They do indeed have an A-20 now...
They do indeed have an A-20 now...
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I believe this was the Catalina. Look's pretty much the same as when I saw her.
https://www.airforce.gov.au/raafmuse...n/catalina.htm
That being said I cannot remember if it was actually "in" the museum or in one of the surrounding hangers that were populated with various raaf aircraft.
Made it to Alice Springs today. Getting used to this nimble little turboprop.
I'm getting rather fond of the "Skypig". Piglet did a great job with it.
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Got a close look at Uluru. Impressive sight!
Not sure where we're at, but the town is sure small and there's not even a snow cone stand at the airfield.
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Swept into Broome today. Been a long time since we have seen the ocean.
Note: Traded up for a larger more comfortable ride.
Hehe, finally remember to install some film into our on board camera.
Crowded day on the ramp in Newman, Western Australia.
No idea where we're going. I'm just following the crowd....
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Into Karratha Airport on the coast. Snapped a shot of Mt. Whaleback Mine (iron ore), after departing Newman.
We made it out to the coast. I've heard the fishin' is pretty good here, so I got a new fishin' pole....
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Howdy all, just a couple shots of last nights flight. Before takeoff and after the landings.
Nice flight to YCUE tonight... Found this smokin' crater and just had to ask.....
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And a few more from tonight's flight...
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With a dozen rockets, a pair of underwing 7.62 mini-guns and a rudimentary gunsight, I'm ready for a night out on the town in Perth (our next stop)
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On the road from Perth to Margaret River. Watch out for the cones!
On the ramp at Perth before we left
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It was a long flight to YFRT, so I went with something a bit more comfy and with sleeper berths....
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I've been asked to do a little airmail flying. Seems their airmail pilot went out on "walkabout" and hasn't returned.
(obviously, they have either not seen my flight last night or they're really desperate)
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Had an "interesting" flight to YMTG tonight.
I had went up to 15,000 trying to get some speed out of the Stratoliner and it got to be time to descend. I'd installed a new overspeed "alarm" and figured it would be a good time to test it. So here I am, dropping kind of fast and trying to keep an eye on the airspeed while doing the chatbox thing. I start hearing some knocking and clattering and look over and I've overpressured #2 & #4 and they're just barely running if at all. I throttled back to below max continous and #1 & #3 are still running good so at least I've got one on each wing.
I'm getting closer to the airfield and start my approach
About this point I realise that I'm too low and on just two engines, there's no such thing as climbing just slowing the descent. Then just to the left of the airport going through the woods, I see a road. I figured it was better to try to land on that road than go down through the trees so , I aim for it
I touch down on the road and start slowing down as I get closer to the airfield. Right as I start to enter the clearing the airfield is in, I hit the last tree!
So it looks like I might be spending the holidays here waiting on a couple of engines to come in the mail and getting the dent out of the wing.
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Hi There! It has been awhile since my last post. Here are a couple of pictures from last nights flight.
We had a great flight to Kings Island. I even managed to not hit anything on the ground.
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We landed in Hobart last night for the last leg of our tour of the Great Southern Land. It's been fun, but far more northern climes are calling.
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