Catch a Plane Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By Doodle Bug Oz on 06-Sep-14. Waypoint GA6861

Whilst at the Meet the Moveables event at Brimbank Park many planes flew overhead and I had fun trying to “catch” one. This was the best shot I took out of many. It was very hard to try and take the photo using the iPad with one hand.
I certainly didn’t have time to identify it in mid air so have no idea of what type it was.
Thanks for the amusement Doodle Bug Oz.

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This DC3 is sitting outside The Amaroo Tavern in Moree, NSW. My husband and I are staying in the caravan park nearby and noticed the plane as we drove past. I hopped out to 'touch' the plane and my husband took the photo of me.
More information about the plane can be found at http://www.amarootavern.com.au/the-plane/

Thank you Doodle Bug Oz for this locationless cache.

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When doing a cache in South Australia called 'Come Fly With Me' GC1KJKN we came across the business end of an old RAAF plane. A Pratt and Whitney engine from a RAAF C47B Dakota plane. Picture attached. Thanks Doodle Bug Oz for providing this locationless cache.

Qantas Dash 8 from BNE to CBR

Visiting the Point Cook aviation museum and I suddenly was spoilt for choice.

Here is a pic of me poking a Tiger Moth. The plane that impressed me the most was the Sabre that was the first to break the sound barrier in Australia in the sky above Avalon.

Cheers Doodle Bug Oz. Thanks for the fun.

After Tanso's paper plane I thought I'd do the same. For the past week I have attempted to capture planes in the actual sky as I thought going to the Perth Airport viewing area might be a bit easy. I got black images at night and photos of my fingers covering the planes in the sky. This guy will have to do for planes to come. FYI type gnome plane into google images and you get some amusing photos. Hopefully this passes the cache requirements.

I had to make one to do this, or my next chose was emoji

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Took Gwawr to the Aviation Museum so we could all log this cache.

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Granddad and Grandma took me to play at the Aviation Museum so I got to play at the controls of a plane and a helicopter as well as touch a number of other planes.

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I volunteer at the Aviation Heritage Museum in Bull Creek so had plenty of planes to choose from.

This Avro Lancaster has been part of the Museum since 1962 after it was flown to Perth from the Pacific where it was being used by the French since the end of WW2. Initially the plane was housed at the Perth Airport until being shifted to Bull Creek where it is now housed with a number of other Service aircraft in the North Wing. The South Wing of the museum contains the commercial and early historic items from Western Australia's aviation past. There is also a large selection of aircraft engines on display in this wing. Between the two wings a Huey helicopter from the Vietnam era is on display as well as two working engines that are started up for the public around lunch times on a Saturday. One of these engines is a Merlin and the other is a Cheetah.

There are currently only 2 Avro Lancaster planes that still fly, one in England and one in Canada. Of the rest that are located in various museums around the world it is believed that the one in Aviation Heritage Museum Bull Creek is the most complete in regards to the war time equipment. For a cost a one on one tour of the Avro Lancaster including the inside of the plane can be arranged with one of the experience volunteer guides.

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I was out Richmond way and thought the RAAF base there would be just the spot for a nice big plane to cailm for this cache But as we drove by, I found this much better plane right opposite. It's a Fat Albert (C-130 Hercules) and it looks as if it would be a very fun one to fly

A date with the daughter (current employee of the Australian War Memorial) for lunch and a chance to get up close and personal with some planes. I think G for George has to be the favorite!
The place is certainly worth a visit or three.
Thanks Doodle Bug Oz, I really enjoyed this one.

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Found this bunch of planes at Canberra airport.

Upon seeing this challenge in the scavenger hunt and reading it out loud to Daddy Long Legs and Kato Potato, they both instantly spoke about the air museum at Sale where we'd found a cache on a plane. Luckily, some work referrals came for Sale during the week, further justifying a trip out here with the slight detour to the museum. In the end, I touched two planes and came away happily. TFTC Doodle Bug Oz

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This is the best I can do! I headed to Devonport airport to catch a plane - but there wasn't even a little one around. So I did the next best thing. photograph is a collage showing me touching a plane, and a wider location.

