The Great Southern Land
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Here is a picture of Dudley and I pedaling as fast as we can trying to catch us a whale, Ah....but no luck!
Willy
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We put Adelade behind us and headed across the bay to Port Lincoln. Great flight even if I did almost run off the end of the runway on landing. Hope there's an Autozone here so I can get some new brake pads.
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Willy
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A couple of shots of our Coober Pedy arrival
It's out there somewheres
I don't have the scenery installed, so it's kind of barren here except for the gravel runway and ramp, a fuel hose reel and the perimiter fence. Maybe the terminal is underground as well.
It's out there somewheres
I don't have the scenery installed, so it's kind of barren here except for the gravel runway and ramp, a fuel hose reel and the perimiter fence. Maybe the terminal is underground as well.
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O.T. I had to laugh when I saw this. Actually I didn't notice it until one of the guys working on restoring the planes at the RAAF Amberly Aviation Heritage Center pointed it out to us. This museum is open to the public only once a month, but is available on Tuesdays and Thursday to people who have access to the RAAF base, which we did. Consequently, we were the only "tourists" there when we visited on the day before we left Australia, and a couple of the men working on various restoration projects gave us a private tour. It was very cool. One of the planes there is this one, a DHC-4 "Boo". See the round yellow things just in front of each landing gear strut? Cement blocks! Placed there to prevent the Boo and other planes parked outdoors from blowing away when the big wind storms come through!
Peacemaker
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PRB, that's a great museum. But I must admit its been a very long long time now since I was there (15 years or more.) I was in the Raaf air cadets. They were restoring a Catalina and a A-20. We crawled though the Cat. The radio operators position up in the Wing fillet was a cool spot. Had a few rides in the back of various Caribou's. They were a personal favourite. Spent many afternoons sat down by the runway watching F-111's and KC-707's doing touch and go's. Glad you had a nice trip to Brissy (my hometown).
AussieMan
SOH Staff .."Bartender"
I was there in January 2001 and was shown right through the area. I did not see a Catalina anywhere nor was there an A-20. An A-20 was being restored at Amberley for the RAAF Museum at Point Cook. There was a Beaufort fuselage and several other pieces of the Beaufort but no larger aircraft.
Peacemaker
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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/raafmuseum/exhibitions/restoration/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.
https://www.airforce.gov.au/raafmuseum/exhibitions/restoration/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.
