Plane Crazy Down Under

For the majority of our listeners it’s warm and getting warmer down here in the Southern Summer with Christmas just around the corner. Not so in London where it’s bleak and somewhat miserable (and that’s the economy, let alone the weather). Saj Ahmad from FleetBuzz Editorial is based in London and recently returned from the scorching skies of Dubai where he’d been attending the Dubai Airshow 2009. Saj generously took [...]

 

 PCDU Episode 021 [98:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (602)

We thought we’d have this episode out within a few days of our previous one, but there was so many news items to review, so much to discuss and so many bits to splice together that it took a whole week to bring it to you. Weighing in at almost 2 hours, this episode has interviews, GA, follow ups and much much more.

 

 Plane Crazy Down Under - Episode 008 [109:06m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (580)

Steve’s back from his trip to the USA and, despite some jet lag woes, he’s in the recording studio and the banter is flowing in our longest episode yet. Sadly, the first 15 minutes sound like Grant’s testing NASA’s new Interplanetary Internet and experiencing a really crappy connection. Not to worry, it soon clears up and the rest of the episode quite clearly reveals our usual commentary on this week’s [...]

 

 Plane Crazy Down Under - Episode 005 [75:48m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (594)

We were a little delayed because Grant was trying to do it all this week, but better late than never. With Steve in the USA, Grant was flying solo and discovering that he missed having someone to put the gear up on take off.
This week’s episode includes the following topics:

Air New Zealand joins Tiger to say that Delta teaming up with V Australia (Delta V) is bad, but QANTAS stays [...]

 

 Plane Crazy Down Under - Episode 003 [23:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (526)

Surprisingly less than one week after our first episode was released, we’re releasing our second episode. During this one, we discuss the following items:

Singapore Airlines to fly A380 to Melbourne

Superjumbo threat to Qantas stepped up (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)

British Airways cutting flights to Australia

British Airways to cut flights to Australia (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)

Garuda ends their only flight to Darwin

Plea for Garuda to retain Darwin flights (Daniel Bourchier [...]

 

 Plane Crazy Down Under - Episode 002 [34:27m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (624)

Weighing in at a whole 27 minutes and 18 seconds, here’s the first episode of the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast. During this episode, we discuss the following news items:

Emirates EK407 tailstrike – the Captain tells his story and we comment on fatigue issues
The RAAF’s first F/A-18F Super Hornet rolls off the production line plus comments on the pending F-111 & DH4C Caribou retirements
Tiger Airways adds a 7th aircraft to [...]

 

 Plane Crazy Down Under - Episode 001 [27:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (827)