Visited an old Australian lady today

[Tote]

Beachcomber is on display at Solent Skies museum in Southampton.

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Well worth a visit if you are in the area, got to sit in the captain's seat. Lots of interesting stuff jammed in a small museum. we spent about an hour an a half there.


Regards,
Tote

[Mick_Marsh]

Ten days to fly from Rose Bay to Southhampton. At least you knew you were traveling a long way.

What is an old QANTAS plane doing over there? Shouldn't it be here?

[ramblingboy42]

it had Ansett painted on rear fuselage? Threw me a bit.

and after another look Ansett GSE

[p38arover]

It's ex-Ansett. I was there a few years back. The photo of it landing at Lord Howe was taken by a friend here in western Sydney.

The plane that had me drooling was the beautiful Supermarine S6 seaplane (same as the Schneider Trophy winner) - you can see it in the bottom RH corner of the second pic above.

I'll add a pic later when I get to my PC

[Mick_Marsh]

And here's me thinking the TEAL Sunderlands were sold to QANTAS. Apparrently, this one wasn't.

VH-BRC Short S-25 Sandringham

[Hugh Jars]

This is where they used to land at Lord Howe. (My photo)
The lagoon, not the runway

[Ferret]

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FIL used to fly that on the LHI route.

[cripesamighty]

LHI doesn't look like a good place to undershoot or overshoot the runway....

[DiscoMick]

I was very nervous when we came in to land on that runway. I can also advise that taking off is an interesting experience.

[Hugh Jars]

I was very nervous when we came in to land on that runway. I can also advise that taking off is an interesting experience.

Especially when both windsocks are pointing at one another. Was always quite limiting out of there, so a standing start/full power takeoff was the norm.


North Head (I think) positioning for RWY28