where did they all go?
Silly Old Git
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where did they all go?
All the little bugsmashers in Darwhine?
Useda hear em taking off once upon a time now there is bugger all....has everyone shut up shop?
Useda hear em taking off once upon a time now there is bugger all....has everyone shut up shop?
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Silly Old Git
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I never go near the airport it just so happens my office is not far from the Bagot road threshold
It occurred to me the other day bugger me no little hairyplanes ???
Usda be exciting when we had dead stick Chieftans and Bandits plunkin down al l over the place
It occurred to me the other day bugger me no little hairyplanes ???
Usda be exciting when we had dead stick Chieftans and Bandits plunkin down al l over the place
Silly Old Git
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Right under the app.
Oh....there goes a little 210 now.....
Was Bandits Twotters Barons 402 ,dont tell me they all stopped when someone had a career change to the animal shelter?
Oh....there goes a little 210 now.....
Was Bandits Twotters Barons 402 ,dont tell me they all stopped when someone had a career change to the animal shelter?
When I arrived in Darwin at the end of 98 I worked for Hardy, I don't think their fleet has changed much.
Wak Waks, Wimray, NAC, no longer exist.
Wimray had a lot of work in those days, they would crosshire NAC and Hardy aircraft, mostly single engine stuff.
Airnorth had pistons running all over the place as well. They also crosshired Hardy aircraft.
The good old days
Wak Waks, Wimray, NAC, no longer exist.
Wimray had a lot of work in those days, they would crosshire NAC and Hardy aircraft, mostly single engine stuff.
Airnorth had pistons running all over the place as well. They also crosshired Hardy aircraft.
The good old days
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Its all relative Tin...
I did a tiny bit of bugsmasher flying with Darwin Aero Club on the southside many moons ago...have spent the last little bit in GA deserts (TL, WLM) and couldn't help but notice the (relative) abundance of bugsmasheraction whilst in Darwin for Christmas (boxing day - pissing down pickhandles !)....
its all relative Tinnie....
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Ullp. Tin mate, recently shifted my wurly to a nuther part of the reserve, that being under the downwind leg of tother runway.
5:00am thort I wuz having a nightmare I was sure they had all gone to heaven, woke tottered out onto the balcony to see one crackling off onto base. 
Became a re'glar affair it did.
Anyroad caught up with it at the airport tother day, nice young bloke flying night freight Perth Hedland Perth 5:00am returning home to roost at sparrows.
They'd exchanged the blown 6 cyl 470's? for 8 cyl thingummys and they work a treat. The old girl looked like she'd seen better days but was happy earning an honest living carting the mail and stuff.
Tin mate, recently shifted my wurly to a nuther part of the reserve, that being under the downwind leg of tother runway.
JaYsus ! that was nice a QueenAir bellowing right over me head !
Became a re'glar affair it did. Anyroad caught up with it at the airport tother day, nice young bloke flying night freight Perth Hedland Perth 5:00am returning home to roost at sparrows.
They'd exchanged the blown 6 cyl 470's? for 8 cyl thingummys and they work a treat. The old girl looked like she'd seen better days but was happy earning an honest living carting the mail and stuff.
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If everything is working in a Queen gaunty its a gentlemans carriage
On another note I was watching FA18 take off in the stormy weather and wondered is it possible for the on-board radar to be used for WX or do they just bump into it?
On another note I was watching FA18 take off in the stormy weather and wondered is it possible for the on-board radar to be used for WX or do they just bump into it?
