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Seoul seeking

The flight from Sydney to Seoul aboard Qantas QF87. Read more

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September 26, 2023

Korea 2023

Flying, Qantas, Seoul, South Korea
Parap it’s time to go home

I wake in time to see the sun just risen over the horizon. The masted boat has moved, across from one side of the mud flat to the other. I both wish to return home and to stay right where we are. I’m enjoying the relaxing escape from normal life, but I do miss the… Read more

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April 10, 2021

Flying

Darwin, Qantas, Sydney
The Beagle has landed

Almost a year and three quarters since I last touched the skies. It was probably the longest period between flights since I began flying again in 1991. After the pandemic struck and we were forced to stay home there were many times when I missed flying. The escape, the isolation, the distant horizons. I realised… Read more

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April 2, 2021

Flying

Australia, Darwin, Qantas, Sydney
A long time since

For the first time in one and three quarter years we are back at the airport and about to fly. It’s good to be back, but I do feel anxious. Read more

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April 2, 2021

Flying

Australia, Qantas
100 years of Qantas

Today marks Qantas’ centenary, starting from a bush airline in outback Queensland to an international powerhouse today. Sadly, the airline’s 100th birthday celebrations have been muted by the global Coronavirus pandemic, its largest aircraft, the Airbus A380, gathering dust in the Californian desert, its most iconic aircraft, the Boeing 747, finally retired this year. So… Read more

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November 16, 2020

Flying

Qantas
Farewell to the Queen of the Skies

It had to be Brighton. Almost nineteen years ago, less than two months after those aircraft crashed into the Twin Towers in New York, we set out on our first flight on a Qantas Boeing 747, the Queen of the Skies. It was not our first flight on a 747, that came a few years… Read more

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July 22, 2020

Flying

Australia, Qantas
War, democracy and a jumbo jet

Thanks to COVID-19, Alex’s long awaited school camp to the Snowy Mountains and Canberra was cancelled. Fortunately we have already given him greater snow experiences both overseas and in the mountains, but he was really looking forward to tours of the National Capital, having studied Australian democracy during the past couple of terms. This time… Read more

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July 19, 2020

Flying

Australia, Canberra, Qantas
Qantas 747 Sydney Farewell

It is confirmed. After almost fifty years, Qantas will farewell its Boeing 747 jumbo jet from service. Before the last 747, VH-OEJ, flies off to the boneyard in the United States on July 22, Qantas announced it would operate three farewell flights with passengers in Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra. I was unsuccessful in booking seats… Read more

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July 13, 2020

Flying

Australia, Qantas
And we are off!

It’s up, up and away on our virtual trip to Japan aboard a Qantas A330-300 to Osaka. Sydney’s Central Business District and the famous Harbour Bridge can be seen in the background. Read more

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May 17, 2020

Flying

COVID-19, Qantas, Virtual Japan
Farewell to the Qantas 747

Isolating ourselves from the scourge of COVID-19, borders closed between states and other countries, even a simple drive of a few kilometres can become a noteworthy journey. What drew me out of the house was another casualty of the pandemic. The Boeing 747 has played a huge role in the history of Qantas, spanning a… Read more

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March 29, 2020

Flying

Qantas

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