Aviation Forum / Country Specific / Australian Group / March 2009

Huge publicity coup for Branson's Virgin Group securing a partnership with the
Brawn GP team then watching Jenson Button and Reubens Barrichello come home P1
and P2 in the first F1 of the 2009 season at Albert Park.

My A380 QF11 departs Sydney at 1305 to Los Angeles.  I arrive 1150
QF517 from Brisbane 737 800 on a Wednesday.  I want to take part in
the Tax Refund Scheme.  Besides going to the loo on the 737 before
landing is there anything else I can do make sure I get my refund

While the security people at Sydney were frisking passengers for nail
scissors, a fight breaks out in the check-in area and a person is
murdered. Many of the people involved get away in taxis.
This is probaby as close as we will come to a terrorist attack (some

Go here for some stop-action, truly amazing photos of  birds
 http://www.miguellasa.com/photos/sspopup.mg?AlbumID=1001578

Engine parts from an Arrow Cargo company DC-10 fell on 22 houses, a church and a
car in the Amazon jungle town of Manaus in northern Brazil on Thursday.
The flight continued on two engines.
Video of the largest piece here - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7967098.stm

The NTSB have issued an update which includes inter alia -
"A preliminary examination of the airplane systems has
revealed no indication of pre-impact system failures or
anomalies."

http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,27753,25233569-462,00.html
QANTAS will slash a third of its senior executives to save $24 million a year as
it seeks to offset a huge earnings slump caused by the worst downturn in
aviation history.

Ryanair air hostess Edita Schindlerova exposed as porn star
A BUDGET airline stewardess will keep her job despite being exposed as a
part-time porn star.
Ryanair hostess Edita Schindlerova, 22, secretly appears on X-rated

Do The Major Airlines eg (CX, BA, JAL) still have polar flights.
On my last trip to LHR we flew the GCR instead of Transpolar.
Any reason for this. Thirty years ago I flew Pan AM from LHR to SFO
transpolar.

17 people on the plane died. There was no indication of how many were dead on
the ground.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/numerous-children-dead-in-us-plane-crash-20090323-96
4q.html

Thursday, 19 February 2009
016/2009
RETIREMENT OF THE DHC-4 CARIBOU
The Minister for Defence, the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP, today announced the

http://www.smartraveller.gov.au/zw-cgi/view/Advice/United_Arab_Emirates
Soon its going to be "Do Not Travel" due to this -
Dubai bans nudity, dancing and holding hands
http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/dubai-bans-nudity-dancing-and-holdin
g-hands-20090317-90cp.html

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25178143-5001028,00.html
Seems to me that you don't actually need x-ray machines that can detect
dangerous liquids.
You merely have to claim that you have them.

A Christian minister has stated that these fires are somehow "God's
retribution" for  Victoria passing legislation last year
decriminalising abortion?
Quite right indeed, Our Almighty Celtic God is completely livid at