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First episode was interesting, but commentator’s voice was annoying. Worth a watch if you can see it. Best part was a visit by a retired pilot who had 125 hours on the C130K XV200 that they were breaking.
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Mega Mechanics
'Grounded' 10 Bold, 1:00pm, Mon, 8 Jun 2020, 60 minutes Mega Mechanics are tasked with maintaining the safety and efficiency of Mega Machines. And sometimes it's something as simple as a landing gear pin in an A330. Each episode includes work within the Brisbane QF/JQ Heavy Maintenance Hangar |
It has not come up on 10play yet.
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4 Corners next Monday has an COVID Aviation Special
Grounded Just as Qantas announces major job losses, Four Corners‘ Michael Brissenden reports on Grounded, Australia’s aviation crisis and the future of flying. “It is the biggest crisis the airline industry’s ever seen.” Airline CEO All around the globe, airports that were once thriving busy places are lying virtually dormant. The previously crowded terminals are silent, the planes are parked in neat rows and no-one knows if air travel will ever be the same. “We’ve had flights with more dogs on them than passengers in the last couple of weeks.” Airport Manager Aviation is arguably the highest profile casualty of the coronavirus pandemic and the impact has been enormous. “Aviation is the lifeblood of the economy. It’s the arteries of the economy that facilitates the carrying on of business and the transport of people for work and for leisure, and of all of our goods. It’s an extraordinary thing to now have that shut down.” Airport Manager The aviation crisis has driven Australia’s second major carrier, Virgin, to the point of collapse. On Monday, the key players explain how things went so wrong so quickly. “You have a big capital-intensive industry with a lot of people, and you have no revenue. Our revenue went down to a very, very low number very, very quickly.” Former airline Chair The program details the battle to keep the airline going, examining why it was vulnerable in the first place and what was driving the refusal of the federal government to step in and directly support Virgin. “We were all tired. We’d all been working around the clock, seven days a week, 15 to 18-hour days, trying to avoid going into voluntary administration…I knew at that point that we were on our own.” Airline CEO Airlines all over the world are struggling to work out how to put passengers back in the skies safely, and affordably. “Social distancing on an aircraft is not practical anyway…you’d have 22 people on 180 seat aircraft. And that would make the economics non-viable or the airfares would have to be nine times what they are today.” Airline CEO The crisis for the aviation industry is so profound that it’s forcing airlines to confront the question – what is the future of flying and will they still have a viable business? “I actually think our biggest competitor is going to be Zoom and Teams and WebEx and Skype…people in business have discovered that you can actually hold a pretty good business meeting digitally over the screen on your computer or your laptop.” Airline CEO Monday 29th June at 8.30pm on ABC. |
4Corners - Grounded.
Well worth a watch if you are interested in Australian Aviation History. https://iview.abc.net.au/show/four-corners |
Been watching Plane Reclaimers from UK. It's last episode will air this week.
Would not recommend as it follows the same premise each week. * Plane Lands * Remove engines * Gut * Breakup Bur their are interesting tidbits. Scrapping a SWISS A319 that landed from Zurich, had to remove engines, shrink-wrap and return engines to Zurich via road so that they could be re-installed on another Swiss aircraft in 7 later. Pretty tight turn-around. Second most expensive spare, undercarriage |
More from Plane Reclaimers
80% value of a scrapped aircraft is its engines. |
A new season of BRITAIN'S BUSIEST AIRPORT: HEATHROW has started in the UK.
Filmed, pre-COVID, so it isn't an empty airport. Available via you favorite search engine |
Ghost Planes And The Mystery Of Flight 370
This documentary explores the potential causes of the disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370. Expert testimonials, computer simulations, news clips, and recreations illustrate what happened on March 8th, 2014. Together they compare this disappearance to other aircraft vanishings of the past. Was it an act of terror, mechanical failure, pilot suicide, or something more sinister? Multiple theories and conspiracies are explored. Sunday, 13 September at 10.40pm on SBS VICELAND |
Australia Come Fly with Me
SBS aviation series Australia Come Fly with Me, presented by Justine Clarke will screen for three weeks in October. Produced by WildBear Entertainment, this spans our history in the skies and surrounding social issues. Justine Clarke said: “Australia Come Fly With Me has been an eye-opening, exhilarating series to be part of. I loved learning about the daredevils and dreamers who made flying possible – pilots who risked their lives, women who refused to accept the status quo and migrants who were making this country home. I hope this series informs and inspires Australians in equal measure.” SBS Director of Television and Online Content, Marshall Heald, said: “Australia Come Fly With Me is a landmark television moment, celebrating the centenary of civil aviation. Social justice issues like gender equality, Indigenous representation, LGBTIQ+ rights and migration have all played out across history in the skies. Flying connected us with each other and the world and this series will remind Australians how it has shaped our nation.” Coincidentally, Clarke is also an actor in RFDS which has been filming for Seven in Broken Hill. The history of flight is filled with danger and glamour, social injustice and opportunity. Just as it brought people together, air travel also revealed the cracks in our society. Over three weeks, Australia Come Fly With Me will celebrate the turbulent history of Australians in the air. 2020 marks 100 years of civil aviation in this country at a time when the industry is facing its biggest challenge. Hosted by much loved actor Justine Clarke, the three-part series is a collision of pop culture, the history of flight and the great shifts in Australian life that flying enabled. The opportunities and tensions created by air travel are the context for struggles between sexes, sexualities and cultures that reflect and foreshadow changes that would follow on the ground. Justine explores the struggles of women, Indigenous Australians, gay men and migrants