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    From keithr0@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Oct 9 22:52:29 2023
    Waiting at Canberra airport for our Virgin flight back to Brisbane, we
    were kinda surprised when an Alliance Fokker 100 turned up instead. It
    was probably quite old since it had ashtrays in the seat armrests. Not a
    bad flight though.

    As a bonus we were treated to the sight of the Roulettes taking off,
    first a single then a double and finally a triple.

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  • From Daryl@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Oct 10 10:12:25 2023
    On 9/10/2023 10:52 pm, keithr0 wrote:
    Waiting at Canberra airport for our Virgin flight back to Brisbane, we
    were kinda surprised when an Alliance Fokker 100 turned up instead. It
    was probably quite old since it had ashtrays in the seat armrests. Not a
    bad flight though.

    Last time I was at Brisbane airport I saw a lot of Alliance aircraft on
    the ground, I'd never heard of them before so I looked them up to find
    that a lot of their flying is FIFO for mines etc.
    They seemed to have a lot of aircraft so not surprised they had a spare
    to fill in when a Virgin aircraft wasn't available.

    As a bonus we were treated to the sight of the Roulettes taking off,
    first a single then a double and finally a triple.

    Nice.

    --
    Daryl


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  • From lindsay@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Oct 11 13:20:02 2023
    On 9/10/2023 10:52 pm, keithr0 wrote:
    Waiting at Canberra airport for our Virgin flight back to Brisbane, we
    were kinda surprised when an Alliance Fokker 100 turned up instead. It
    was probably quite old since it had ashtrays in the seat armrests. Not a
    bad flight though.

    As a bonus we were treated to the sight of the Roulettes taking off,
    first a single then a double and finally a triple.

    LOL...watched 2 of 'em fly past here on the way to east Sale Tuesday arvo...



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