User:YSSYguy

"In the real world, you can go to Antarctica and witness the march of the penguins, or to Africa and witness the march of the Wildebeest. In cyberworld, you can come to Wikipedia and witness the march of the fuck-knuckles."

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 * ACT
 * NSW
 * NT


 * QLD
 * SA


 * TAS
 * VIC
 * WA


 * AL
 * AZ
 * AR
 * CA
 * FL


 * HI
 * KS
 * KY
 * MO


 * NE
 * OH
 * OK
 * TN
 * TX

I am an Australian aviation enthusiast who also works within the aviation industry - at Sydney Airport when I first joined the Wikipedia community (hence my user name, the International Civil Aviation Organization airport identification code for Sydney Airport is YSSY) - in the field of aircraft maintenance.

= Possibly the best edit summary I have seen = Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Bushranger

= Also possibly the best edit summary I have seen = Now I'm conflicted. The work of BilCat everyone [thunderous applause]

= With a tug of the forelock to Whitney Houston... = *sings* "...and Ooooff is the direction I'd like yooouuu to Fuuuuck"

= Sockpuppet investigation = I thought I'd seen it all on Wikipedia; then I saw this breathtaking edit. Methinks s/he doth protest too much.

A couple of weeks later, we have this "new" User, whose very first edit serves to announce - among other things - that s/he is not a sockpuppet of ModernFire. Kind of takes the fun out of running an SPI.

= Best. Unblock. Request. Ever = "You should unblock me because blocking me is a violation of the UN Declaration of Human Rights". Wow...

= Does anyone actually read the articles? = So, on 30 December 2008 Aditya Kabir added some text to the Bikini article, that included the phrase 'made by Mappin and Webb of London in the 1977'. On 14 January 2009, Aditya Kabir did a cut-and-paste job to move text to the Bikini variants article (in only the third edit to that article), including the phrase 'in the 1977'. That phrase remained in the article until I edited it on 25 June 2019 —- a bit under ten-and-a-half years between the mistake being made and somebody fixing it.

I'm not having a go about the mistake, I have typed 'the the' plenty of times when not explicitly referring to the eponymous band. I wonder how many people have read that phrase 'in the 1977' and done nothing about it, or read that without noticing it.

= Barnstars =

= Articles =

Articles created
I have created thirty articles so far, seventeen dealing with aspects of the Australian aviation industry:


 * AAC Wamira
 * AT-10 Wichita
 * Beechcraft Lightning
 * Beechcraft Model 34
 * Belairbus
 * Brumby Aircraft Brumby 600
 * CAC Ceres
 * CASA 3000
 * Castaibert aircraft
 * City of Canberra (Boeing 747-400)
 * Convair P6Y
 * de Bruin Air (deleted at my request on 1 August 2012, see here)
 * Droop (aircraft)
 * Gluhareff EMG-300
 * Government Aircraft Factories


 * Gulfstream Aerospace Peregrine
 * Lasco Lascondor
 * Lasco Lascoter
 * Lycoming O-480
 * Qantas Freight
 * Regional Express Holdings
 * Sasin Spraymaster
 * Skytraders
 * Swearingen Merlin
 * Template:Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation
 * Timor Air
 * Tugan Aircraft
 * Tugan Gannet
 * Yeoman Cropmaster
 * 2017 Essendon Airport Beechcraft King Air crash

Significant contributions
Some (but not all) of the articles dealing with aspects of Australian aviation that I have edited were almost non-existent as far as content was concerned. While not creating them, I consider that I have made a very large contribution to these articles:


 * 1936 KLM Croydon accident
 * 1985 Aeroflot Antonov An-12 shoot-down
 * Aeroflot Flight 411
 * Aérospatiale Corvette
 * Air Alpes
 * Air Serv International
 * Air Vanuatu
 * Beechcraft L-23 Seminole
 * Beechcraft Model 18
 * Beechcraft King Air
 * Beechcraft Super King Air
 * Beechcraft T-34 Mentor
 * Buddha Air
 * CAC Wackett
 * CAC Wirraway
 * Cobham Aviation Services Australia
 * Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation
 * Conair Firecat
 * de Havilland Australia
 * de Havilland Australia DHA-3 Drover
 * Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner
 * Gulfstream G650
 * Hawker 400


