Flying the Dreamliner 'Vegemite'

[esseeeayeenn]

I must have missed something - what is the "competition" prize - they choose your name(s)? No real prize, assign all rights etc to QF (in the fine print at the bottom of the linked page).

/Cynicism on/
Sounds like a free publicity attempt from QF

Well obvs.

 

[coriander]

Here's your list of Aussie icons.....
[video=youtube;VGW-WX77zjY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGW-WX77zjY[/video]

 

[coriander]

I missed the obvious one - "Aeroplane Jelly".

 

[AisleSeat]

What do they do when they order more?

Hell I dunno, I'm just the ideas man.

.........they can start using AC/DC song titles or something.

 

[docjames]

This list may help

Australian Geographic's 100 Aussie icons - Australian Geographic

numbers 1 and 2 seem unlikely to be used (!), and 3 and 4 are already on the 380!

 

[Limewood]

Should I say it "Pauline"

 

[Deleted member]

on a more serious note, my Pick of Australian of the century is Sir Edward Dunlop, affectionately known as "weary" anyone who doesn't know of this amazing man, skilled Physician, War Hero and sportsman, needs to take some time out. so my Pick for a name would be "Weary" But maybe that would be lost on many of our younger generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weary_Dunlop

 

[Danger]

But is that an Australian icon?

Hasn't Vegemite been foreign owned for a number of years?

on a more serious note, my Pick of Australian of the century is Sir Edward Dunlop, affectionately known as "weary" anyone who doesn't know of this amazing man, skilled Physician, War Hero and sportsman, needs to take some time out. so my Pick for a name would be "Weary" But maybe that would be lost on many of our younger generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weary_Dunlop

Weary works. Because that's exactly how passengers will feel when they get off the PER-LHR flight.

 

[whatmeworry]

Seeing QF is Sydney's airline, Sydney 1, Sydney 2, Sydney 3 and so on.

 

[AIRwin]

Seeing QF is Sydney's airline, Sydney 1, Sydney 2, Sydney 3 and so on.

But the Dreamliner will mostly be plying between LAX, MEL, PER and LHR initially?

 

[whatmeworry]

But the Dreamliner will mostly be plying between LAX, MEL, PER and LHR initially?

Just to rub it in no more A380 to LHR from MEL.

 

[SpudOz]

So that's one vote for Darryl Kerrigan, then?

In fact, I think that's the fleet sorted:

• Darryl Kerrigan
• Sal Kerrigan
• Dale Kerrigan
• Steve Kerrigan
• Wayne Kerrigan
• Tracey Petropoulous
• Dennis Denuto
• Lawrence Hammill QC,

What about Farouk??? Fighter bomber plane?

 

[juddles]

Unless they name one "juddles" I couldn't give a flying hoot what they name them.

 

[straitman]

add an indigenous flavour and call it "Vegemite Dreaming" ideal for a Dreamliner methinks

I vote for 'The Vege Liner'

 

[scaredeycat]

"Skippy''...

 

[jukebox333]

What about Farouk??? Fighter bomber plane?

I did think that through - possibly a lot more than the topic deserved (!), and thought the Kerrigans all get a nod first up, and that left two spots.

DD had to get tapped - because it's "the vibe" (just ask Cory), and Bud Tingwell is about as iconic as John Mellion and Jack Thompson, so he took the last slot.

 

[greyyy]

Lemon Meringue.

Too soon?

 

[drron]

I don't need the fame so if anyone wants to submit a name for AFF my choices include-
Kath Walker-indigenous poet and a major campaigner for the 1967 referendum.
Elizabeth Blackburn-a Tasmanian but also winner of the 2009 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine.The first Australian woman to win a Nobel prize and the only Tasmanian to do so.
Currently Director of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
And she should appeal to many here as she was dismissed by George W from the President's Council on Bioethics.

 

[ajw373]

Hasn't Vegemite been foreign owned for a number of years?.

Yes but soon if not already back in Australian hands owned by Bega cheese

Besides ownership doesn't make it any less of an Australian Icon anyway.

 

[ajw373]

Seeing QF is Sydney's airline, Sydney 1, Sydney 2, Sydney 3 and so on.

An ironic comment considering all the routes announced and rumoured thus far don't include Sydney in the mix!