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Remember When?: Reminicing
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| Posted by admin on Monday, June 12 @ 03:11:11 EST (958 reads) |
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marty writes "I think somewhere in every simmers makeup there is a basic love of aircraft. Seeing them, identifying, drawing them as a kid and now as a simmer, if you have the skills. I’ll bet most of us, somewhere in the past have messed around with model airplanes either static, functional or both. Somehow some part of us has identified with aircraft in a way that is hard to explain. For me it started as a boy in the early sixties or late fifties, yes that’s 1950. I grew up on a dairy farm and fell in love with the crop dusters that fertilized the paddocks. It was a big day when the duster came, I would sit and watch them all day. Even getting pelted by the fertilizer was worth it. I would sit at the airstrip all day to see maybe four or five planes come and go. The first plane I can remember was a DH Dragon and I occasionally fly the model by Mr. Garwood. (dh89vrg1.zip). Other planes at the time were the Tigermoth, DC3, Pipers, Austers etc. The first time I saw A Focker friend ship I was Amazed. It just seemed so big fast and loud and was probably the first tricycle gear I ever saw.
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Remember When?: Into The Heavens
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| Posted by admin on Saturday, June 03 @ 17:55:24 EST |
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Good morning, today I will tell you about the most amazing flight I had recently. As regular readers will know, I have taken a new job at Darlot Gold Mine in Western Australia. If you have the latest L8 chart you will find Darlot 40nm east of Leinster
This new job requires me to fly in and out of Perth on a regular basis and I’m sure all of you know how much I hate flying. Yeah right, flying into Darlot is like a bonus on top of my pay. Darlot chooses to fly with Skippers Aviation and they run daily flights to Darlot in Brazillia 120’s and Metroliners. Finding out Skippers was there Charter Company excited me because I know a few of the pilots that work there. However I have not seen them on any of my flights yet.
After spending 2 weeks in Darlot working 11.5 hour days I was really looking forward to the flight home. The weather in Darlot had been hot and humid due to the recent passing of what remained of a Cyclone. I didn’t know it yet but our flight path was going to put us in conflict with that Ex Cyclone and provide some of the most spectacular sights I have ever seen.
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Remember When?: The 5000th 737 Rolls Out From Boeing
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| Posted by admin on Wednesday, April 26 @ 06:39:03 EST (1056 reads) |
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glottis writes "Boeing has celebrated the 5000th 737 to come off the production line and Guinness World Records has acknowledged the 737 as the most-produced large commercial jet airplane in aviation history.
"The 737 is an icon of efficiency in air travel and one of commercial aviations greatest success stories" said Alan Mulally, president and chief executive officer of Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
The 5000th 737, a 737-700 painted in Southwest Airlines colours is the 447th to join Southwest Airline's fleet.
" This article is based on the Boeing press release featured in the Boeing: 5000th 737 Media Kit
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Remember When?: Cross Country in Cessna VH-TOQ
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| Posted by admin on Sunday, March 26 @ 16:00:00 EST |
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Cross-Country.
As a young (well, in my 20’s!) draftsman in the engineering department of a Sydney company, I worked with a chap who was into flying and who was getting his VFR license.
Every Saturday John would spend time at Bankstown airport, spending his pay on his flying lessons and racking up flying-time credit by helping out with servicing the aircraft at the flying school.
One weekend - it was in 1966 or 1967, I can’t recall the exact date - he had to do his cross-country, which was to take him from Bankstown to Canberra, then Temora or Cowra or somewhere and eventually back to Bankstown. I was invited along for the ride as a back-seat passenger.
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Remember When?: Cooma by DC-3
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| Posted by admin on Saturday, March 25 @ 15:43:50 EST |
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Lesson 1: Instilling confidence in your passengers.
The Sydney-based company that I worked for from 1964 until its takeover in 1975 was involved in the Snowy Mountains Scheme, undertaking several contracts in various power stations.
In the latter half of the 1960’s I and my boss had reason to fly down to Cooma - the HQ of the Scheme - in an Airlines of New South Wales DC-3.
We boarded the aircraft, took our seats and after a little while the old bird trundled out through the taxiways and came to the end of the runway, ready for its take-off run.
The pilot ran the engines up, there were a few bangs and splutters from the starboard unit and, in due course, the aircraft reversed direction and trundled back from whence it came.
After we came to a halt the door to the cockpit swung open and the captain stood there, looking down at his expectant, concerned and captive audience.
“Ladies and gentlemen”, he announced, with a bit of a grin, “There will be a slight delay while we change a couple of spark-plugs”!!
(An aircraft of the type referred to above: http://www.adastron.com/dc-3/vhanr2.jpg )
Bruce Kennewell
Canberra, Australia. |
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Remember When?: Footnote to History: A Little Mystery from ‘G for George’
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| Posted by admin on Tuesday, March 21 @ 17:30:00 EST |
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My son and I are volunteers with the Treloar Technology Centre, helping to carry out restoration work over the past twelve months on both the Lancaster (‘George’) and Beaufort bombers.
Most of the work that we have been doing has been of the "spear-carrying" type - the stripping and cleaning of components and also cleaning of the internal and external surfaces of ‘George’.
It was whilst doing such a job last November that one of the many interesting little addendums to the overall history of the aircraft came to light, as follows... |
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Remember When?: DC3 Heavy Load out of PNG
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| Posted by admin on Monday, March 20 @ 15:41:09 EST (2617 reads) |
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teecee writes "In 1982, I was working as load controller for TAA, and I was in the cargo shed in Launceston when I heard a familiar sound, the thrum of a DC3's engine. So I walked out and there was a sight I never thought I'd see again. VH-UPQ, a DC3 that I was despatcher for in the Alice in the early seventies. She did the Ayers Rock (as it was back then) run in those days (1974 I think) for Connellan Airways, and was flown at that time by Christine Davy, now a member of the Australian Pioneer Womens Hall of Fame, and the first woman in Aus to hold a captain's licence for passenger aircraft." |
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