs,...

James I will put my hand up for about 2,000 hrs, cannot check at the present time, as we have packed up, as the missus has decreed we are moving, due to relocation of sprogs and grandsprogs. I have...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
21st Mar 2009, 12:37
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

A flight attendant called the 9 "a old rattler"?...

A flight attendant called the 9 "a old rattler"? Have her hunted down, tarred and feathered, and she was working on a 737???!! No class what so ever! The Nine, she was a lover to us all, the 737, oh...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
15th Mar 2009, 07:17
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Boocs, there were far harder workers than I....

Boocs, there were far harder workers than I. Brain Jackson aka "rughead" was along with some banker or something the first to get it going. How Rughead managed to be a stoker, as well as Mayor of our...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
13th Mar 2009, 13:01
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Thanks for the picture Chimbu, last time I saw...

Thanks for the picture Chimbu, last time I saw Jack Curtis, he was hanging out of a DC3, at some airshow, I saw Tom Fuller hanging off a shopping trolley last Xmas, (not that I can talk, so was I)...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
13th Mar 2009, 06:02
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Well it actually went more like: F/O... so what...

Well it actually went more like: F/O... so what were you blokes thinking A? so look at you now, A? Jeesus you were a pack of morons, A? Well we will never let the bastards beat us, A? Me: nod, nod,...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
13th Mar 2009, 03:05
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

She is indeed a lovely thing Capt. Claret, her...

She is indeed a lovely thing Capt. Claret, her nose and radome are not quite the same, but she could still pass as a nine for computer nerds. Thanks for the great shots.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
12th Mar 2009, 01:49
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Stationair, finished on the Airbus, and left OZ...

Stationair, finished on the Airbus, and left OZ after 89 for a 3 year stint in Europe (Belgium) came back to OZ as wife and kids very homesick, with a 747 endorsement, went gratefully to QF (as had...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Mar 2009, 05:29
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Sigh, things are so different. I had a drink...

Sigh, things are so different. I had a drink with a ex F/E in SYD the other day and he reminded me of a time when we were flying a 727 from PER/SYD, it was the dreaded red eye of course, and at 0200...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
10th Mar 2009, 12:08
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Nah Pinky, never got lucky, perhaps it was the...

Nah Pinky, never got lucky, perhaps it was the smell of the eels. I think I just lay on the cot dreaming of ways to kill slats, before he smacked me in the head again.:(
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
10th Mar 2009, 11:57
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

You are correct obie he could not have been in...

You are correct obie he could not have been in 89' he had already long gone to SQ, but what he did was offer help and a handup to many of the pilots he knew so well and trained, and because he was...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
10th Mar 2009, 02:09
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

James, we are talking about Gordon Close, one of...

James, we are talking about Gordon Close, one of natures gentlemen, and with out doubt probably the best pilot I have ever seen. They called him "silky" because of his landings, he was born in CNS,...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
9th Mar 2009, 10:54
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Obie, pi$s off!

Obie, pi$s off!
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
9th Mar 2009, 08:45
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

James the 4th, Slats was the ol bastard who...

James the 4th, Slats was the ol bastard who knocked my headset off because the DC3 donks were out of sync, Ok it was midnight, he was asleep (or so I thought) I was doing the usual checks, but as a...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
6th Mar 2009, 11:39
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Sixties, yes, the older blokes say from 50 on, as...

Sixties, yes, the older blokes say from 50 on, as you know, had been happily trundling around the skies for 30 odd years, in piston, and later turboprop aircraft, and then suddenly confronted with...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
5th Mar 2009, 22:34
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

If we buy one, can I keep it at my place, the...

If we buy one, can I keep it at my place, the missus will have to move out, they would hate one another!:)
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
5th Mar 2009, 12:21
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Sixties, when I first set eyes on the 9 after my...

Sixties, when I first set eyes on the 9 after my New Guinea stint, I was gobsmacked, she was taxiing out at SYD and I well remember standing there just watching her, and like the rest of you became...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
4th Mar 2009, 23:12
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Wiley, I could not agree with you more, I sent...

Wiley, I could not agree with you more, I sent mine "paddock bashing" from the time they were 19 years old, no cadetships for them, even if daddy was a captain at the time, and it nearly caused a...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
4th Mar 2009, 11:32
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Sixties relic, I think we were privileged to fly...

