Friday
31st December, 2021
End of Year Roundup
Cheers for a better 2022
A photo of Paseo Street in Fukushima City
Blue sign on right is where I once worked
Christmas illuminations were always so wonderful to see
A little joke in Japanese ...
I bought a salmon fillet and some tiger prawns
from The Fish Factory in Colmslie
How huge, how delicious ...
The hottest daze of 2021 and my not-so-old
air con inverter shorts itself out.
Nobody about to fix it until January.
as a Learner Driver.
Christmas Day
Pizza and Italian food at the Cannon Hill Tavern
Was casual and delicious ... maybe high calorie, though ?!
From their Facebook Account photos ...
the Listel Hotel, Lake Inawashiro.
Winter Wonderland which I greatly miss living here.
Like, really ?
John Ross, at 85 years young
Had the pleasure taking a retired Australian Army Helicopter pilot for a flight recently.
John Ross first flew solo in the Bell 47 (G2) with the Australian Army in 1961. After a posting to Fort Rucker with the US Army to train as an instructor, John returned as the Senior Flying Instructor-Rotary Wing for Army’s 16 ALA Sqn prior to joining the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) in Melbourne in 1966 as the first rotary wing examiner of airmen and airways surveyor in Australia.
After investigating a fatal offshore helicopter accident in Bass Strait 1969, John left DCA and spent his career advising aviation operations supporting the offshore oil and gas industry.
John hasn’t flown a Bell 47 in 50 years but I tell you , he flew my Bell 47 “ Larry the Mighty Bell 47” as if he had flown one just yesterday. Not bad for 85 years young.
John is the father of PAC member Cameron Ross, who also flew helicopters in the Australian Army (’87 – ’95).
by Darren Barnfield
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A photo of John's late wife, Helen
Mother of Cameron ( second child )
Helen on her wedding day to JohnPhoto of the immediate Saunderson Family
L to R : Ron, Helen, Molly, June, Phillip