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  • Ballina to Byron via Twin Towns
  • Byron Bay was traditionally a sanctuary for 'Age of Aquarians', which peaked in the 1960s. Nowadays it remains a popular tourist resort and hosts an annual blues festival which looks back longingly to Woodstock and Australia's own Sunbury. Tweed Head (NSW) and Coolangatta (QLD) sit astride the N.S.W./Queensland border and are known as the "Twin Towns".
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  • Australia  Australia
  • location_cityN.S.W. | North Coast
  • flight_takeoffYBNA Ballina
  • Coastal
  • 2023  
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  • Inverell
  • Sitting astride the Macintyre River, Inverell has been a source of diamonds and sapphires from the mid 19v onwards. Nowadays the main activities are tourism and a variety of crop cultivation.
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  • Australia  Australia
  • location_cityN.S.W. | New England North West
  • flight_takeoffYIVL Inverell
  • 2023  edited: 08-04-2023
  • Quirindi, Wallabadah & Currububula
  • Say that four times quickly!
    With a population of around 3,000, Quirindi is typical of many small country towns in Australia. Like many place names in Australia, Quirindi is a word from one of the 400 plus Aboriginal languages. It's meaning is not agreed upon. Wallabadah, population ~ 300 is named after an Aboriginal word meaning 'stone'. Wallabadah Airport appears to be a grass strip NE of town. Currabubula, population ~ 300, named after a word from the Kamilaroi language.
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  • Australia  Australia
  • location_cityN.S.W. | New England North West
  • flight_takeoffYQDI Quirindi
  • ValleyOpen-Cut Mine
  • 2023  
  • Carpe Cuprum
  • Latin: Sieze the copper! This region of NSW has enormous reserves of copper.
    Copper has been serving mankind for about 11,000 years in weaponry and cookware. Since the work of Franklin and Faraday in the 19c it has been the circulatory system of the modern world, conducting electricity across continents into our homes, and around our electronic devices.
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  • Australia  Australia
  • location_cityN.S.W. | Central West & Orana
  • flight_takeoffYNYN Nyngan
  • Open-Cut Mine
  • 2023  
  • Clancy of the Overflow
  • The Lachlan River runs east to west through Forbes. It is named after Governor Lachlan Macquarie, the fifth governor of NSW from 1810 to 1821. It also features in the iconic Aussie poem "Clancy of the Overflow" by Banjo Paterson.
    NOTAM: The plains around the Lachlan River are so flat that hills of 500 feet stand out starkly and are useful aids to navigation. Where there is no terrain relief at all, look for junctions of straight lines such as road and rail intersections.
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  • Australia  Australia
  • location_cityN.S.W. | Central West & Orana
  • flight_takeoffYFBS Forbes
  • 2023  
  • Back o’ Bourke
  • Back o' Bourke: is an expression allegedly minted by poet Henry Lawson, and refers to Bourke's place at the edge of civilisation. Bourke is at the western edge of the agricultural regions of New South Wales and is a gateway to the vast and arid Australian outback. Take a short trip around the local farms and marvel at the vast, dry red plains beyond.
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  • Australia  Australia
  • location_cityN.S.W. | Far West
  • flight_takeoffYBKE Bourke
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  • Sydney at night in a Vought Corsair
  • Breaking every rule in the book I fly under the Sydney Harbour Bridge, through a football stadium, and frighten the diners 60 floors up in Centrepoint Tower's revolving restaurant! Oh, and it's at night in a Vought Corsair, which Microsoft thoughtfully provided for us in every copy of Flight Sim 2004.
    And then I land at Sydney International Airport... probably in the wrong direction...
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  • Australia  Australia
  • flight_takeoffYSSY Kingsford Smith
  • local_airportGrumman F4U Corsair
  • precision_manufacturingMicrosoft
  • FlyableMiGMan’s Combat Diary
  • 2004  
  • VIDEO
  • Douglas DC-3 flight over Sydney, Australia, 2006
  • On an unusually grey Sydney afternoon in October 2006 MiGMan was a guest of Microsoft at the launch of their new flagship product - Microsoft Flight Simulator X.
    The creme-de-la-creme of Australia's gaming journalists gathered at Kingsford Smith Airport, Sydney, and embarked on a champagne flight over Sydney Harbour in a C-47, the military transport version of the Douglas DC-3.
  • Australia  Australia
  • location_citySydney
  • flight_takeoffYSSY Kingsford Smith
  • local_airportDouglas DC-3
  • precision_manufacturingMicrosoft
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  • IRLMiGMan’s Combat Diary
  • 2006  
  • VIDEO
  • F-111 Dump and burn during the Sydney Olympics
  • After getting special permission from a nervous civil aviation authority an RAAF F-111 was granted permission to fly at under 500 feet altitude - practically IN the stadium during the closing ceremony. As it passed over the flame the pilot engaged afterburner and then dumped fuel, resulting in the trademark 100 foot plus trail of fire - as if a chariot of the gods had picked up the flame on the way to Greece.
    As it flew 14 kilometres towards the Sydney Harbour Bridge it was accompanied by a sea of flame as the Parramatta River seemed to explode, with fireworks every 500 metres.
  • Australia  Australia
  • location_citySydney
  • military_techRAAF
  • local_airportGeneral Dynamics F-111 Aardvark
  • IRLAir Show
  • 2000  
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