 * International MXT-MV
 * LaMia Flight 2933
 * Napier Oryx
 * No. 33 Squadron RAAF
 * No. 34 Squadron RAAF
 * Our Airline
 * Pearl Aviation
 * Pel-Air
 * Piper Aircraft
 * Piper PA-31 Navajo
 * Pratt & Whitney T73
 * Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8
 * Ryan ST
 * Sikorsky S-76 Spirit
 * Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corporation
 * SkyAirWorld
 * Sunstate Airlines
 * Target tug
 * Tasman Cargo Airlines
 * Toll Aviation
 * Vanair
 * Lawrence Wackett
 * Widerøe Flight 933

Edits
In the first year-or-so after registering an account in July 2007, my editing tended to be of the "one-massive-edit" school (for example this expansion of the de Havilland Australia article and this edit to the Ryan ST article) rather than the "make-lots-of-small edits" variety but nowadays I don't have the time to spend several hours working on one article. As a result of having less time to spend, I now usually make small edits to articles, often to fix typographical errors and spelling mistakes; as of February 2015, about 3,200 of my 17,000 edits have been such edits, including changing "aircrafts" to "aircraft" more than 600 times.

I also find that I make a lot of edits when curiosity dictates that I follow the wikilinks to wherever they go; for example I made this edit then clicked on a wikilink in the article, which led to this edit, then on to another linked article and these edits, then another article and another edit - and lo and behold: more than two hours passes by. To give another example, while searching for instances of "a Australian" to correct, I came across this article about Haig Sare, whom I had never heard of and which didn't contain "a Australian", but which I could see needed work, so I made this edit; I then clicked on a link in the article to search for an appropriate Category to add, which led me to the article about Sare's old school (Sydney Church of England Grammar School) and to make this edit. After clicking on the link in the Hatnote I had created, I made this edit to the List of Old Boys of Shore, then added Haig Sare to the list in another edit. After saving that edit I noticed a formatting issue that I fixed with this edit, then arrived at the bottom of the page, where I found the Category People educated at Sydney Church of England Grammar School, which I then added to the Haig Sare article. That, in a nutshell, is how I end up editing lots of articles a small number of times.

My initial "big-change" edit style and my more recent "edit-and-move-on" style have resulted in an overall average of about two edits per page; however having said that, as of the end of December 2016 I have edited one-hundred-and-one articles more than twenty times each. This includes fifty-eight articles edited more than forty times each, of which nine I edited a-hundred-or-more times, including: 360 edits to the Qantas article; 210 edits to the LaMia Flight 2933 article (in barely more than a month); 180 edits to the Virgin Australia article; and 330 edits - mostly small fixes and copyedits - to the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 article (including 170 edits in the first week-and-a-half following the aircraft's disappearance). My "Top Ten" articles-by-number-of-edits account for more than 1,800 of my 26,500 edits made. January 2015 was the first time I managed to make more than a thousand edits in a month; I also made more than a thousand edits in October 2016 and more than 990 in December the same year. Conversely, there have been two periods of six months during which I made no edits at all; and another six-month period during which I made less than a hundred edits.


