Hi All,
To another cargo plane that turned into a flight simulator. The amazing story of the crash and crew that survived all be it in varying stages of severe injury apart from an Flight Engineer having a check flight who was standing behind the aircraft Flight Engineer. This accident with comments and pictures are at this link http://www.cargolaw.com/2006nightmare_c5-b.html
Galaxy C-5B – 40059.
Geoff.
Hi All,
To a famous plane that flew under Sydney bridge Q for Queenie 22nd of this month will be the 74th anniversary.
On this day, Lancaster B111 ED930 (“Q for Queenie”), with the RAAF tail number A66-1, made an unauthorised flight under the Sydney Harbour Bridge while on a public relations tour. Originally sent to Australia as a prototype for local production (which did not eventuate), the aircraft was used after its arrival in June 1943 to promote sales of war savings bonds around Australia. “Queenie” arrived at Richmond on 20 October in preparation for carrying out a series of exhibition flights over Sydney. During one of these sorties the crew, captained by Flight Lieutenant Peter Isaacson, decided to ‘buzz’ the building housing the headquarters of RAAF Eastern Area at Edgecliff, on Double Bay, before taking A66-1 beneath the harbour bridge—in defiance of a 1931 regulation banning such flights. The Lancaster was not the first aircraft (nor even the last) to break this prohibition, but it was the largest.
Geoff.
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