6.4.24
Tickets for the 2024 Canberra Airport Open Day came up while I was in Tasmania.
Noone told me about it.
By the time I found out after I got home, tickets were "sold out". So I put myself on a waiting list.
A couple of days later I got an invite to claim a ticket. So I grabbed one.
Then messaged David and he was able to get some too.
So off we went.
In the pouring rain.
They didn't even scan our bar codes, we just waved them.
I wanted to go on the A220 which they promised would be there. But same as last time, advertised stuff didn't bother to show up.
So we waited in the pouring rain and deep puddles to go on the Hercules. Our shoes may have been drenched by the time we got on.
Kellie had gone back to the car at this point, so David and I did a quick walk around.
In the rain.
Which made for pretty reflections.
There was so much water on the runways this thing would have been right at home..
Neither of us had gotten our big cameras out at this point (David had actually left his gear in the car). The weather was all too depressing and David was hangry and needing to go to the toilet so we left to go find brunch.
After having brunch it was decided we'd meet their friends at the Burns Club. Yeah I shouldn't have had that burger. Whoops.
After lunch we decided to go back to the open day. Once again they didn't scan our tickets, we just waved them. We could have waved literally any QR code and they would have let us in.
The afternoon turned out to be a whole lot better and the sun even came out so that was pretty cool.
Hey! I was just there!
Closest I got to seeing an A220
The Roulettes flew in the afternoon
The last couple of open days have been a bit disappointing in that promised planes just haven't been there. It's still cool to go.. just hasn't been as good lately...
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