 * 4,000th edit was to the PacificFlier article on 10 June 2010; the article was deleted in August 2016
 * 5,000th edit was to add an image to the Pratt & Whitney R-2000 article on 29 March 2011.
 * 6,000th edit was this version of the RotorSport UK Calidus article, on 2 August 2011.
 * 7,000th edit was this version of the No. 3 Squadron RAAF article, on 27 October 2011.
 * 8,000th edit was this version of the Yogyakarta article, on 19 July 2012, coincidently the fifth anniversary of my creating a Wkipedia User account (although I had edited as an IP for some time prior to that).
 * 9,000th edit was this version of the Kremenchuk flight college of National Aviation University article, on 13 November 2012
 * 10,000th edit was this version of the Environmental protection article, on 27 May 2013
 * 11,000th edit was this version of the Hong Kong International Airport article, on 2 July 2013
 * 12,000th edit was this version of the Garrett TPE331 article, on 3 December 2013
 * 13,000th edit was to add an image to the Tigerair Australia article on 26 February 2014
 * 14,000th edit was this version of the Sophia Magdalena of Denmark article, on 18 March 2014
 * 15,000th edit was this version of the Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 450 article, on 12 May 2014
 * 16,000th edit was this version of the Fiji Airways article, on 20 January 2015
 * 17,000th edit was this version of the Kelly Hoppen article, on 4 February 2015
 * 18,000th edit was this version of the Skytrans Airlines article, on 27 March 2015
 * 19,000th edit was this version of the Mustafa Yılmaz article, on 17 May 2015
 * 20,000th edit was this version of the Trigana Air Service Flight 257 article, on 18 August 2015
 * 21,000th edit was this version of the East Star Airlines article, on 12 April 2016
 * 22,000th edit was this version of the Indian Air Force article, on 20 May 2016
 * 23,000th edit was this version of the List of aircraft of the Swiss Air Force, on 8 August 2016
 * 24,000th edit was this version of the Air New Zealand article, on 15 October 2016
 * 25,000th edit was this version of the Virgin America destinations list, on 13 November 2016
 * 26,000th edit was this version of the Interjet article, on 17 December 2016
 * 27,000th edit was this version of the United Airlines Flight 175 article, on 24 January 2017
 * 28,000th edit was this version of the 2016 Indonesian Police PZL M28 Skytruck crash article, on 16 June 2017
 * "Tenth Anniversary" edit since registering an account was the 28,292nd edit made, this version of the Gujarat Beechcraft incident article, on 19 July 2017
 * 29,000th edit was this version of the Sunna (band) article, on 17 December 2017 - the 114th anniversary of the first successful flights by the Wright brothers in the Wright Flyer and the 82nd anniversary of the first flight of the Douglas DC-3
 * 30,000th edit was this version of the Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 article, on 22 April 2018
 * 31,000th edit was this version of the Fulda article, on 7 November 2018
 * 32,000th edit was a !vote on an Articles for Deletion discussion page, on 19 March 2019
 * 33,000th edit was this version of the Ralf Little article, on 17 December 2020 - the 117th anniversary of the first successful flights by the Wright brothers in the Wright Flyer and the 85th anniversary of the first flight of the Douglas DC-3

= Aircraft, airlines and journeys =

Aircraft types I have worked on during my career
*****


 * Aero Commander
 * 500S Shrike Commander; 681 Hawk Commander


 * Aérospatiale
 * AS 350 Ecureuil; AS 355 Twin Squirrel


 * AESL
 * CT/4A Airtrainer


 * Agusta Aerospace Corporation
 * A119 Koala


 * Alpha Aviation
 * R2160 Alpha Sport


 * Beechcraft
 * D17S Staggerwing
 * D18S Expediter
 * A23 and A23A Musketeer; C23 Sundowner; C24R Sierra
 * F33A Bonanza; S35 and V35 Bonanza; A36 and G36 Bonanza
 * 95-55, D55A and 58 Baron
 * A60 Duke
 * 65-B80 Queen Air (Excalibur Conversion); A65-8200 Commuter
 * 76 Duchess
 * 77 Skipper
 * 65-A90, C90SE and C90GTi King Air
 * D95A Travel Air
 * 200 and 200T Super King Air; B200, B200C and B200GT King Air
 * B300 King Air 350 and 350i; B300C King Air 350C
 * 1900C and 1900D Airliner


 * Bell Aircraft
 * P-39F Airacobra


 * Bell Helicopter
 * 206 Jetranger; 206L LongRanger
 * 407 and 407GX
 * 412EP
 * 505 Jet Ranger X
 * AH-1S Cobra
 * UH-1B Iroquois


