Wow - reminds me of my uni days in the 70's.  One of my lecturers at Monash Elec Eng designed and built an incredible sound system of a valve amplifier that could direct drive (ie no step up transformers to introduce distortion) a pair of also home made electrostatic speakers at +/- 3500 Vo...

agree nice livery.  Having looked at their history before I wondered if they basically used what European Airlines had already painted eg on VH-OZQ (which was G-GPFI) with minimal changes (ie adding chequered flag and "Oz" ) or whether it was the other way round.   Not sure ab...

interesting background on Qantas decision making.Was there also a scheduling issue on supersonic flights over populated areas and the need for a relatively indirect route between Australia and Europe compared to say the almost completely oceanic Atlantic route?On my one Concorde flight (LHR to Wa...

hardly pint-sized for an exec jet

haven't read all the posts, so maybe already said, but my 2 cents worth...I don't see why Australians can't travel to countries that will allow us in, with whatever conditions they wish to impose.  If that means 14 days quarantine or able to stand on one leg for 60 seconds, and I can accept ...