Airshow, Office and Family

Posted on March 15, 2005 by Falcon124

I’m currently working down at the Avalon Airshow as a Ground Operations aircraft marshal. Yup, that’s right, I’ve got the bats and I’m out there telling bloody great jets where to go. The section I’m in gets a lot of traffic and includes the combat jets, warbirds and a lot of the heavy jets transit through on their way to the keyhole.

Keep an eye on my flying section as I hope to have that up and running soon with a log of what’s been happening out there. Photos will be loaded in the Aircraft Photo section as and when I have a chance.

Between Avalon, my work for the AWU (network switch failure today – DOH!) and my family, there’s not much time for updating web sites…

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Mothcair at Murwillumbah Airstrip

Posted on December 22, 2004 by Falcon124

Murray (Kitt’s grandfather) invited us out to Murwillumbah airstrip (YMUR) to visit the folks at Mothcair, an organisation specialising in the restoration of early British aircraft (plus a few early US designs). It was great to visit and chat with everyone there – they’ve done a number of projects and really do enjoy their work. I managed to get a few photos while there, including some of an old Beach 18 that was parked out front.

NOTE: 2008-10-23: During our time at Mothcair, I was talking to one of the guys about flying and aircraft and so on. He said that based on the passion I was showing, if I didn’t get myself into aviation and go flying, I’d go mad. He said it was clear I was hooked and what the hell was I doing not getting my butt off the ground? It was a significant moment for me, perhaps more in hindsite than at the time, as not long after this I wound up working as crew (and then crew chief) with the hot air balloons back in Melbourne.

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And so it begins (sorta)

Posted on December 1, 2004 by Falcon124

This post marks the start of my aviation related blogging. I actually started this blog in 2008 but had a number of aviation related posts on my other blog. While they’re all still there, I’ve also put copies of them here so all my flying related information is in one spot.

So, eventually as you work through all these posts you’ll get to 2008 and find my original first post. Don’t get confused, it’s where I really started this blog as opposed to these entries that are “post-dated.”

Of course, I’ve been having flying related adventures for decades earlier than this point, let alone when I actually started the blog, but if I get around to blogging about them, it’ll be as a “reminiscence” and not back-dated like these early entries are.

Confused? Just wait ’til we get time travel sorted out and you’ll *really* get confused.

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