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PostPosted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 9:12 pm
by emfrat
This may be of interest to some here. 'Vincent' is a well known name in Oz and NZ aviation, but I don't know if this gentleman is from that family.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/business/a...925-10m2p1.html

PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 7:08 am
by Ian Warren
Now part off Australia I have not stopped into, wonder If they are thinking off adding military type .... and hey money spinner public tours ! cool.gif

PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 7:11 pm
by emfrat
Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Oct 16 2014,5:08 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Now part off Australia I have not stopped into, wonder If they are thinking off adding military type .... and hey money spinner public tours ! cool.gif

Most places in NZ would be closer than Alice Springs, for me as well as you ....

PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 8:19 pm
by Ian Warren
emfrat wrote:
QUOTE (emfrat @ Oct 16 2014,8:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Most places in NZ would be closer than Alice Springs, for me as well as you ....

Hmm , think off the truck ride out there .... beer every hour .. slow smooth cruise into Alice then off to the park !

PostPosted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 2:40 pm
by Chairman
emfrat wrote:
QUOTE (emfrat @ Oct 15 2014,10:12 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
This may be of interest to some here. 'Vincent' is a well known name in Oz and NZ aviation, but I don't know if this gentleman is from that family.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/business/a...925-10m2p1.html

QUOTE (Brisbane Times)
Asia Pacific Aircraft Storage's managing director, Tom Vincent, said he expected at least 15 planes at the site by the end of the year.[/quote]
"Tom Vincent" isn't exactly an unknown name in these parts either. That's quite a step up from flying 1900's laugh.gif

(but I asked, and no it's not lol)

PostPosted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 3:05 pm
by NZ255
Haha, I think it might be another Tom smile.gif

PostPosted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 8:01 pm
by emfrat
Chairman wrote:
QUOTE (Chairman @ Oct 18 2014,12:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
(but I asked, and no it's not lol)

It is good to have that on record. I do some work at a museum in Bris-bunn, focused on the 'convict era' from 1824-1842. We are finding it hard to establish just when Moreton Bay Penal Colony became the town of Brisbane - there must have been legal instruments to make that happen, and they were probably enacted in 1840-1842. And yet we know of a letter from the NSW Colonial Botanist to the NSW Colonial Secretary, dated 1826, and saying "The gardens I established at the Brisbane settlement are flourishing" ... surrender.gif

PostPosted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 8:14 pm
by zk2704
Now, finally a aircraft graveyard has opened in YBAS (Alice Springs Airport), what if I suggest that a ANZ 737 shall go to that aircraft graveyard, how about that?

PostPosted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 8:59 pm
by Splitpin
zk2704 wrote:
QUOTE (zk2704 @ Oct 18 2014,9:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Now, finally a aircraft graveyard has opened in YBAS (Alice Springs Airport), what if I suggest that a ANZ 737 shall go to that aircraft graveyard, how about that?

I agree Zain , and , in time , to a real museum here in NZ.(because , we dont have any at the moment)

PostPosted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 12:32 am
by HamiltonWest
zk2704 wrote:
QUOTE (zk2704 @ Oct 18 2014,9:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Now, finally a aircraft graveyard has opened in YBAS (Alice Springs Airport), what if I suggest that a ANZ 737 shall go to that aircraft graveyard, how about that?


http://www.mrcaviation.blogspot.co.nz/2014...ned-for-zk.html

PostPosted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 6:43 pm
by zk2704
HamiltonWest wrote:
QUOTE (HamiltonWest @ Oct 19 2014,1:32 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>


Nice link Ham, now we still have the life of the 737 CLASSICS here in NZ.