Artemis Launch live (NASA)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA9UZF-SZoQ

Delayed due to engine issues. Now scheduled for 0200am Saturday our time.

The crash test dummies looked worried until the hold at T-00:40

ABC 4Corners will air a story on Qantas next Monday night.

Tonight on ABC 4Corners

Flight Risk: The inside story of the chaos at Qantas

Until recently Qantas had a reputation envied by airlines all over the world.
But now the Spirit of Australia is in damage control, beset by customer complaints and a demoralised workforce.

On Monday Four Corners reports the inside story of the decline of Qantas.
Reporter Stephen Long has spoken to current and former staff including pilots, flight attendants and baggage handlers.

They tell a story of ruthless cost cutting and a divide and conquer culture.

The new series of Aussie Salvage Squad started last night (not something I normally watch)

The episode included the recovery of P-3 Orion A9-752 that was washed away in the Lismore floods earlier this year.

https://7plus.com.au/aussie-salvage-...&autoplay=true

Is the P-3 still at Lismore or has it been moved to Evans head?

Yes, it was stored at Lismore airport pending transport to Evans Head.

Hopefully it does not get washed away again this summer.....

For those interested:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/

Aired last night on Ch7

Code 1 - Minute By Minute - Perth Air Show Disaster

Grumman American Aviation Corp G-73, VH-CQA, 10 km WSW of Perth Airport, Western Australia on 26 January 2017

https://7plus.com.au/code-1-minute-b...&autoplay=true

ATSB Report

https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications...ir/ao-2017-013

For fans of ACI, JB-HIFI currently have the S1-20 boxset on special (30%) off

NCIS LA - s14e10 - A Long Time Coming aired in the US last week. The final "chase" scene is set in a Mojave aircraft.

To the naked eye, the "chase" is shot in/and around a number of stored/scrapped QF B744s.

60mins is planning to do a "story" on the Sea World Chopper Crash on Sunday night. (Subject to change)

Aired last night on Ch7
Code 1 - Minute By Minute - Essendon Air Crash

I like everybody else who missed it will watch it online

Also there is NETFLIX doco on MH370 due out any day.

ACI s23e07 - Dream Flight Disaster covers the Sydney Seaplanes crash

Next Sunday night (30/04) on SBS

The Andes - 50 Years Later

Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZFtmxoP9Hs

On Sunday SBS screens The Andes Tragedy: 50 Years Later, a special described as a totally new and unique telling of the greatest survival epic of all time.

On Friday the 13th of October 1972, a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashed in a remote area of the Argentinian Andes during the heart of the snowy season. A search was abandoned after only 10 days and all aboard were presumed dead. But of the 45 passengers and crew, 32 had survived the initial impact.
For 72 unimaginable days and nights they endured starvation, sub-zero temperatures, and even an avalanche. The bodies of the dead became the survivors’ only source of food. And all attempts at saving themselves proved hopeless. Then, just before Christmas, the world was stunned when two emaciated men emerged from the mountains, having travelled on foot for 10 days and leaving 14 more survivors back at the crash site.

The unthinkable ordeal of the Andes survivors is one of the greatest examples of human endurance in recorded history. Now, on its 50th anniversary, an expedition that includes one of the survivors returns to the remote crash site in summer, where glacial melting and the effects of climate change have stripped the area of snow and ice. With this dramatic transformation, the site has begun revealing long-hidden secrets. From buried wreckage to personal items, to preserved human remains, the means by which 16 men survived the impossible have never been more clearly revealed. Featuring exclusive interviews with survivors and climate experts, this is a totally new and unique telling of the greatest survival epic of all time.

Sunday, 30 April at 8.30pm on SBS.

Any fans of "Flying Wild Alaska" will be saddened to hear of the loss of the patriarch of the family, Jim Tweto. The Cessna 180 Jim was piloting crashed on June 16, 2023 northeast of Shaktoolik. Longtime Bush pilot Jim Tweto and Idaho hunting guide Shane Reynolds died in the crash.

https://alaskapublic.org/2023/07/11/...lik-ntsb-says/

ABC 4Corners last night (18/09) was on QF and called "Flight Risk".

Should ve available on iview

Just out on Netflix

The Shepherd

Bases on a Frederick Forsyth book of the same title.

