Hi all members here!!
Just wanted to introduce myself and tell you just a little bit about me and my aviation interests.
I am 47 years old, have been strongly interested in aviation since I was about 7-8 years old. I worked airside at Adelaide Airport as a trainee linesman as a temporary staff member during 1984-85. I was lucky to get a job as a Catering truck driver (hi-lift) scissor lift driver in early 86 with Ansett Airlines, doing catering on a variety of different aircraft types up until the collapse of Ansett Australia in Sept, 2001. I was able to get some part time work at the airport after the Ansett demise, then got a job with Alpha flight services as a catering truck driver doing catering om Malaysia Airlines 747-400 and mostly 777-200 aircraft. I have a nice collection of models, about 500, most are in 400 scale and quite a few other scales as well. I also enjoy aviation photography and still go spotting occasionally. I left the airline catering industry after a fued with management over being on salary and working excessive extra hours per week and not getting paid for it, nor getting time off in lieu of the 50 plus hours a week I was doing some/most weeks.
I live in the coastal suburb of Henley Beach, About 8-9 kilometers from the Adelaide town centre. SOUTH AUSTRALIA
I am active on a number of other forums, 400 scale hangar (nearly 11,000 posts). DAC, Scale aircraft forum, Wings 900, Airline Buzz and Sydney airport message board. My other interest is collecting model earthmovers.
Anyway, thats just a little bit about me and I look forward to contributing here on a regular basis. Steve K:)
By: DazDaMan - 6th August 2010 at 07:03
Welcome aboard, Steve. 🙂
By: Moggy C - 5th August 2010 at 14:57
Hi Steve and welcome.
The rule here is not to quote in full the post you are responding too, particularly when it is directly above your response.
Some of the old hands do forget this from time to time.
I hope you enjoy it here
Moggy
Moderator
By: steve k - 5th August 2010 at 13:33
Hello and welcome, Steve! As one of the forum’s resident photography geeks and someone who has quite a soft spot for older scanned photos I’m looking forward to seeing a few of yours from down under! 🙂
Paul
Hi mate and thanks for the welcome, if you would like to, PM me youre email address and I can send a few (LOT) your way as im hopeless at up loading onto forums, have quite a few aussie DC9, 727, Viscount, Electra and many others and are still scanning more and more each day, some are real beauties, Many came from other people so im not sure who to thank for many of them, but certainly a good number of mine are in the mix as well. I suspect many were slides done onto print but they look pretty reasonable anyway. 🙂
By: PMN - 5th August 2010 at 13:12
Hello and welcome, Steve! As one of the forum’s resident photography geeks and someone who has quite a soft spot for older scanned photos I’m looking forward to seeing a few of yours from down under! 🙂
Paul
By: steve k - 5th August 2010 at 11:50
Thanks all, hope to be around for a long time here and im sure as long as im welcome, it will be a lot of fun and educational too. The past couple of days Ive been scanning old airliner photos so hope to post some up here in coming weeks. Mainly 50’s-70’s civil airliners operated in Australia. 🙂
By: mike currill - 3rd August 2010 at 22:00
Well, maybe he needs no encouragement to stay with the forum but I thought I would give him a general hint that it’s a good place to hang out if you are in any way aviation minded. I certainly have no regrets about my time on here even if I don’t always agree with everyones point of view.
By: Flygirl - 3rd August 2010 at 21:11
Spot on ! 😀
By: mike currill - 3rd August 2010 at 19:45
Welcome to the madhouse, hope you enjoy your time here. There is a wealth of information scattered among our forumites and they are always willing to answer questions no matter how stupid they may seem to you. Just have the courage to ask, the answer is usually forthcoming in a matter of a few hours-sometimes minutes.
By: MSR777 - 3rd August 2010 at 10:47
Welcome Steve. Hope you enjoy the forum, a good bunch of people on here 😀
By: Newforest - 3rd August 2010 at 08:24
FAQ, attachments and images, suggest using Photobucket or similar.:)
By: steve k - 3rd August 2010 at 08:12
Thanks mate, I do have a few but need to learn how to upload them and make them bigger and so on, might take a few days but will get some up from my home airport YPAD Adelaide International Airport. South Australia.
I have many airside shots taken since 83-84 ish and happy to show them to you all. Steve:)
By: Newforest - 3rd August 2010 at 08:01
Hi Steve, Welcome to the Forum, nice to see a member disclosing his location, too many seem to think it is a state secret. We look forward to your contributions, got any photos? 🙂
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