Sixties relic, I think we were privileged to fly with Captains that were of the old school, often blokes who served in the Second World War, some had been POWs, most were interesting, some plain...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
3rd Mar 2009, 10:42
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

James the 4th around what time did you spend in...

James the 4th around what time did you spend in New Guinea. Where you there around the same time as "greasy" 'argus" and "kauso" "digger" and the rest of the bast#rds?
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
3rd Mar 2009, 10:35
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Glitchfield has written a excellent book, (so...

Glitchfield has written a excellent book, (so good my son has made off with it and lost it up the track somewhere) and I will have to get another, so I suggest you send him a email and get a copy, it...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
22nd Feb 2009, 11:25
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Interesting about uniforms, somehow I managed to...

Interesting about uniforms, somehow I managed to "volunteer" to go onto the DC3 VH MIN and was stationed at Boulia. The aircraft was seconded out wet to the Dept of Mineral Deposits and we lived at...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
16th Feb 2009, 11:45
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

God, I had forgotten about the smell of the sim,...

God, I had forgotten about the smell of the sim, but never forgotten the smell of the actual aircraft, no pansy bloody smell, just always had a nice sort of engine smell, and I know I am becoming...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
15th Feb 2009, 09:15
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Givelda, it makes me homesick. Nothing I flew...

Givelda, it makes me homesick. Nothing I flew from the Tiger Moth, yes the Tiger Moth, to the 747 makes me turn to water like that picture of the "liddle girlies" (as our italian LAME used to call...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
13th Feb 2009, 10:03
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Whoever is interested in writing a book speak to...

Whoever is interested in writing a book speak to Glichfield, already a author, and a TAA legend, he is the man with most knowledge. (He is going to kill me for this) this bloke could land a 747 on a...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Feb 2009, 10:32
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Glitchfield1 I think the Ilakai was known as...

Glitchfield1 I think the Ilakai was known as Menopause Manor by QF crews due to the nbr of well padded middle aged ladies who went there from stateside for their hols. Spent a couple of interesting...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
7th Feb 2009, 11:26
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Weheka, you are probably correct, I know 30 raids...

Weheka, you are probably correct, I know 30 raids normally was the finish of that tour, very few made it of course, but somehow Peter kept going and it beggers belief that he survived. I think only...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
6th Feb 2009, 11:23
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Amazing bloke Peter, he nearly bought it over...

Amazing bloke Peter, he nearly bought it over Berlin when a piece of flak came up thru the fuselage, between the pilots, hitting the roof and then falling back on him. (he has still got it and it is...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
6th Feb 2009, 05:50
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Sixtiesrelic, I spoke to Peter Kausman this...

Sixtiesrelic, I spoke to Peter Kausman this morning and he is very interested in the fact that he is dead. He might feel like it, as he has spent the last couple of nights keeping the flood waters...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
4th Feb 2009, 01:45
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Thanks sixties, the last one was a beauty, but...

Thanks sixties, the last one was a beauty, but just a note, if from out of town, book a hotel close by, as we waited for one and a half hours for a cab and finally got one at 0100, or take a car and...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
3rd Feb 2009, 11:24
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Wiley, one of my most memorable flights was in...

Wiley, one of my most memorable flights was in New Guinea, on a Twotter, single pilot ops, taking six police boys to Buna, when the peace was shattered by a exploding head door, followed by a police...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
3rd Feb 2009, 10:55
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Stationair8, I think I drove a beat up old EK...

Stationair8, I think I drove a beat up old EK holden station wagon for a airport car, the only people who had AIDS were Generals, I never bothered to lock the house up at night, my kids got thumped...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
3rd Feb 2009, 06:01
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Lodown, those manuals taste like crap, regardless...

Lodown, those manuals taste like crap, regardless at what sort of table you are sitting at! Thank God I flew when you didn't need a manual to tell you how to take a p#ss, when F/Os didnt bring their...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
2nd Feb 2009, 06:03
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Dogone, always reduced tyre pressure in DRW if...

Dogone, always reduced tyre pressure in DRW if going on to Port Hedland on the 9.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
30th Jan 2009, 11:32
Replies: 745
Views: 244,002
Posted By teresa green

Sixtiesrelic, I knew that there were a few that...

Sixtiesrelic, I knew that there were a few that batted for both sides, but have to say most of the TN boys in New Guinea were skirt chasers. You are correct to say that most of us also at one stage...
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