Re: [NSW] Transport Reporting Terrorgraph

["tony bailey" <mercuryworldtvl@one.net.au>]

And the RNZAF spokesperson had to point out that most parts on the aircraft
were NOT 30 years old (I would suspect almost all that is 30 years old would
be the airframe itself?)

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Tony Bailey
Mercury World Travel
Mercury Travel Books
mercuryworldtvl@one.net.au
"Stuart Thyer" <s.thyer@anatomy.unimelb.edu.au> wrote in message
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> In article <3ab93b52_5@news01.one.net.au>, "tony bailey"
> <mercuryworldtvl@one.net.au> wrote:
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> >ABC Radio News also got the ferry type wrong in what is a continuing
effort
> >to NOT know anything about things technical - including a report a week
or
> >two ago describing our F111s as "fighters". (They were probably confused
by
> >the "F"!)
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> >And of course most of them can not tell one wide body civil aircraft from
> >another if it is not a 747 - and even than have problems with the mark.
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> I noticed on the late night news last night when they described the NZ
> fighter that crashed off WA they beat up on the point that the fighters
are
> 30 years old. No-one mentioned that the F-111's are a similar age.
> Bit like everyone beating up on the Russians regarding whether they can
land
> Mir in the ocean. Does anyone else remember that Skylab got spread over
WA?
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> Stuart Thyer
> Photographer
> University of Melbourne