Sunday, 11 July 2021

Day 74. Longreach 🎂

Today we visited the Qantas Founders Museum. Photo overload again 🤷😁









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       Early uniforms.


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Piece of 'birthday' cake for morning tea 🎂
       Not as comfy as Marks plane.

  The Catalina Flying Boat. We saw    where these were used during the war in Karumba. 



      Looking through the nose.

Looking through the back end

Qantas hangar. 








     Art gallery 

Qantas airpark. Pics of the different planes we went in.

  Nose wheels. 
 16 wheels on the back.


   Black box.
   Seating in the 707
Section of the control panel 
Stairs to cockpit 
The galley.
Cockpit of the 707.
Where the cockpit crew slept on long haul flights. 
Constellation. 








        707 engine 

Known as the flying luxury yacht.




Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5 hired this plane to tour with.


Gunthers Panoramic of the airpark. 
We had a roast buffet dinner at the Wool Shed.















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