 * Bellanca
 * 8KCAB Decathlon


 * Boeing (Stearman Division)
 * A75N1


 * Bristol Aeroplane Company
 * Beaufighter
 * Beaufort


 * British Aerospace
 * Jetstream 31 and 32
 * Jetstream 41


 * British Aircraft Corporation
 * 167 Strikemaster


 * Britten-Norman
 * BN-2 Islander; BN-2T Turbine Islander


 * Canadian Car and Foundry
 * Harvard 4


 * Cessna
 * 150 series
 * 152 series
 * 172 series; 172RG
 * 177; 177RG Cutlass
 * 180
 * 182 series
 * A185E
 * A188
 * 206 series
 * 208 Caravan; 208B Grand Caravan, Grand Caravan EX and Super Cargomaster
 * 210A, 210D, P210N and 210R Centurion; P210N Silver Eagle
 * 310B, 310Q and 310R
 * 337 series
 * 340 and 340A
 * 401
 * 402A and 402B
 * 404 Titan
 * 411A
 * 414A Chancellor
 * 421B and 421C Golden Eagle
 * 441 Conquest II
 * 500 Citation I; 501 Citation I-SP
 * 510 Citation Mustang
 * 525 CitationJet, CJ1, CJ1+ and M2; 525A CJ2; 525B CJ3; 525C CJ4
 * 550 Citation II and Citation Bravo; 551 Citation II-SP
 * 560 Citation Ultra and Citation Encore
 * 650 Citation III and Citation VII
 * 680 Sovereign
 * 750 Citation X
 * O-1A, O-1E and O-1G Bird Dog


 * Cirrus Design
 * SR20


 * Colonial Aircraft Corporation
 * C-2 Skimmer


 * Columbia Aircraft
 * Columbia 400


 * Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation
 * CA-12 Boomerang
 * CA-16 Wirraway
 * CA-18 Mk.22 Mustang
 * CA-25 Winjeel


 * Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft
 * PBY-6A Catalina


 * Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA
 * C.212-200 Aviocar


 * Convair
 * C-131F Samaritan


 * Czech Aircraft Works
 * SportCruiser


 * Avions Marcel Dassault-Breguet Aviation/Dassault Aviation
 * Falcon 20F-5
 * Falcon 50 and Falcon 50EX
 * Falcon 200
 * Falcon 900C and 900EX EASy
 * Falcon 2000, 2000LX and 2000LXS
 * Falcon 7X


 * de Havilland Australia
 * DH 115 Vampire T.35


 * de Havilland Canada
 * DHC-2 Beaver
 * DHC-4 Caribou
 * DHC-6 Twin Otter


 * Diamond Aircraft Industries
 * DA40
 * DA42 NG
 * DA62


 * Douglas Aircraft Company
 * DC-3
 * C-47 Dakota
 * DC-8-62


 * Embraer
 * EMB 110 Bandeirante series


 * Fairchild
 * SA226-TC Metro II and Metro IIA
 * SA226-AT Merlin IVA
 * SA227-AC Metro III
 * SA227-AT Merlin IVC and Expediter
 * SA227-DC Metro 23


 * Found Aircraft
 * FBA-2C3 Expedition E350


 * Grob Aerospace
 * G 115A


 * Grumman
 * F7F Tigercat
 * S-2E Tracker


 * American Aviation/Grumman American
 * AA-1 series
 * AA-5 series
 * GA-7 Cougar


 * Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation
 * Y-12 (II)


 * Hawker Siddeley
 * HS.125-3B


 * Hughes Helicopters
 * 300C
 * 500D


 * Hunting Percival/BAC
 * Jet Provost series


 * Kawasaki Heavy Industries Aerospace Company
 * BK 117 B-2


 * Lake Aircraft Corporation
 * LA4 Buccaneer
 * LA4-250 Renegade


 * Lockheed
 * 10A Electra
 * 1049F Super Constellation
 * C-130H Hercules
 * SP-2H Neptune


 * Maule
 * M-7 series


 * Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm
 * BK 117 B-2


 * Mikoyan-Gurevich
 * MiG-21UM


 * Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
 * MU-2B-25, MU-2B-30, MU-2B-35 and MU-2B-36A


 * Mooney
 * M20C Ranger/M20F Executive 21; M20J 201 and 205; M20K 231 and 252; M20L PFM


