Interestingly...I was looking at random pages of this big beaut (coffee table) book... Australia Through Time.
I came upon this which stopped me to ponder... before 2020 I wouldn’t have given it huge significant attention... probably... “oh yeah, 1947... after the war...” and looked in at other historical stuff of its time.

But .... it kind of just stood out... and I felt some sting reading it at this point in time...comparing what happened then, such amazing achievements, to how it’s all gone pear shaped now.

Qantas... just one of airline companies parking their big passenger planes in a desert for a number of years.
My daughter in law no longer working in International First Class .... from serving passengers, to a casual job now serving customers at a supermarket.

I’m reflecting... this time last year, and I’m so very, very glad... going business class to Singapore.... that was always a “bucket list” thing I wanted achieved... it was so good!
Thank goodness doing that when we could... it’s non existent now 

If anyone wants to share their memories of interesting plane trips....
I have a few... and the airports I liked, and hated.

For now, that 1947 news snippet.

I remember having a couple of flights on a dc3 when i was a kid, a beast of a plane and have loved flying ever since, i did many flights on the fokker frendship fifo at the end of their life and always enjoyable but i always tried to get a window seat by the wing so i could keep an eye on the engines and to see if any rivets were getting to loose, have been in lots of light air crafts with a few hairy experiences and even a flight on a learjet, best blast ever, it was like blasting off in a rocket and the decent was like we were going straight down.

My next flight is going to be in a glider, that would be the ultimate for me.

JaSin... back in the late 90s in a family trip to NZ, I had pre booked a small plane flight to go over the fjords.
But the weather turned bad and it was cancelled.
At that time, a lot of small plane accidents/deaths happened in that area on those flights....
I have found, I’m not a big fan of small planes, after all.... I like big planes no problems, but I can’t help feel more nervous on a smaller plane.

Didn’t know I had that problem until I was in a smaller plane.

Yes I still went on a sea plane in Alaska....but felt freaky about it the whole time.

I have been up in a helicopter over the Great Barrier Reef and I found I am okay with Helicopters.

Don’t understand my slight fear of the smaller planes. Weird.

Johnnie wrote on Aug 25^th, 2020 at 5:37pm:


OMG  I can just see you movie star like Tom Cruise in Top Gun 

*JaSin recedes to the dark cold depths of the sea.

Well I’m glad some found it interesting about the finding of Amelia Earhart’s plane that mysteriously vanished… and the reason why it did.

Here you go, Sophia.

https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1766786064

It's on page 2 of the Technically Speaking section.

I believe the search is going to be resumed again maybe towards the end of this year when the weather improves.

Sophia wrote on Jul 18^th, 2026 at 6:38pm:


No problem. 

I didn't do a search, I just remembered it was in the Technically Speaking section so I started on page 1 and went back from there then I saw it about halfway down page 2.

I've never been able to get the Search function here to work properly either, I gave up on it ages ago.. lol.

Sophia wrote on Aug 25^th, 2020 at 5:12pm:


On a trip to a mountain lodge I flew in a beaver seaplane out of Anchorage and returned in a Otter seaplane and coming back the pilot noticed a pod of beluga whales in Cook inlet. He circled around and came in low giving me the best chance to photograph them. One of the most amazing encounters I've had.

Sophia wrote on Jul 18^th, 2026 at 6:26pm:


Bits of MH370 washed up near Reunion.

I doubt they will find it planes aren't built strong to withstand impacts they have maximum take off weight which means adding strength decreases payload.

It would have broken up into small pieces some would sink the composite panels would have floated away.
The remaining bits would be small ocean is huge being on the bottom makes search even harder.

Baronvonrort wrote on Jul 18^th, 2026 at 11:42pm:


There must be more body of the plane with the black box somewhere. Probably hidden under ocean sandy currents by now.

But that ocean sound machine is interesting … another clue could come of that at a later date.