f you’ve ever looked skyward in Sydney, there’s a high chance you’ve seen a bright red aircraft with old-style German crosses on the wings. Originally flying an old Tiger Moth, the Red Baron flew out of Bankstown and gave joy flights to members of the public, flying over Sydney’s beaches and occasionally doing aerobatics.
Roll forward to today and Red Baron scenic & aerobatic flights is now owned by Joel Haski [...]
Archive for November, 2009
26
Nov
2009
Episode 18: Tally Ho, it’s the Red Baron!
Tags: Aerobatics, Airvan, Extra 200, GA-8, Joel Haski, Pitts Special, Red Baron, RedBull, Sydney Aerobatics, Tiger Moth
20
Nov
2009
Episode 17: The Ipanator says “Rivet Shower? Not on *my* Watch!”
Tags: Air Traffic Control, ATC, Ben Ippolito, GAAP, Jeremy Peck, Pushing Tin, RAAF, rivet shower, The Flick
How many of you folks have wanted to be Air Traffic Controllers? Do you dream of Pushing Tin around the skies? Think you can keep The Flick in your head? Want to tell pilots in aircraft of all sizes where to go? (ahem! :) Steve & Grant both applied for ATC and were both knocked back for a number of reasons. Fortunately, we know a couple of guys who weren’t.
Join [...]
15
Nov
2009
Episode 16: Rant on Steve, Rant on
Tags: 737, 747, 767, 777, A320, Adelaide, Air New Zealand, Airbus, Avalon, Boeing, Brisbane, DC10, F111, Fiire Bomber, fire, JAL, Jetstar, Jetstarised, Melbourne Airport, Narita, Newcastle, Owen Zupp, QANTAS, RBAR, RedBull AirRace, Sydney, tiger, V Australia, Victoria, Water Bomber, Wedgetail, YMML
Steve & Grant discuss all the latest news items that were of interest over the past couple of weeks. Steve also gets to have a few “c’est la vent” moments on some topics that were annoying him.
As if all that wasn’t enough, we also have a chat with Owen Zupp and reveal the winner of our first ever give away competition. Sorry, you’ll have to listen to the episode to [...]
11
Nov
2009
Running late, but not gone
This is a quick update for everyone who reads the blog & doesn’t just grab episodes via their podcatcher software (Hi gang! Great to have you here :)
We’re working on a couple of episodes at the moment, one of which we’re recording later tonight and should have out in a few days depending on:
a: How well the recording flows – we try to get rid of the “hang on, [...]
01
Nov
2009
Episode 15: And now for something completely different, here is the news
Tags: 737, 747, A320, A330, A380, A4, Air Traffic Control, Airbus, Airshow, ALEA, Beaver, Black Saturday, bush fire, Centenary, crash, DHC-2, Diggers Rest, evacuation, fire, fire bomber, GA, General Aviation, Geoff Dixon, Hobart, Houdini, Il76, Ilyushin, Jamestown, Jandakot, Jetstar, KC-30, maintenance, MH-60R, MRTT, New Zealand, Newcastle, nose wheel, Perth, QANTAS, RA-Aus, RAAF, RAN, RedBull AirRace, RFDS, RNZAF, Rocket, Rocket Lab, Royal Flying Doctor Service, Skyhawk, Socceroos, Super Beaver, Sydney, Tiger Airways, Victoria, Virgin Blue
We’re back to being our opiniated selves with a backlog of news stories to work through and discuss. Once again Bas Scheffers joins us for some of the news and to discuss a number of RA-Aus items. From Beavers to Tigers and even Kiwi Skyhawks doing battle with bureaucracy, we cover a diverse range of topics including:
QANTAS shareholders fail to block Dixon’s $3m payment
Shareholders blast Qantas over Dixon payout (ABC [...]
