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The ABC News article is most certainly centred around just the effect on Jetstar, and it's not an aviation technical report, and it ignores all the other affected airlines. Jetstar are most affected because they own around 90 A320's - but only 34 of the Jetstar A320's are affected by the recall. Virgin only own 4 A320's affected by the recall, and were able to work around those aircraft being pulled from operations for the software revamp. Qantas are not affected, as none of their aircraft are covered by the recall.

Don't forget! - they use piles of cardboard boxes for the stuntmen to land in, when they make those fabulous leaps, from the tops of big buildings!

Here's an ABC news article regarding the problem. Jetstar has had about 90 flights grounded. The repair involves a software update that takes about 2 hrs - but as always, a shortage of qualified LAMEs is a big part of the problem, that is causing delays. The software "update" actually involves reverting to the previous version of the aircrafts computer programming. It appears the latest software update installed was unable to cope with the solar flares. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-29/jetstar-flights-grounded-delayed-due-to-airbus-a320-recall/106081408

As I understand it, the BOM was dead-set on setting up the new site purely due to major security concerns surrounding the old site. The old site apparently runs on Linux and some "bad actors" (in the form of potential enemy countries) had been infiltrating the old site to garner a lot of useful, easily accessible information, about the stats and conditions of many things in Australia, related to water, and even geography. Not a lot of people know that the BOM site contains water reservoir information across all States, with detailed information on locations, reservoir names, reservoir capacities, water level heights and percentages of capacity, as well as other useful information to any "bad actor" planning any kind of enemy assault on our country. Not a lot different to the Japanese who did covert surveillance of Australias geographic features and facilities in the late 1930's. https://www.bom.gov.au/water/dashboards/#/water-storages/summary/state

Nothing that a couple of dampening springs wouldn't fix! I'm surprised, that with Peter Sripol reportedly having engineering qualifications, that he didn't work that little problem out.

I like one of the comments on Peter Sripol's Instagram page - "One time my dad asked about you in the car, and he was surprised to hear that you were still alive!" 😄

Wow, I can see some real potential there! Fill all the open spaces with expanding styrofoam, paint the outside of the cardboard with some Dulux Weathershield, and you're in with the winners! 😄 Crashproofing due to the styrofoam, waterproofing due to the Dulux, all that's needed is to ensure triple-wall cardboard is in the fuselage and wing spars! 😄 Have you seen how strong triple-wall cardboard is, and how durable Dulux Weathershield is?! Fantastic stuff! This thing will outlast the Gooney Birds! 😄

You have to ask - Why? It looks like a throwback to a draggy 1930's design.

John - A 33-year-old Boeing 747-400, registration HL7413, operated by Asiana Airlines Cargo, holds the record for the most hours flown by any Boeing aircraft: 149,645 hours. Converted from passenger service to freighter in 2007, this aircraft continues to fly key transpacific cargo routes. Second on the list is Cargojet’s 767-300ER (C-FCAE) with 147,861 hours, followed by Delta Air Lines N171DN 767-300ER, still flying passengers with over 145,622 hours. The B747 and B767 are amongst the best of the very well built (or perhaps "overbuilt") aircraft ever produced. Of course, the venerable Douglas DC-3 is also up amongst the long-lived list of aircraft, but their piston engines are possibly their weak point for ensuring longevity. A lot of DC-3's crashed simply due to engine failure. Jet engines reliability is one of the reasons why the B747 and B767 airframes can last for so long.

The media are now missing the point that the BOM website is no longer fit for purpose and doesn't provide satisfactory weather information or warnings, because the layout is user-unfriendly and a lot of information is "buried", with no clear indications of how to find it. I want to check weather at two locations regularly, the one I leave from, and the one I'm going to, in the W.A. wheatbelt. To do so, involves a convoluted trail of searching the BOM website.

I can recall the time when you couldn't get CoA for any aircraft that had ever been in combat, or designed for combat. In wartime, they're used and abused, and taken way beyond structural recommendations as they're thrown around the sky. They're shot up, patched, crashed and rebuilt - multiple times. They patched sections of one airframe onto another - and the LAME's worked in dreadful conditions, often with inadequate tools, and certainly using secondhand parts and components. In WW2 they worked in atrocious conditions, sandstorms, new fresh-made (and often, still unfinished) runways, they took off in deep mud, they spent all their life in the open, alongside the oceans, on decks of ships (from new), and the average airframe life in WW2 was probably 3-4 years.

No B-17 would have ever achieved any more than 2,000-3,000 hrs TT. "The Swoose" is the oldest B-17 preserved, and has probably done less than 2000 hrs. It was built in 1941, and started suffering from cracked wing spars and corrosion by 1944. The B17G "Nine-O-Nine" that was recently destroyed in a crash, had done under 1200 hrs. They weren't built to last, just built fast, to fight a war, and to be quickly destroyed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swoose#:~:text=The Swoose is a Boeing,oldest B-17 still intact.

They still appear to be in business? https://www.atecaircraft.eu/en/news

If you paint the wings and tail a bright purple, you'll have two colours and a pattern that will stand out anywhere. 🙂

How can you be so sure it's drone footage? It could be a screenshot from Google Maps. If I go to Google Maps Street View, and then click on the zoom out ( - ) button, I can get pretty good "drone-type" views of the terrain. I would inquire to the real estate company as to how they acquired that image or images, before making a report to CASA. If they have used a drone, then someone certainly needs reaming out.