 * Avions Mudry
 * CAP 10B


 * SNCA du Nord
 * 1002 Pingouin


 * North American
 * Harvard III; AT-6D Texan
 * T-28D Trojan


 * Pacific Aerospace
 * Cresco


 * Partenavia
 * P.68 series


 * Rinaldo Piaggio S.p.A.
 * P.166 and P.166B Portofino


 * Pilatus Aircraft
 * PC-12/45 and PC-12/47E


 * Piper
 * PA-18-150 Super Cub
 * PA-22-108 Colt
 * PA-23-250 Aztec
 * PA-28 Cherokee/Warrior series
 * PA-28R-200 Arrow series
 * PA-30 and PA-39 Twin Comanche
 * PA-31 Navajo/Chieftain series
 * PA-31T Cheyenne II
 * PA-32-300 Cherokee Six
 * PA-32R Lance/Saratoga series
 * PA-34 Seneca series
 * PA-38-112 Tomahawk
 * PA-44-180 Seminole
 * PA-46-310P Malibu; PA-46-350P Mirage/M350; JetPROP DLX
 * PA-60 Aerostar series


 * Pitts
 * S-2A Special


 * PZL Mielec
 * SB Lim-2
 * Lim-6
 * TS-11bis DF Iskra


 * Raytheon Aircraft Company
 * Hawker 400XP
 * Premier IA


 * Republic Aviation
 * P-47D Thunderbolt


 * Robinson Helicopter Company
 * R44


 * Rockwell
 * 114A Commander
 * 690 and 690A Turbo Commander


 * Saab
 * SF340A, 340A, 340B and 340BPlus


 * Scottish Aviation
 * Twin Pioneer Series 3


 * Short Brothers
 * SC.7 Skyvan


 * SIAI-Marchetti
 * S.205-22R


 * Sikorsky Aircraft
 * CH-54A Aircrane
 * S-76A Spirit


 * SOCATA/DAHER-SOCATA
 * TB9 Tampico; TB10 Tobago; TB20 Trinidad
 * TBM 700; TBM 850 Elite


 * Ted Smith Aircraft Company
 * 600 series Aerostar


 * Transavia
 * PL-12 Airtruk


 * Van's Aircraft
 * RV-8

Aircraft in which I have flown
*****

An autogyro of unknown type
 * Aero Commander
 * 500S Shrike Commander


 * Aerospatiale
 * AS 350 Ecureuil
 * AS 355 Twin Squirrel


 * Airbus
 * A310
 * A318
 * A319
 * A320 and A320neo
 * A321
 * A330-200 and -300
 * A340-300/-500/-600
 * A380


 * Avions de Transport Régional
 * ATR 72-500 and -600


 * Beechcraft
 * A23A Musketeer
 * F33A Bonanza
 * 58 Baron
 * 76 Duchess
 * 200T Super King Air and B200 King Air
 * B300 King Air 350
 * 1900C and 1900D


 * Bell
 * 206 Jetranger
 * 206L Longranger
 * 407GX
 * 505 Jet Ranger X


 * Boeing
 * 717
 * 727-200
 * 737-200/-300/-400/-500/-700/-800/-900ER
 * 747-400 and -400ER
 * 757-200 and -300
 * 767-200/200ER and -300ER
 * 777-200ER, -200LR and -300ER
 * 787-8 and -9


 * British Aerospace
 * BAe 146-100
 * Jetstream 31 and 32
 * Jetstream 41


 * Britten-Norman
 * BN-2 Islander


 * Canadair/Bombardier Aerospace
 * CRJ200
 * CRJ700 and CRJ701ER
 * CRJ900
 * CRJ1000


 * Canadian Vickers
 * OA-10A Catalina


 * CASA
 * C.212-200 Aviocar


 * Cessna
 * 152
 * 172 Skyhawk
 * 182 Skylane
 * 208 Caravan and 208B Grand Caravan EX
 * P210 Centurion
 * 310B/310Q/310R
 * 340A
 * 402A and 402B
 * 421B Golden Eagle
 * 441 Conquest II
 * 510 Citation Mustang
 * 525B CJ3
 * 650 Citation VII
 * 750 Citation X *
 * O-1E Bird Dog

 * The highest altitude I have ever been (flight level 470 - approximately 47000 ft) and the fastest speed I have ever moved over the surface of the earth (707 mph)
 * Cirrus Design
 * SR20


 * Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation
 * CA-16 Wirraway
 * CA-25 Winjeel


 * Dassault Aviation
 * Falcon 50


 * de Havilland
 * DH.114 Heron


 * de Havilland Australia
 * DHA-3 Drover


 * de Havilland Canada/Bombardier Aerospace
 * DHC-2 Beaver
 * DHC-8 Dash 8 series 100/series 200/Q300/Q400


