Aircraft At Work. Transport In Australia Ep 3. 

those were the days my friend

Fabulous footage of the early jet age in Oz! Thanks for the upload!

Fascinating. Like most people, I've heard of Qantas, but I didn't know what it stood for. The Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Serivice, Qantas! :)

I was two or three when this was made. Planes were rapidly changing from decade to decade until then. By 1970 we had the Concorde . I thought that by 1980 we would be flying to work and that by 2000, we’d live in space or under the sea. But in 2020, airliners look pretty much exactly as they did in 1966, they fly no faster, aren’t much bigger, and the service on them is, if anything, worse. But they are definitely cheaper to fly on.

14:49 Paul would be well retired by now.Wonder how his aviation career went.? The Cessna VH-DIR is still flying and now owned by someone in Wangaratta Victoria.

TAA = Trans Australian Airlines, Federal Government owned since it commenced just after WWII in 1946, re-named Australian Airlines in 1986 before being sold to Qantas in 1992 and eventually becoming Qantas Domestic. Until then, Qantas was only international. History repeats. TAA’s only domestic competitor, thanks to the Government’s “Two Airline Policy”, was Ansett Airways. The duopoly produced airfares relatively five times more expensive than today’s domestic airfares and well out of reach for most Australians, even for the Sydney/Melbourne route.

16:25 thank god for improved engine emissions technology

Cars, fashion, buildings, many many things have changed since 1966, but I'm always surprised that the Boeing 727 airliner seen in the TAA livery in this footage at 0:17 is essentially the same shape and configuration as modern airliners. I know the operating and safety systems have developed, and the Concorde was an exception, but the nose, cockpit, fuselage, wings, engine mounts, and tail are all virtually unchanged in fifty years. That’s odd in such a high tech field. The footage also seems to indicate the same could be said for light planes.

Happy Centenary QANTAS

Oh yes, TAA - Try Another Airline 😉

16:10 Ah, the Boeing 707 Diesel ...

What a ridiculous warning to aborigines at the beginning.