A bit of fun - Aussie Airline Quiz

[scotty100368]

HI folks!

For something a little different, I thought I might see how well you know your Aussie Airline History. Try these and see how you go:
(I will post the answers a little later)

1. What was the year, route and aircraft type of Ansett's first ever service?

2. Besides KLM, which only other airline operated the DC-5?

3. Which previous Qantas CEO (now deceased) had an aircraft named in his honour recently?

4. Trans Australia Airlines (TAA) was a government-run airline that was created in what year?

5. Who originally created and was first CEO of Compass Airlines (Mk 1)?

6. What aircraft type did Ansett call the Skystar?

7. What was rather unique about the first batch of Boeing 767s received by Ansett that later lead to a dispute with crew?

8. Qantas used HS.125s to train pilots for what other type?

9. In the 1960s, the two-airline policy compelled TAA to buy a fleet of Lockheed L-188 Electras to match Ansett instead of another aircraft type - but what was the type TAA controversially wanted to buy?

10. In what year will Qantas celebrate its centenary?

11. Who were the three gentlemen who founded Qantas?

12. What two airlines were merged to form Regional Express (Rex) Airlines in 2002?

13. Which international airline did Qantas absorb in 1954?

14. What two airlines did Qantas acquire their Short Sandringham fleet from?

15. What aircraft type was operated by Compass Airlines Mk 2?

16. During the pilots' dispute in 1989-90, the RAAF provided a relief service using C-130s and other transport types. What airline moniker did they give themselves?

17. What aircraft type did Qantas use during WW2 to provide the "Double Sunrise" service?

18. MacRobertson Miller Airlines (MMA) became a well known West Australian airline from 1934, however it did not start there. What route was it's initial (1927) service?

19. On 16 October 1964, the Australian domestic jet age began when the first Boeing 727s for Ansett-ANA and TAA landed at Essendon Airport (broadcast live on local TV) only several minutes apart. Which landed first and how was it determined?

20. The QANTAS Sydney-London route is/was known as the "Kangaroo Route", but it has nothing to do with the Qantas logo. How did it get its name?


Cheers!

Scott.

[Tony P]

I'm going to non google the answers:

1. 1936?
2. Ansett
3. James Strong
4. 1945
5. ??
6. A320
7. Had an Engineers seat that wasn't really needed.
8. 707
9. ?/
10. 2021
11. Hudson Fysh and some other dudes
12. ??
13. ??
14. BOAC & ??
15. A300
16. vomit airways (TIC)
17. Catalina
18. ?? (Wally is a shoe in for that one)
19. Ansett. Flip of a coin.
20. Due to the many hops (stops) it took.

[VH-WAL]

2. Australian National Airlines

5. Brian Grey?

9. Caravelle

12. HAzelton and Kendals

13 BCPA

15 MD 80s

18 Perth - Daley waters correction... adelaide broken hill mt gambier kimba whyalla and kangaroo is

[Graeme H]

I tried to post this about the same time as Wally, and it got lost in the ether, so another go

1. 1936 Hamilton Melbourne, Fokker Universal
2. a US one Penn (something)
3. James Strong
4. 1948
5. Mr Grey (forget his first name)
6. A320
7. They were the only 767's to ever have Flight Engineers station
8. B707's
9. Sud Caravelle
10. 2020
11. Fysh, Lester and Brain
12. Hazelton and another I can't remember
13. BCPA
14. BOAC And TEAL
15. MD80's
16. We only had one a day, and never heard any name, probably kangaroo Airlines
17. Catalina
18. Was in Sa Adelaide to somewhere
19. TAA toss of a coin
20. It was due to the number if stops it made Ihops), from my very didgy memory Sydney, Darwin, Singapore, Colombo, Bombay (Mumbai), Karachi, Bahrain?, Athens Rome, London


Now I've been on the go for about 20 hours, flew to Cairns and took a Steam Train trip back to Townsville, just on 9 hrs

[F-27pax]

Off the top of my head and before looking at the other answers.
1 Hamilton-Melbourne in a Fokker Universal
2 ?
3 James Strong
4 1946 (had to get it launched before the Federal election that year)
5 Brian Grey
6 ?
7 Had an engineers position
8 Boeing 707
9 Sud Aviation Caravelle (TEAL wanted them too I seem to recall)
10 2019
11 Pat McGuinnes, Hudson Fysh, Fergus McMasters
12 ?
13 British Commonwealth Pacific Airways
14 ?
15 MD93
16 ?
17 Catalina
18 Adelaide to the Riverland
19 Toss of a coin
20 Name given to the London-Sydney route by BOAC

Let us know how we went.

Leigh

[tor lives]

Great Idea Scotty....love it!!

Question 16:
Pilot's dispute was in 1989 and in addition to C-130s, the RAAF provided Boeing 707s and HS-748s. RAN also contributed HS-748s

[scotty100368]

Question 16:
Pilot's dispute was in 1989 and in addition to C-130s, the RAAF provided Boeing 707s and HS-748s. RAN also contributed HS-748s

Question amended.

I gather from your detailed recollection TOR, that you participated in such? (I know both Rays are ex RAAF)

Scott.

[tor lives]

Question 16:
Pilot's dispute was in 1989 and in addition to C-130s, the RAAF provided Boeing 707s and HS-748s. RAN also contributed HS-748s

Question amended.

I gather from your detailed recollection TOR, that you participated in such? (I know both Rays are ex RAAF)

Scott.

Certainly did Scotty....33SQN spent three months almost exclusively operating TN and AN services. At the time this operation was referred to as "DAS" or Domestic Air Support. It was really a bizarre time because, while RAAF 707s were busy operating domestic air services for that period, QANTAS 747s had to be leased in to operate military services in support of "Pitch Black", which was under way at the time. Additionally, the RNZAF also contributed 727s to substitute for the RAAF 707s in their regular ADF support tasks.
Another interesting fact is that the RAAF 707 fleet was commandeered to operate civil domestic air services on a 2nd occasion.....that being the collapse on Compass Mk 1.

TOR

[VH-WAL]

My mum got stranded in Perth during the strike, she got a lift back to MEL on a RAAF 707 she said it was a great flight and the boxed sandwich meal better than the usual airline fare!

Incidently during the strike people would say to me (as an ATC) that I must be having it easy at work, NOT so, I never worked so hard in my life, the big planes got replaced by many many little ones to get all those displaced arses on seats.. every hangar queen was dragged out dusted off and taken to the air, so many dodgy radios, u/s transponders coupled with foreign crews in unknown foreign airlines all made for an interesting time.

[Tony P]

Thanks for clearing that up. Is the answer to 16 "RAAF Airways"?