Next Monday night (11/12/2023) at 20:30 to 22:30 on SBS is Concorde - The Race to be Supersonic

Two new movies/docos on the Andes planes crash

Netflix Society of the Snow
Ch5UK Andes Plane Crash - Terror at 30000 Feet

New series from the Smithsonian Channel "Extreme Airport Africa".

Form an Oz perspective, it includes behind the scenes look at Airlink with the ex-VA E-Jets.

SkyTV UK is currently airing a 4-part series on Lockerbie

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30320447/

Masters of the Air

A sweeping WWII epic brings to life the American experience in the air, where boys became men amid the horrors of war.

You know that when Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and producer Gary Goetzman team up for a drama series they mean business.

All three produced Band of Brothers and the Australian-filmed The Pacific. Now they return to the trenches -or rather the skies- for Masters of the Air, based on Donald L. Miller’s book of the same name.

The 9 part series follows the men of the 100th Bomb Group (the “Bloody Hundredth”) who, during 1943 World War II, conducted bombing raids over **** strongholds.
Leading these combats are friends Maj. Gale ‘Buck’ Cleven (Austin Butler) and Major John ‘Bucky’ Egan (Callum Turner).

“We came from every corner of the country with one purpose, to bring the war to Hitler’s doorstep” Cleven tells us through his narration.

But their experience in the skies is limited, putting their wild days of women, gambling, drink behind them.

Skilled director Cary Joji ***unaga (True Detective) brings the jeopardy early even just in negotiating flight landings in Greenland as the men travel from the US to Britain’s Thorpe Abbotts Air Base.

Anthony Boyle features as Lt. Harry Crosby a skilled navigator but one challenged by frequent air sickness. In these crude, uncomfortable mechanical birds it’s understandable. At such icy heights it’s easy to forget that a gunner’s hands can be ice-burned from placing his hands on the gun.

The top-heavy male cast also features Barry Keoghan, fresh from his star turn in Saltburn as Lt. Curtis Biddick.

While Maj Egan wants to be in the sky and not stuck behind a desk on the ground, it is Maj. Cleve who will have to command a perilous mission in the skies. Under such trying conditions Butler’s cool demeanour is well cast….

Warfare and dogfights are never far from the plot of this sweeping saga and the brutality is convincingly brought to bear in ways that are unforgiving, while putting money on the screen. The theatre of it all often upstages the acting in the foreground, but cleverly, there is also drama in each of the individual squads whether from human frailities or mechanical shortcomings.

There is room for levity in R&R and testosterone hijinks back at the base, as well as generously acknowledging the important of support crews such as those who are responsible for safe and functioning bombs loaded onto planes.
“In a way they were on every flight with us, and would not relax until we came home…”
When the Americans encounter the Brits there are clear divisions about -well- best bombing strategies. While the Brits bomb indiscriminately at night, the Americans stick to precision bombing at daytime, to the extreme point of even abandoning one attack for fear of hitting civilians and not a **** target. On this point the American storytelling by scriptwriter John Orloff adopts a fairly righteous position. Heck, even the theme music by Blake Neely is so red, white and blue, I feel like standing up and saluting.

Based on the two episodes available for preview without embargo, the series clearly dramatises the heroic American experience, of boys who were charged to become men, and some who never returned. On this front it is a striking achievement, if possibly at the expense of a wider lens.

Double episode premiere Friday, 26 January then weekly on Apple TV+.

Tomorrow Nights (25/02) 60mins will include a piece on MH370.

Expect several docos on MH370 with the 10th Anniversary next month

SBS Wednesday 6th March 20:30 - 21:35

Pan Am: Rise & Fall of Aviation Icon

Sunday Night Ch7 20:30

Why Planes Vanish: The Hunt for MH370

Warplane workshop on Channel 4 starts tonight.

Extreme Airport Africa

Last episode has recently aired with a flight to Saint Helena Island with an Ex. VA E190.

One of the reasons the Airlink snapped up these ex-VA aircraft was for this flight.

Like landing on an aircraft carrier !

Tonight (2/4) on Ch7

7:31pm – 9:06pm (95 mins)

World's Most Extreme Airports

A Little Bit of Australian Aviation History

Safety is No Accident (1961)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsKORqw-9eA

Anyone interested in WW2 may enjoy a new series starting on SBS next Saturday arvo called "War Gamers" Originally shown in the UK as "U-Boat Wargamers"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wester..._Tactical_Unit

Can't remember any planes in it but well worth a watch

Next Monday night ABC 4Corners will air Frontline / New York Times report “Boeing’s Fatal Flaw.”