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Tag Archives: engine
Episode 734: Bonza, a smattering of military and Qantas maintenance woes
After the Geeks asking how long the boys have been producing the OzDesk, they start with a bit of history and how they started submitting news via email, then recording separately until, on Episode 52 in June 2009, the first … Continue reading
Posted in Australia Desk
Tagged 717, 737, ADF, Auckland, Blackhawk, Bonza, Brisbane, Canberra, engine, Fiji, flaps, history, Holsworth, maintenance, management, mayday, MH60, MH60M, MRH90, Oakey, Proserpine, Qantas, QantasLink, Sunshine Coast, Sydney, Townsville, travel agents, UK, Ukraine, Whitsundays, wrong
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Episode 325: Jabiru Engine Issues
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
Posted in Australia Desk
Tagged 747, Air Force One, Amberley, Brisbane, CASA, copilot, engine, failure, G20, grounding, Jabiru, Marine One, New Zealand, Obama, pilots, Qantas, RAAF, retirement, son, spottersmag, summit
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Episode 299: A Cirrus CAPS deployment gets Grant on the Radio
The boys are back & recovered from working at Wings Over Illawarra 2014 last week and they’re reporting on the Australian Federal Government’s recent approval to purchase an additional 58 F35s, taking our total confirmed purchase to 72 aircraft. Meanwhile, … Continue reading
Posted in Australia Desk
Tagged 2014, 2UE, CAPS, Cirrus, crash, Daily Telegraph, engine, F35, failure, Koz, Kym Osley, media, news.com.au, RAAF, Rob Mark, SR22, star, Tony Abbott
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Episode 282: Not Hot Enough in Alice?
With Steve just about to go into the surgeon’s hands, Grant calls on ATC Ben, Jonesy and Kathy Mexted to help out. As you might expect, the result is a bit of a roller coaster as the team talks about: … Continue reading
Posted in Australia Desk
Tagged 77SQN, 787, 787-9, A320, Air New Zealand, AIR9000, AIR9000 Phase 7, Alice Springs, ANZ, Boeing, downgrade, engine, failure, helicopter, Melbourne, Moody's, Nevada, NoSteve, Qantas, RAAF, Red Flag, Thales, training, USA, YMML
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Episode 210: Good News, Everyone!
We’ve got some good news on the maintenance & engineering front so we figured it was too important to leave to later: TAE (a wholly owned subsidiary of Air New Zealand) are opening new workshops in Brisbane & Adelaide to … Continue reading
Posted in Australia Desk
Tagged 747, A380, Air New Zealand, Alan Joyce, annual report, APU, ASK, available seat kilometres, Clive Palmer, engine, engineers, Exercise Pitch Black 12, F18, Goods & Services Tax, GST, Jurassic Park, KC30, LAX, loss, maintenance, MRO, MRTT, probe & drogue, profit, pyjamas, Qantas, RAAF, research, resorts, study, Sunshine Coast, TAE, Tanker, theme park, tourists, turbine, University of Sydney
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Episode 147: Attack of the Steves
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
Posted in Australia Desk
Tagged 6SQN, Acro Camp, Airspeed, Bersama Shield, Catalina, Delta, Delta-V, E190, engine, exercise, F18, F18F+, fire, Kaman, Malaysia, propboy, Qantas, RAAF, RNZAF, Seasprite, steve balance, Steve Tupper, Steven Force, strike, technical issues, unions, Virgin Australia, WW2
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Episode 136: Qantas and Jetstar are backing down on bad ideas
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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Tagged A380, back down, baggage fees, booking system, business class, crash, engine, fault, fuel costs, fuel surcharge, future, growth, hell, Jetstar, meltdown, middle seats, non-reclining seats, oil, passengers, profit, Qantas, staff, Trent, unions, Virgin Blue
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