to find a place in the skies. These stories are told by flight attendants and pilots and are brought to life by a rich archive of aircraft, people and exotic destinations. Australia Come Fly with Me invites us to take a trip into the past from a fresh perspective. Australia Come Fly with Me is a heart-warming look at one of Australia’s most diverse, ambitious and important industries. It asks the question: What will be COVID-19’s lasting effect on our love affair with flight? In a time of relative isolation, this series shines a light on the desire within us all to connect. Australia Come Fly With Me will be subtitled in Simplified Chinese and Arabic, and added to the subtitled collection on SBS On Demand, available immediately after its premiere. It will also be available with audio description on the live television broadcast. Australia Come Fly With Me is a WildBear Entertainment production for SBS. Principal production investment from Screen Australia in association with SBS. Financed with support from Create NSW. 8:30pm Wednesday 14 October on SBS. |
For ACI Fans S19 has been released and is currently on special
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/a...on-19-2018-dvd Also the s1-18 boxed set is also on special |
At least three different DB Cooper docos floating around the net to celebrate the 49th Anniversary
For those who don't know the story of DB (Dan) Cooper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper |
Another Airport Series - this time from Anchorage Alaska
Ice Airport Alaska Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage, Alaska is the only hub airport on the planet to operate in temperatures as low as -38 Fahrenheit and contend with winds of over 100mph. Despite frigid temperatures, increasingly unpredictable weather patterns, and the chaos of everyday air travel, it is also the only airport in the US that never shuts down. Ted Stevens is the world’s fourth busiest cargo airport, transporting everything from the everyday to the exceptional, from tourists to the likes of racecars and even sharks. This series will take viewers behind the scenes with the ground crew as they fight the elements to keep the runways clear, with passengers on their daily commute to Alaska’s wild places and with air traffic control as they keep commercial, freight and private planes moving through safely and on schedule. “Ice Airport Alaska” is the untold story of the airport that never freezes. |
BlackBox 1996
In 1996 Ch4 (UK) produced a landmark TV series called "Black Box" This 4 part series (later followed by Series 2 with 2 parts) was the first serious TV series to investigate worldwide Air Crashes. https://archive.org/details/blackbox...ly-weather.mp4 Enjoy |
Surviving Turbulence
16-year-old teen Bob Bramley takes to the skies to break a solo flying record and shine a light on youth mental health, galvanised by the desperate struggles of his two friends. https://iview.abc.net.au/video/NC2102Q001S00 |
A new season of BRITAIN'S BUSIEST AIRPORT: HEATHROW has started in the UK.
Filmed starting in Nov 2020 during the UK's 2nd lockdown. Available via you favorite search engine |
ABC is currently airing a Foxtel series Aussie Inventions That Changed The World late on Thursday nights.
In one of the upcoming episodes is Airborne which includes the "blackbox". Don't have a date but keep on eyes on the TV guides |
ABC Monday 29 March 2021
9:35pm *Premiere Special* To The Stars: 100 Years Of The RAAF As the Royal Australian Air Force marks its 100th anniversary we look at the illustrious history of the RAAF, through rare archival footage and in-depth interviews with air force veterans, servicing members and new recruits. |
ABC TV
Air Force 100 Wednesday, 31 Mar 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM [120 mins] 2021 marks one hundred years of service for the Royal Australian Air Force. A special ceremony in Canberra attended by dignitaries and guests will mark the event with spectacular air displays and moving stories |
ABC TV
Air Force 100 Wednesday, 31 Mar 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM [120 mins] 2021 marks one hundred years of service for the Royal Australian Air Force. A special ceremony in Canberra attended by dignitaries and guests will mark the event with spectacular air displays and moving stories |
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A new series (for Aus & free-to-Air) of ACI has started on 7Two on Sunday nights.
Check you local guides. |
Bored in lockdown ?
SBS has a few of interest Fri 20/08 02:45 to 04:15 Plane Crash Scientist crash a B727 to see what happens Also on SBS Viceland from around 12:00 to 14:45 weekdays Seconds from Disasters. Check eps as they include Air & Space disasters. Keep healthy |
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Boeing's Fatal Flaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXMO0bhPhCw More about the Max crashes. Southwest was to be paid US$1M/aircraft delivered by Boeing if crew re-training was required. |
737 Max: Ten Mistakes
SBS Mon 20/09/21 19:35 |
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7News had a report yesterday on the AN-124 in Sydney, which was surprising given how reltively common it is here....
....unlike the AN-12, first visit, of which there was no mention. |
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New Series (S22) of ACI starts on Foxtel tonight.
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For those with Netflix
Downfall: The Case Against Boeing |
Does anyone remember an Australian television special report on MH-370 that contained comments and an interview with Tony Abbott? What was the name of the program, as it reeks with BS including all the comments from Abbott.
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Something a little different
Silver Spitfire: The Longest Flight https://iview.abc.net.au/show/silver...longest-flight Amazing photography !! |
A little history ... Erebus - The Aftermath - Docu-Drama on the Erebus Disaster made 1995
If you don't who the story & subsequent cover-up, it is well worth a watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMn1W6A88Rc |
SBS 18/05/22 20:30 - 21:30
Boeings Fatal Flaw |
SBS Viceland Thursday Night (Starting 19/5/22) for 3 wks
Fighter Pilot - The Real Top Gun Training RAF/RN F-35 Pilots |
New Netflix doco series "D.B. Cooper - Where Are You ?"
Opening titles show a diagram of a B737 as well as a B737 with rear stairs. It sort of goes downhill from there unless you know nothing about the story. The plane involved was B727-51 N467US Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 from Portland to Seattle. |
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