 * Dornier
 * Do 228-200


 * Douglas
 * DC-3/C-47 Dakota
 * DC-9


 * Embraer
 * EMB 110 Bandeirante
 * ERJ-145XR
 * ERJ-170 and -175
 * ERJ-190 and -195


 * Eurocopter
 * EC130 B4


 * Fairchild
 * SA226-TC Metro II
 * SA227-AC Metro III
 * SA227-DC Metro 23


 * Fokker
 * F27 Friendship
 * F27 Mk. 050 (Fokker 50)
 * F28 Mk. 0070 (Fokker 70)


 * Glasair Aviation
 * SH-3R Glasair III


 * Harbin
 * Y-12 (IV)


 * Kawasaki
 * BK 117 B-2


 * Lockheed
 * SP-2H Neptune
 * 1049F Super Constellation


 * McDonnell Douglas
 * MD-11
 * MD-83
 * MD-88


 * Mitsubishi
 * MU-2B-30 and -35


 * Mooney
 * M20J 201


 * SNCA du Nord
 * 1002 Pingouin


 * North American
 * T-28D Trojan


 * Piper
 * PA-28-140 Cherokee and -151 Warrior
 * PA-28R-200 Arrow
 * PA-31-310 Navajo and PA-31-350 Chieftain
 * PA-32-300 Cherokee Six
 * PA-44-180 Seminole


 * Avions Pierre Robin
 * DR400


 * Robinson
 * R44


 * Rockwell
 * 690A Turbo Commander


 * Saab
 * SF340A/B/B+


 * Sikorsky
 * S-76A


 * Supermarine
 * Spitfire Tr.9


 * Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation
 * MA60

Airlines and journeys
*****

Airlines I have flown on (in order of travel):
 * AvDev (1 flight)
 * Air New South Wales (1)
 * Trans Australia Airlines (~6)
 * Ansett Australia (~10)
 * Qantas (60+)
 * Scandinavian Airlines (4)
 * Maersk Air (2)
 * Singapore Airlines (6)
 * Lufthansa (4)
 * Airlink (2)
 * Pel-Air (6)
 * Jetcraft Aviation (3)
 * Airtex Aviation (2)
 * Hazelton Airlines (1)
 * Eastern Australia Airlines (2)
 * Freedom Air (2)
 * Ansett Australia operated by Kendell Airlines (1)
 * Virgin Blue/Virgin Australia (500+)
 * British Airways (9)
 * Iberia Airlines (2)
 * Cathay Pacific (1)
 * Finnair (2)
 * Widerøe (1)
 * Landsflug (2)
 * easyJet (1)
 * American Airlines (4)
 * Regional Express Airlines (~30)
 * Air Link (1)
 * Southwest Airlines (2)
 * Jetstar Airways (36)
 * United Express operated by SkyWest Airlines (2)
 * Riau Airlines (1)
 * Indonesia Air Transport (1)
 * Garuda Indonesia (2)
 * Tiger Airways Australia (1)
 * Tasair (2)
 * Air Vanuatu (4)
 * Spanair (1)
 * TAP Portugal (1)
 * QantasLink operated by Eastern Australia Airlines (49)
 * Etihad Airways (16)
 * Lufthansa Regional operated by Augsburg Airways (1)
 * Tyrolean Airways (1)
 * Virgin Australia operated by Skywest Airlines/Virgin Australia Regional Airlines (26)
 * Brindabella Airlines (4)
 * Brindabella Airlines operated by Aeropelican Air Services (1)
 * SilkAir (3)
 * Merpati Nusantara Airlines (1)
 * Emirates (2)
 * China Eastern Airlines (2)
 * China Eastern Airlines operated by Shanghai Airlines (1)
 * QantasLink operated by National Jet (1)
 * Virgin Australia New Zealand operated by Virgin Australia International Airlines (2)
 * Air New Zealand Link operated by Eagle Airways (1)
 * Air New Zealand Link operated by Air Nelson (1)
 * Air New Zealand (11)
 * Hawaiian Airlines (4)
 * Virgin Australia (SE Asia) operated by Virgin Australia International Airlines (5)
 * Air New Zealand Link operated by Mount Cook Airline (1)
 * Sounds Air (2)
 * Air France (4)
 * United Express operated by ExpressJet (1)
 * American Eagle operated by ExpressJet (1)
 * American Eagle operated by Mesa Airlines (1)
 * United Express operated by Trans States Airlines (1)
 * United Airlines (1)
 * Brussels Airlines (1)
 * Ryanair (1)
 * Alitalia operated by Alitalia CityLiner (1)
 * Batik Air (1)
 * Citilink (1)
 * HOP! operated by Régional Compagnie Aérienne Européenne (2)
 * HOP! operated by Brit Air (2)
 * Air Europa Express (1)
 * Volotea (1)
 * Virgin Australia operated by Virgin Australia International Airlines (4)
 * NAM Air (1)
 * Indonesia AirAsia (1)
 * AirAsia (1)
 * Malaysia Airlines (1)
 * Delta Air Lines (13)
 * Delta Connection operated by SkyWest Airlines (1)