Meet 'Fat Albert'. Though he doesn't really get off the ground much these days he is a symbol of the long relationship between the Hawkesbury community and the RAAF base across the road. There were many planes there I could pretend to touch but photographing military compounds not a good idea usually!

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Looking for a plane to catch for the Summer Scavenger Series I remembered about the "Spitfire Restaurant and Grill" in Rosebud and was able to catch the spitfire on the roof. I didn't have time to check out the memorabilia and decor that they have inside but I will soon.

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Mr ILT touching a plane on his way to the airport.

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We went to Melbourne from Launceston on a JetStar plane. Logging this locationless as part of the summer Scavenger Hunt.

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Caught this little fellow while out and about today.

Thanks Doodle Bug Oz

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Found with LouiseAnn, just as we'd taken a picture of a masonic temple, a plane flew overhead.

I'm using this as a claim for my Summer Scavenger Series.

Thanks for the locationless cache

This plane has been a part of the Western Sydney landscape for many years. Minchinbury. Today it got me some scavenger points.

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Heading North, we thought there was a plane on a corner, outside Taree airport, but we must have been mistaken. Then, eagle-eyed MummyPenny spotted this one in the grounds of the Airport Tavern and snapped me touching it. Doesn't seem to have an airworthiness certificate but it's safe to fly after you've had a few at the tavern. Thanks Doodle Bug Oz.

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Spotted this plane at a small airport near our hotel, stopped to grab the required photo. TFTC

At Richmond Airforce Base this was as close to a plane I could get without being arrested by the Security Guards constantly driving along this fence

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Canada Aviation and Space Museum
11 Aviation Pkwy, Ottawa ON
w: casmuseum.techno-science.ca

Just boarded a plane at Griffith Airtport

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We are aviation enthusiasts as well as geocachers and history buffs. This afternoon the other half of the team picked up that a Virgin Aerospatiale ATR 72 was coming on a charter from Miles Airport to Gold Coast Airport. This is an unusual aircraft type for the airport, so we decided to head down to watch it land and have a go at 'catching a plane'.

There are a couple of really good plane spotting spots around the airport, one is near where the gc.com cache "plane spotter' is hidden but this gives a side on view, and the skate park at Betty Diamond fields just off Boyd Street. The advantage of the skate park is that its only a couple of hundred metres from the end of the runway and because they have built up the area around the park to include ramps and bowls, visually it appears above the airport fence. Fortunately aircraft were landing from the north so they were coming in straight over us. This is where we positioned ourselves.

The aircraft arrived pretty much right on time and yes, both Samboo (our travelling companion)and Seeka appeared to catch it. We also caught a Virgin 737 coming in to land.

Thanks for the locationless.

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our daughter Miss J with her Uncle Andrew who is a Roulette, taken at Hobart airport on one of his many visits.
Andrew learnt to fly at Cambridge Airport just a few kilometres from here. He is about to move from Sale to Perth to become a Roulette instructor.

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Here is one from left field - "Fat Albert" sits in Ham Common Playground next door to the Hawkesbury Information Centre in Clarendon (NSW). Constructed with funds raised by the local community in recognition of the close relationship between the personnel of RAAF Base Richmond and the broader Hawkesbury Community.

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Summer Scavenger Series 2016 looking tonight for a plane to touch and I got one.
The VLAT is located at Richmond RAAF BAse for the summer.

A McDonnell Douglas DC-10 Very Large Air Tanker (VLAT) joins the NSW Rural Fire Service’s firefighting air fleet.

The DC-10, which will be under contract from 10 Tanker Air Carrier in Albuquerque, New Mexico in the United States, is expected to be based at RAAF Base Richmond alongside a Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules that arrived in Australia in late August.

The 10 Tanker Air Carrier website says the DC-10 was capable of carrying 43,910 litres of fire suppressant per load.

The RFS said on September 1 it would have 35 aircraft supporting the firefighting effort over the coming bushfire season, which would be “supported by over 100 tactical aircraft from operators that have met standards to carry out aerial firefighting activities”.

