Category Archives: Australia Desk

Episode 147: Attack of the Steves

Posted on May 17, 2011 by admin

Grant’s dumped Steve ‘cos he keeps going on about his L-39 ride, so he’s brought in Steven Force from the Airspeed podcast (aka Steve Tupper) to help out and keep the Steve Balance happening, although it may not work out … Continue reading →

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Episode 146: Rebranding your Virgin almost holds off Steve’s L-39 ride

Posted on May 10, 2011 by admin

Steve & Grant haven’t been up to much this week but there’s plenty to say about Virgin Blue, erm, that’s Virgin Australia now! Virgin Blue has renamed itself to Virgin Australia following serious negotiations with Richard Branson and Singapore Airlines. … Continue reading →

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Episode 145: A grab bag of news items and its David’s birthday

Posted on May 3, 2011 by admin

The boys are back after Easter and there’s a few news topics to cover: Two guys have flown a single engined aircraft from the USA to Australia, replicating Sir Charles Kingsford Smith’s flight as part of a fund raiser for … Continue reading →

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Episode 142: Grant falls for an April Fool prank by Australian Business Traveller

Posted on April 5, 2011 by admin

Steve had to be up early this morning as he & Grant joined Steve Tupper and other podcasters on the annual Not at Sun N Fun show. That hasn’t stopped them getting together later that evening to review the latest … Continue reading →

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Episode 140: Fuel Surcharges and Price Fixing Freight Cartels

Posted on March 22, 2011 by admin

It’s a cracker Autumn in Melbourne with nine days in a row of flyable weather for the hot air balloons over the city. We give a shout out to Wheelies with Wings which is the Australian organisation that gets physically … Continue reading →

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Episode 139: Post Avalon Blues

Posted on March 15, 2011 by admin

Steve’s bored this week being back at work after the high of covering the Avalon International Airshow last week and Grant’s pretty much the same. Fortunately there’s some Down Under aviation news items to cover that can distract them. Speaking … Continue reading →

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Episode 138: Looking at Avalon from a KC-135 Boomer’s couch

Posted on March 8, 2011 by admin

Recorded live on the last day of the Avalon International Airshow and the boys are in the back end of a KC-135 (serial 62-3575) with Grant lying on the Boomer’s couch looking out at the people hiding from the heat … Continue reading →

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Episode 137: Christchurch earthquake shuts down Kiwi ATC

Posted on March 1, 2011 by admin

The big news this week is that another large earthquake has hit Christchurch causing significant damage and fatalities. It also shut down New Zealand’s ATC system which is run from a single centre in Christchurch, effectively turning the whole country … Continue reading →

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Episode 136: Qantas and Jetstar are backing down on bad ideas

Posted on February 22, 2011 by admin

The boys are going to try for a shorter OzDesk to say thanks to Max for running the full length version of the previous week’s segment, rather than the cut down version. Lets see how they do with: Jetstar are … Continue reading →

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Episode 135: Qantas disputes getting more intense

Posted on February 15, 2011 by admin

It’s a busy news week with lots happening so this week’s OzDesk is going to be longer than normal. Hopefully the Geeks will forgive us as it’s important aviation news from Down Under. Qantas is increasing their fuel surcharges due … Continue reading →

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