Australian Domestic flights (in rough order of travel) - airline and general aviation
 * YSBK - YCBA/return
 * YSBK - YRYL/return
 * YRYL - YCBA/return
 * YCBA - SYD
 * DBO - SYD/return
 * YCBA - Tilpa, New South Wales/return
 * SYD - YRYL
 * YCBA - YWLG/return
 * YSBK - DGE - YCBA
 * YCBA - YYNG/return
 * YCBA - YCUA/return
 * YSBK - YWRN - YCBA
 * YCBA - BNE/return
 * SYD - YKMP
 * YKMP - YCBA
 * SYD - YWOL/return
 * SYD - YMND/return
 * YSBK - DBO - YCBA
 * CBR - SYD
 * YSBK - YCNK/return
 * SYD - MEL/return
 * YSBK - YSRI/return
 * YSBK - ABX - YWGT - YMMB
 * YMMB - YTYA - AVV
 * AVV - YMMB/return
 * AVV - ABX - YSBK
 * YSBK - YHOX/return
 * YSBK - YSCN/return
 * YSBK - WGA/return
 * SYD - BNE
 * YBAF - YSBK
 * BNE - PPP/return
 * YSBK - YSNW/return
 * YSBK - YWLM/return
 * YSNW- SYD
 * DGE - YCWR
 * YCWR - YSBK
 * YSBK - YMNG/return
 * SYD - TSV/return
 * SYD - AVV/return
 * YSBK - TMW
 * SYD - ADL
 * YPED - YSBK
 * YSBK - PKS/return
 * YSBK - MYA/return
 * YWBN - Luskintyre Airfield/return
 * SYD - OOL/return
 * YSBK - BHS/return
 * SYD - BNK/return
 * YSBK - TRO - YWLM - YSBK
 * SYD - WGA/return
 * SYD - PER/return
 * SYD - BHS/return
 * SYD - GFF/return
 * SYD - NRA/return
 * SYD - MYA/return
 * SYD - LSY - BNK - SYD
 * SYD - MIM/return
 * SYD - HBA/return
 * HBA - MEL/return
 * MEL - BWT/return
 * MEL - BNE/return
 * MEL - MQL/return
 * HBA - DPO/return
 * HBA - BNE/return
 * HBA - CBR
 * CBR - LST
 * BNE - TMW/return
 * CBR - NTL/return
 * MEL - PER/return
 * CBR - NBR/return
 * NTL - BNE
 * NTL - SYD
 * SYD - DGE/return
 * PER - BNE
 * CBR - TMW/return
 * CBR - OOL
 * SYD - ARM/return
 * YSBK - OAG/return
 * SYD - WTB/return
 * SYD - CNS/return
 * BNE - YSBK
 * YSBK - YMOR/return
 * SYD - TMW
 * BNE - CNS/return
 * SYD - DRW/return

