RE: anyone want to collect a few frequent flier points?

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Hi Karl, 
As a 100% airplane junkie I would love to go. The Aussies have a
wonderful air history and The amount of film and CF cards I would need
would keep Kodak fuji and Canon in business for years.

If you now of any TV coverage here in the states send up a flair!!

Les

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Subject: anyone want to collect a few frequent flier points?

Biggest air armada to take to the skies
By Geoffrey Thomas
 
THOUSANDS of Perth people will gaze skyward on December 13 when more
than 190 aircraft take part in the biggest flypast seen in WA to
commemorate 100 years of flight.

The sky will be alive with the sights and sounds of virtually every
type of aircraft in WA - commercial, military and executive jets,
turboprops and piston-engine aircraft, vintage, ultra-modern and
ultralight.

Some of WA's great aviation personalities will be in the air,
including Barry Markham, who flew his Tiger Moth from Perth to
England, and his brother John who has restored a magnificent Fox Moth.

Skippers' Aviation will fly six of its passenger aircraft, National
Jet Systems will fly one of its four-engine jets while Skywest will
showcase its Fokker 100 and a Fokker 50.

The participating aircraft will form up over Cockburn Sound between
2pm and 3pm and will be vectored over Fremantle at 1500 feet and will
then descend to 700 feet over Pt Walter and fly up the river at that
height past Kings Park and the city before climbing back to 1500 feet
over Heirisson Island.

Military aircraft from RAAF Pearce and most civil aircraft from Perth
Airport will be vectored separately, probably north of Fremantle off
the coast, and slotted into the flypast.

Air traffic control for the event will be co-ordinated from the top of
the BankWest Tower and there will be a commentary on a special FM
frequency from either Perth or Jandakot.

December 17 is the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first
flight at Kittyhawk, North Carolina.

According to organiser Malcolm Yeo, aviation course co-ordinator at
Edith Cowan University, there are still slots available for any pilot
to join the cavalcade of flight.

"Pilots need to contact us urgently to be part of the event," he said.

Mr Yeo, who started aviation courses in WA schools and universities,
said there had been great co-operation from all authorities,
particularly Jandakot Airport.

According to Mr Yeo, the flypast will take almost 90 minutes and the
organisers are hoping to also have departing commercial jets perform a
flypast of the city.

Not heavy metal but heavy in history will be John Markham's
70-year-old Fox Moth, which has been restored to pristine condition.

The Fox Moth has had an extraordinary history, having survived a
cyclone in Port Hedland, flown a passenger service to the Shetland
Islands off Britain in 1933 and carried hundreds of sick patients for
the Royal Flying Doctor Service.


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