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KANGAROO VALLY RESCUE
03/11/20 08:27
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. Read More…
Here is a reprint of an article from Flight Safety Magazine from 2001. Read More…
MH370, ET302 & CHARLIE
15/03/19 22:14
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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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
30/10/17 15:31
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…
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
10/04/17 15:59
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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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
06/04/17 15:51
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. Read More…
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. Read More…