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KANGAROO VALLY RESCUE

Twenty years ago today, we did 60 radio, TV and press interviews worldwide after the Kangaroo Valley Rescue, and received the Air Safety Award from ASFA and the President's Award from AOPA.

Here is a reprint of an article from Flight Safety Magazine from 2001.
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MH370, ET302 & CHARLIE

Here’s to Charlie, *clink*, the victims of ET302, MH370 … and us.

Compared to the poor bastards in ET302, and the shocked witnesses who saw a magnificent machine disappear in front their eyes, Charlie was lucky.

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BEN SANDILANDS HAS LEFT US

And Now We Are Really Stuffed

Stricken with cancer, he refused to allow it be publicised:
"... my plan is to fade away when the time comes, and not make a big deal of it ...". Read More…

PETER ISAACSON AM, DFC, AFC, DFM

Flew his Lancaster under the Sydney Harbour Bridge

He
shall be remembered for his time as a Pathfinder Captain in the Second World War, flying in at treetop height to liberate prisoners of war, and marking targets. For flying his Lancaster under the Sydney Harbour Bridge to raise war bonds, (and for walking over it when he was 90); for being the consummate journalist, employer and publisher; famed editorial writer and family friend.
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A NIGHT TO REMEMBER

Chelsea Brown

She made me clever that night, she found a junior 727 first officer tinkering on a piano, and took him to the top of the world.
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