Canberratrekker at the controls of the B52 - I drive past the Australian Aviation Heritage Centre every day on my way to work but this photo was taken on the open cockpit day earlier this year. TFTC Doodle Bug Oz

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Up close and personal with a plane. Logging as part of the 2016 Summer Scavenger Series.

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This is from inside an Emirates flight, in the bar looking at the plane on the map, somewhere over the middle of Oz, while travelling to Italy earlier in the year.

2 planes for the price of one!

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I went with the "appearing to touch" approach when I found myself near one of the major flight paths in Sydney.

We were at the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society in Albion Park, NSW looking at the various aircraft on display. I snapped this little beauty of Sprout One in one of the cockpit of a war plane. Thanks for the cache. Logging for the Summer Scavenger Hunt find.

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I do not live near an active airport and rarely catch a plane these days and when I do I do not remember to take a photo. This is bordering on the ridiculous but PLANE has been used a couple of different intrpretations as per the meaning so there fore tongue I cheek I submit this one and hop you get a laugh and let it through. I am holding a plane in my right hand just like nother claim then there are the tows in my left hand and the one on my hat and then the one onmy left shoulder. It is good to have a toy box at home for the young grandkids. TFYL DOODLEBUGOZ

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Here I am taking my first lesson. Just about to take off. So awesome.

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Found this replica Spitfire out the front of the RAAF Aviation Museum in Bull Creek.
Won't be catching that anytime soon.
TFTC

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Mr J owns 4 planes. I've included a couple of photos of me touching them at my house.

I've owned them all since 1989, when I commenced my apprenticeship as a Carriage and Wagon Builder in Port Augusta.

I own a Record No. 5½ jack plane, a Footprint No. 4 smoothing plane, a Stanley no. 78 rebate plane, and a Stanley No. 75 bullnose plane.

Thanks Doodle Bug Oz.

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A few months ago, when our venturer unit travelled to Temora for a flying weekend, we were lucky enough to get private joyflights with the Scouts' Cessnas! In the evening, the landscape at Temora was beautiful! Thanks Doodle Bug Oz!

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Here i am touching the last Skywest Fokker 50 aircraft left at Perth Airport before it departs for Africa. I flew in and out of mining operations on one of these every week for 5 years. They have a special in me. I am lucky as i work airside at Perth Airport.

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Was out scavenging with buhfuhguh when we spotted this plane. Dedicated to fallen war heros.

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Touching the plane at the Cranbourne RSL

Touching the Machine of War at this location is a Vampire marked as A79-321 along Ashley Street, Braybrook. This is actually an ex-Zimbabwean FB.52, serial R8128, imported into Australia in 1988.
This location was used as a traditional cache location of mine until it went missing a few years ago, so it's nice to come back and "touch the plane".
Thanks for this cache which is being used for the Summer Scavenger Series.

Driving around the back blocks near home I spotted something I really didn't expect to see. An untralight plane in the back of a trailer!! Seeka and I stopped for a photo

Thinking outside the box, we caught a plane, well Mr W did complete with pilot. It appears to be a Stanley plane circa 1970's with cutting edge technology TFTL.

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at the entrance to a fast food shop in Taupo, NZ

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Couldnt get too close to this one because of a large dog but it was certainly parked in an odd spot.

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Doodle Bug Oz, the family flew down to Melaluca for a day trip while there we found a cache the other two were missing.

Yesterday, I came home from Cairns. I knew what I had to do, but they announced that no one was supposed to take photos while on the tarmac. Bummer! I sneaked this one in as I climbed t the top of the stairs. The flight was Tiger Airways TT681 from cairns to Sydney. Oh, the difference in weather between the two locations!

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In September I spent 4 days at the Singapore Grand Prix.

This was SQ227 Singapore Airlines Flight from Singapore To Melbourne.

A nice Boeing 777 flight.

Using the Flightradar24 app took a screen shot with a few details of the approx 7.5hr flight.

TFTL

My daughter & I on a plane to Melbourne from Launceston - the start of our trip to Europe.

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We 'caught' this plane at the Brisbane airport recently.

