Tag Archives: 747

Episode 614: The last Qantas 747 has left the party

Posted on July 29, 2020 by admin

Despite the best efforts of COVID to turn Victoria into Sick-toria (the infectious state) and Melbourne being locked down like East Berlin, the boys have managed to get another Oz Desk produced for Max to (hopefully :) ) allow into … Continue reading →

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Episode 357: Baby Herc arrives as another 747 retires

Posted on July 1, 2015 by admin

Grant’s holding together with cold & flu medicine long enough to get an Aus Desk recorded with Steve covering: The RAAF’s first C27J Spartan (the ‘baby Hercules’) arrives in Australia BAE Systems gets their contract with the Royal Singaporean Air … Continue reading →

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Episode 354: Breathalysed on a scale of 1 to Rob Mark :)

Posted on June 17, 2015 by admin

In order to prevent a Rob Mark moment on the Oz Desk, Grant has to pass Steve’s breath-a-lyzer test before he can join in reporting on: Qantas & American are teaming up on SYD-LAX route allowing Qantas to redeploy some … Continue reading →

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Episode 341: Grand Prix handling displays are better than the cars :)

Posted on March 18, 2015 by admin

Grant’s back from the Canberra Balloon Spectacular where he’s had a blast playing with balloons including one that’s basically a chair lift hung under a balloon envelope. Woo hoo :) Meanwhile, Melbourne has hosted the Formula 1 Grand Prix but … Continue reading →

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Episode 340: Pilatus PC24 is Super Sexy!

Posted on March 11, 2015 by admin

Steve is solo this week as Grant returns from hot air balloon operations interstate and was planning to chat with a guest about the arrival of Qantas 747-400 VH-OJA into the Illawarra Regional Airport in Wollongong but unfortunately the guest … Continue reading →

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Episode 325: Jabiru Engine Issues

Posted on November 19, 2014 by admin

Steve & Grant bring you the Australia Sports Desk report … ooops, hang on, that’s the Australia Aviation News Desk report – sorry about that :) CASA are all but grounding aircraft with Jabiru engines due to 40 engine failures … Continue reading →

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Episode 300: Back to Qantas and the F35

Posted on May 21, 2014 by admin

Congratulations all round for the Airplane Geeks team as they’ve hit 300 episodes and “Woo hoo” to us too as we’ve been along for a big chunk of the ride too. Of course, given all the re-takes we’ve done and … Continue reading →

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Episode 294: Droning on 787s

Posted on April 9, 2014 by admin

Grant’s back on deck (mostly) after an intense couple of weeks dealing with health issues and a CASA audit. He joins Steve to review the following news items: We’ve got more 787s coming to Melbourne: Royal Brunei have started flying … Continue reading →

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Episode 289: We’re stuffed and there’s more to come

Posted on March 5, 2014 by admin

Team PCDU have been at the RAAF’s Centenary of Military Aviation airshow at Point Cook and Grant’s been busy schmoozing in addition to the interviews the team have been busy recording. Some of the news items this week include: The … Continue reading →

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Episode 285: Steve’s Back & Wheely Engaged

Posted on February 5, 2014 by admin

At last Steve’s back on deck and Grant is very happy that he’s offered to do the editing. YAY! Once Steve manages to squeeze his funky wheel chair in behind the studio desk, the boys start chatting about the news … Continue reading →

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