Ah, the memories!

[Ikara]

Some of us - well me - can actually remember most of this!

And you young whipper snappers complain about booking systems (check it out at about 60 secs) and baggage allowances and check out the simulator, and ofcourse we really did have "J' and "F" lounges (at the 8 minute mark - sixpence for a barista coffee in the "J" lounge and sit downs in the "F" lounge). Stop complaining!

Now you know why I have a 00008xx_ FF number.

Enjoy - flying with TAA which became Australian Airlines and then became Qantas.

Flown 'em all.

http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/g2_g4hh8sKM&feature=g-vrec?autoplay=1

JB

 

[TheEmu]

Some of us - well me - can actually remember most of this!

And you young whipper snappers complain about booking systems (check it out at about 60 secs) and baggage allowances and check out the simulator, and ofcourse we really did have "J' and "F" lounges (at the 8 minute mark - sixpence for a barista coffee in the "J" lounge and sit downs in the "F" lounge). Stop complaining!

Now you know why I have a 00008xx_ FF number.

Enjoy - flying with TAA which became Australian Airlines and then became Qantas.

Flown 'em all.

http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/g2_g4hh8sKM&feature=g-vrec?autoplay=1

JB

Oh that is just fabulous!
Thanks for posting the link - it does ​take me back - not quite as far as 1954 but close enough!

 

[Hvr]

Oh that is just fabulous!
Thanks for posting the link - it does ​take me back - not quite as far as 1954 but close enough!

I agree, that is an awesome video.

 

[drron]

Not that old but do remember flying TAA F SYD-POM.And then a TAA DC3 from Moresby to Honiara via Lae,Rabaul and Bouganville.all in 1969.Sounds like a mileage run doesn't it?

 

[PeteJ]

Ah yes, the memories. My first flight was in a TAA DC3 many years ago. I probably still have my TAA Junior Flyers "wings" somewhere. I liked the footage of the Link Trainer. Thanks Ikara for posting this link.

 

[JohnM]

Great stuff!

My first flight was in an MMA DC3 in about April 1961. The plan was to fly Norseman-Esperance-Perth but after Esperance a cyclone approaching Perth caused diversion to Kalgoorlie overnight. It ended up being a great adventure for young me and my even younger brother travelling unaccompanied back home to parents from Granny's! I recall that MMA put us up overnight in the Palace Hotel in Kalgoorlie.

 

[samh004]

That was an awesome video!

 

[TheEmu]

Photo taken at Ingham Wings & Wheels, 2011.
My very first flight was taken from Ingham aerodrome in 1968 in a Piper Tri-Pacer belonging to a friend of the family. Got plenty of stick-time in that lovely little thing as a 9yo.
First commercial flight from the same airfield not too long after in a TAA Fokker F27 Friendship service. Plenty of coughpit visits
Both TAA & Ansett ANA had twice-daily "milk-run" services through-out the 60s up and down the coast.
We used to hop Ingham-Townsville-Proserpine-Mackay-Rockhampton and reverse going to and from (boarding) school.
If we were lucky we'd get a DC-9 or (deep breath)…a 727!!! "direct" TSV-ROK. ("We got the JET today, Dad!")
Wonder if I can claim all those missing points and SCs…?

 

[TheEmu]

Ah yes, the memories. My first flight was in a TAA DC3 many years ago. I probably still have my TAA Junior Flyers "wings" somewhere. I liked the footage of the Link Trainer. Thanks Ikara for posting this link.

The RAAF Museum at RAAF Base Garbutt (TSV) has a working Link Trainer which I was lucky enough to 'fly' a few years ago.

 

[tuapekastar]

Great find in any case Ikara, but especially so for me. The aircraft electrician at 05:36 is my dad!

 

[straitman]

The RAAF Museum at RAAF Base Garbutt (TSV) has a working Link Trainer which I was lucky enough to 'fly' a few years ago.

Gosh,

The link trainer was old when I learnt to fly 45 years ago :!:

 

[Ikara]

Great find in any case Ikara, but especially so for me. The aircraft electrician at 05:36 is my dad!

Delighted to be of assistance.

JB

 

[wazza888]

Not that old but do remember flying TAA F SYD-POM.And then a TAA DC3 from Moresby to Honiara via Lae,Rabaul and Bouganville.all in 1969.Sounds like a mileage run doesn't it?

hahaha .... vague memories of growing up in Rabaul and flying to SYD. I think it was DC3 from Rabaul - Lae - Port Moresby and DC9 onwards. I was very little then. lol

 

[Paddy55]

Awesome video... loved the reservation system :shock:

 

[TheEmu]

Gosh,

The link trainer was old when I learnt to fly 45 years ago :!:

It's definitely still a runner.
Went down today to make sure, and was assured it is still 'flown' on occasion. (Can be organised… )

 

[DeKa]

For those of you on mobile devices here's a URL that works
http://youtube.com/watch?v=g2_g4hh8sKM

Does anyone know what these 'googleapis' URLs that have started appearing in various places are for? Very annoying...

 

[totd]

That is an awesome video. Way too young to remember flying DC-2s or 3s... but we do have one in my home town.

It's amazing to see how familiar many of the concepts around flying are. From the looks of it the in-flight experience would have been quite recognisable to a modern traveller... the only real change being the toys.

 

[eastwest101]

Pretty cool film. Are you sure the scene at 01:07 isn't the VA Sabre Transition team?

 

[ckck]

Awesome video... loved the reservation system :shock:

To think that I just booked by most recent flight from my iPad, late one night while lying in bed.

 

[totd]

Pretty cool film. Are you sure the scene at 01:07 isn't the VA Sabre Transition team?

I was actually thinking the same thing.