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Visited the Hobart Visitor Information Centre to go on a trip on the Red Decker double decker bus around Hobart and spotted this plane advertising Tassie Air Adventures. Got mr sharnie's tribe to pose for the photo required. Would recommend the red decker bus tour to anyone, enjoyed it very much! TFTL

Not sure of the coords for this photo as all our equipment was turned off. Here's Mrs Wagtail inside a jumbo at Sydney airport waiting to take off to Dallas.
Thanks for the memories Doodle Bug Oz.

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A favourite stopping place along State Highway 1 in NZ.

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850. A little bit difficult to log the co-ords as we were flying from Marseilles to Venice at the time. I was mightily impressed that we were given wine on the flight.

TFTC and the thief.

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During a visit to South Australia where Mrs y’stassie and chocolate_ali attended an embroidery workshop, visits to some aviation museums were on the itinerary. One of the visits was to the Classic Jets Fighter Museum at Parafield airport. During the visit chocolate_ali had the opportunity to climb into the cockpit of a Dassault Mirage III fighter, a French designed plane built under license in Australia. The Mirage was the first supersonic plane operated by the RAAF from 1963 to 1989 and its top speed of Mach 2 2as greater than the RAAF’s current F/A-18 Hornets. The photo added to the Gallery shows chocolate_ali in the cockpit and Mr y’stassie up close concluding that there was no way that he would have fitted into the cockpit.
Thanks Doodle Bug Oz for an other cache that took us on an enjoyable trip down memory lane.

On the highway at an info/ coffeee shop in NZ.

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Spotted this Locationless and thought it would be easy to get for a regular traveller. This shot was taxiing to takeoff point on runway 35 at Canberra Airport on QF1572 a Boeing 717-200 to Melbourne on Thu 18 September at 0640. This was taken from seat 1A! No business class on this aircraft!
Thanks for the fun cache Doodle Bug Oz.
Cheers
MajuraHathi

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Don't think this plane will be going anywhere-not sure of the history of it but it is what is becoming a plane graveyard. Thanks DBO.

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Another plane spotted at the Darwin Aviation Heritage Museum - think its been awhile since someone caught this plane ....

Hi Doodle Bug Oz
Was driving passed Cambridge Airport today and decided I may be able to do this cache as I passed.
Have a friend that used to fly these plains on a regular basis.
Hence my interest in logging this cache with these photos.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint

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Taxiing back into Sydney after a brisbane trip, the hardest part of this was remembering to take the pic on this return trip as I forgot on the way up.

On a plane heading for Singapore from Melbourne...

Singapore Airlines, an A380. Great experience and certainly enjoyed the trip. Have done a few A380 trips over the years, but this was the first.

Thanks for the locationless...hope the photo is ok.........

This plane was used by the Australian Customs Services and is currently housed at the Australian Aviation Heritage Centre in Darwin.

How about a photo of an aircraft that I have spent many hours flying? I have held a Commercial Pilots Licence since 1999 and have done the majority of my flying around Tasmania and to the islands in Bass Strait.

This photo is of me sitting in VH-EXC, an Aero Commander 500-S. I have flown about 500 hours in aircraft of this type, and it is an aircraft that I really enjoyed flying.

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Visiting an air show at Mittagong Historic Aerodrome which was built in 1944 for the RAAF when I saw this amateur built aircraft, a Cozy MkIV. That's me well rugged up on the left trying to stay cosy as it was a bitterly cold day. My elbow appears to be resting on the wing but of course it wasn't. If you want details on the plane type the rego number VH-BRN into Google.

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Aircraft inspection of the 'new' Qantaslink Hobart service. Aircraft was open for staff and guests at Hobart airport. TFTC

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Like this cache-reminds me of a GC challenge they use to have in the days of the GC challenges which were always fun to do. I can actually remembering this plane crashing as it happened quite close to my place. Luckily the crew were able to eject and landed safely.It is now at the aviation museum in Darwin.
Thanks Doodle Bug Oz for a new challenge

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Pic taken on our trip to the USA in 2011. This was leaving from the small airport on Hilton Head Island, in Suth Carolina.

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Ready to go catch a plane