Flights outside Australia
 * 1990 SYD - SIN - CPH - AAR; BLL - SEN/return; AAR - CPH - SIN - SYD
 * 1991 SYD - MEL - BKK - FRA - HAM; HAM - FRA - BKK - SYD
 * 2000 SYD - DUD; HLZ - SYD
 * 2002 SYD - LAX; LAX - LHR; MAN - CDG; ORY - BCN; BCN - IST; IST - LHR - JNB; JNB - SYD
 * 2003 SYD - CHC/return
 * 2006 SYD - HKG - HEL; HEL - IVL; HVG - HFT - TOS; OSL - LHR; LGW - KEF; RKV - VEY/return; KEF - LGW/LHR - LYS; MUC - STN; LHR - ORD - SFO; SFO - SYD
 * 2007 SYD - LAX - BNA/return
 * 2008 SYD - LAX - TUS/return
 * MEL - DPS; DPS - LBJ; LBJ - DPS - JOG; JOG - DPS; DPS - MEL
 * 2009 SYD - VLI; VLI - TAH/return; VLI - SYD
 * 2010 MEL - HKG - LHR - BCN; BCN - SCQ; OPO - LGW; LHR - SIN - MEL
 * 2011 MEL - AUH - MUC - VIE; VIE - INN; MUC - AUH - MEL
 * 2012 PER - DPS/return
 * 2013 SYD - SIN; SIN - LOP; LOP - DPS; DPS - PER
 * 2014 MEL - HKG - BKK - DXB * ; DXB - KMG - PVG; PVG - MEL

* Circuitous routing due to a volcanic eruption closing Indonesian airspace
 * 2015 SYD - CHC; CHC - BHE; BHE - AKL - SYD
 * SYD - HNL - KNA; ITO - HNL; HNL - SYD
 * SYD - AKL; AKL - BNE - SYD
 * 2016 SYD - DPS/return
 * SYD - SIN/return
 * 2017 SYD - CHC; CHC - WLG - BHE; BHE - WLG - SYD
 * SYD - AUH - LHR; ORY - BOD; TLS - CDG - SYD
 * SYD - AKL - IAH - ICT; ICT - DFW - MAF/return; ICT - DEN - LAX - AKL - SYD
 * 2018 SYD - DPS; DPS - BNE - SYD
 * SYD - AKL/return
 * SYD - AKL/return
 * SYD - AUH - BRU - TXL; SXF - TSF; LIN - NAP; FCO - AUH - CGK; HLP - MLG; SUB - DPS - SYD
 * SYD - AUH - CDG - BOD; BOD - LIL/return; BOD - ORY/return; BIO - MAD; MAD - BOD; BOD - CDG - AUH - SYD
 * 2019 SYD - DPS; DPS - JOG/return; DPS - SYD
 * SYD - SIN - KUL; KUL - SDK/return; KUL - SIN - SYD
 * SYD - AKL/return
 * 2020 SYD - LAX - ATL - ICT; ICT - ATL - PNS; VPS - ATL - ICT; ICT - ATL - DAY/return; ICT - MSP - LAX - SYD

Joyflight locations
 * Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia
 * Kaikoura, New Zealand
 * Rhône Valley, Southern France
 * Blenheim, New Zealand
 * Fox Glacier, New Zealand
 * Watt's Bridge, Queensland, Australia
 * The Twelve Apostles, Victoria, Australia
 * Corio Bay, Victoria, Australia
 * Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia
 * Island of Hawai'i, Hawaii, USA
 * Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
 * Hilo
 * Kohala
 * Mauna Kea
 * Mauna Loa
 * Pololū Valley
 * Upolu Point
 * Waihilau Falls
 * Waimanu Valley
 * Wao Kele o Puna

Maritime journeys
 * Cook Strait Ferry (Interislander) New Zealand, northbound
 * Norway's Hurtigruten from Tromsø to Svolvær
 * Moskenes, Lofoten Islands, Norway to Bodø, Norway
 * Bass Strait Ferry Australia, both directions

= My images =

I have been taking photographs of aircraft for almost 30 years and have a reasonably large collection (believe me when I say there are people out there with much bigger collections than mine); I estimate that it is about 30,000 photos, of which about two thirds are digital images - the rest were taken on colour film. I still prefer film, but I have to admit that digital images are easier to work with; I sometimes take a photo of an aircraft with my film camera then take a digital photo as well. The images I have uploaded for use in articles are below.

Unedited images
None of these images have been treated or altered in any way:

Edited images
These images have been have been edited using Picasa software:

Converted images
These images are digital versions of photos taken with a 35mm film SLR camera:

Other images
Images other than those showing complete aircraft that I have uploaded to illustrate articles:

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