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VW Car Club at the Moorabbin Air Museum
On a cold & windy morning at at the end of May, we had cancelled the day’s scheduled balloon flight in the Yarra Valley so on the way home, I figured I’d drop by Moorabbin Airport to pick up a … Continue reading
Matt Hall teaches us all how to “take our lumps”
When we used to have a blog at the Plane Crazy Down Under show’s website, my co-host Steve Visscher posted this article about our friends at the Airplane Geeks Podcast. I’ve posted it here to preserve his words so they … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, incident, Interview, Matt Hall, MXS-R, Red Bull Air Race, Windsor
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F35 for $60 million each (batteries not included :)
Recent reports state that Lockheed Martin are willing to put a fixed price limit on the F35. Indications are that it will be about US$60 million or so BUT we need to note the caveats: This is for Low Rate … Continue reading
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Tagged capability, CTOL, F35, government, lemon, Lockheed Martin, LRIP, STOVL
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Congratulations to the Airplane Geeks Podcast – 100 Episodes Strong!
When we used to have a blog at the Plane Crazy Down Under show’s website, my co-host Steve Visscher posted this article about our friends at the Airplane Geeks Podcast. I’ve posted it here to preserve his words so they … Continue reading
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Tagged 100, Airplane Geeks, Airplane Geeks Podcast, Courtney Miller, Dan Webb, David Vanderhoof, Max Flight, Rob Mark
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Having fun thanks to PCDU
For those of you who don’t know it, I’m co-host of the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast, currently Australia’s only aviation podcast although we know of a new one that’s about to start up soon. It’s been going for almost … Continue reading
Even with flight computers, you can over stress an Airbus tail
Remember the American Airlines A300 that crashed in the US after the vertical stabiliser broke off? The co-pilot over stressed the tail by pumping the rudders in an attempt to get out of wake-turbulence. In a similar situation in 2008, … Continue reading
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Tagged A300, A319, A320, a330, A340, adiru, Air Canada, alternate law, American Airlines, flight computers, Qantas, stress, swiss cheese, training, Transportation Safety Board, TSB, vertical stabiliser, wake turbulence, West Australia
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How fast the tables turn
It wasn’t that long ago that Virgin Blue could do no wrong in the eyes of the mainstream media while Qantas was being hounded over any little maintenance issue and its rapidly falling loads. How times change. In the past … Continue reading
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Tagged 747, A380, Air France, Amsterdam, Apple, ASX, Bruce Buchanan, domestic, Emirates, estimates, Europe, international, iPad, Jetstar, John Borghetti, KLM, London, Paris, profit, Qantas, reporting, Singapore, stock market, UK, Virgin Blue
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BA Cabin Crew Learned from Alitalia???
Let’s see now, British Airways have been struggling for a while with reports of poor service, losing high-end premium customers, cutting back on routes and recently announcing a second record financial loss in a row. Throw in the impact from … Continue reading
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Tagged alitalia, British Airways, cabin crew, idiots, strike, United
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Shakey Alliances for Virgin Blue
John Borghetti at Virgin Blue is getting some bad news lately with both the Department of Transport and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission raising objections to proposed alliances. The DoT have said they don’t like the look of the … Continue reading →