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Speaker 1: Christ Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Christian O'Connor Show This morning, I want to know where

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Speaker 2: are all the planes? What has happened to the airplanes?

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Speaker 2: Where they're being stored? And if there any pilots listening.

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Speaker 2: Surely the planes that are all grounded at the moment,

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Speaker 2: they need to be maintained. They must be taken up

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Speaker 2: for a spin or something once a month, or the

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Speaker 2: tires pumped up a bit with some big old the

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Speaker 2: size of the old thing to get the tires pumped

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Speaker 2: up on a plane, they kind of be sat on

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Speaker 2: a runway parts messily. They'll all be lined up somewhere.

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Speaker 2: Where are all the planes? That's what all this morning.

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Speaker 2: And Patsy believes that she thinks may be connected to this.

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Speaker 2: It's the fact there are more, apparently called to Patsy

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Speaker 2: birds in the sky right now.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's going to work. Glenn, Good morning.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, Christian. How are you this morning?

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Speaker 3: I'm good Glenn, Glenn. Where are all the airplanes?

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Speaker 4: Well, they're parked at everyone. And tell themarine I drive

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Speaker 4: past Evylon every day and probably see twenty or more there.

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Speaker 4: And tell Amarine you can probably see ten from the freeway.

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Speaker 4: But the probably a lot more there as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, ten is in. There's a whole fleet of planes

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Speaker 3: and accounted for hundreds.

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Speaker 2: Now we're going to you know, I mean, Glenn, thank you,

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Speaker 2: you've accounted for thirty of them.

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Speaker 4: I agree. I agree with Petty. There is a lot

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Speaker 4: more birds in the sky around were because I live

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Speaker 4: there and they wake me up every morning, I want

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Speaker 4: to shotgun and shoot them.

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Speaker 2: Well, okay, we've got Sir David anmro on the line.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to do that.

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Speaker 2: Is it not the time of the year, as it's

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Speaker 2: getting a bit more mind as we head towards spring,

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Speaker 2: I don't care.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Glenn, thank you again.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: There we go.

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Speaker 2: That's the spirit, Australian spirit. Okay, So still no rule answers.

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Speaker 2: Some of the planes are definitely avalon, which is.

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Speaker 3: A given, but that won't be all of them. And

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Speaker 3: where are the ones in the desert? Is that true?

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Speaker 1: Do we.

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Speaker 3: Because there aren't just thirty planes in Australia? Please?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know, you know whatever, I'm basing

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Speaker 2: my noise on seeing the Flying Doctor as a kid,

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Speaker 2: you know, and all my knowledge of aviation in Australia.

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Speaker 2: Are they just thirty airplanes in Australia to ferry us around.

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Speaker 3: And I would love to know the ones that are grounded.

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Speaker 3: Do you have to take them up every couple of

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Speaker 3: months just to keep them first?

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Speaker 2: A few donuts and stuff like that up there.

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Speaker 3: Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to consider today's show done until we

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Speaker 2: have spoken to a commercial pilot. We haven't spoken to

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Speaker 2: any of the last ten minutes.

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Speaker 3: I get it. They're not flying at the moment. They're

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Speaker 3: sleeping in your records. They are, you know, the.

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Speaker 2: Cap, the uniform, the aviator shades on the nightstand. You know,

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Speaker 2: maybe they polished them once a day. Going one day,

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Speaker 2: my friends will be.

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Speaker 3: Back up there in the Big Blue. That's what they

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Speaker 3: call it, pilots. They call it the Big Blue when

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Speaker 3: those pilots wake up midday or whatever.

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Speaker 2: Up to now, you know, we need to speak to

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Speaker 2: a pilot because we need to know where are all

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Speaker 2: the airplanes. We've accounted for thirty of us for the

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Speaker 2: zero planes right now, ten Avalon and around about twenty

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Speaker 2: at Tolmarene Marine, and only accounts for thirty. There are

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Speaker 2: more than thirty airplanes in this big old country. Okay,

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Speaker 2: so we need to know where are they. And also

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Speaker 2: the second question is how are they looking after the

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Speaker 2: airplanes because you can't just leave an out plane there

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Speaker 2: for like two years you get all rusty and stuff

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Speaker 2: like that.

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Speaker 3: You know they're worth millions.

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Speaker 2: If you had like a Bentley or a Rolls Royce car,

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Speaker 2: you know you'd be looking after that. You have to

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Speaker 2: take them up for a drive, don't you get the

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Speaker 2: old dust sheet off?

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Speaker 3: John's on the line, John, good morning?

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Speaker 4: All are I is? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Good Johnny? Your pieop top gum?

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Speaker 1: No, just someone who's keen on aviation, all right, what

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Speaker 1: can you tell us? So? Yes, there are planes parked

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Speaker 1: at airports all around Australia. Up in Brisbane when they

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Speaker 1: first started parking them up there's a runway that's not

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Speaker 1: been hasn't been commissioned yet, so they're actually parking them

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Speaker 1: on that runway. And yeah, as Patty said, there is

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Speaker 1: an If I've been Alice Springs staring area which share

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Speaker 1: they've got a lot of them parked up there.

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Speaker 3: How many do you reckon there would be in Alae

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Speaker 3: Springs Then.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't tay off the top of my head. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: I vaguely remember seeing there would have been about thirty

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Speaker 1: or forty up there. But there is also a fields

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Speaker 1: thirty they are somewhere right now.

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Speaker 3: Someone's got the planes.

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Speaker 1: There is a couple of airfields over in the US

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Speaker 1: in Arizona, my Harvey, where there's just hundreds and hundreds

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Speaker 1: of planes there.

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Speaker 2: Are they all the Australians? And tell me about sort

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Speaker 2: of maintaining the planes? Are they taking them up once

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Speaker 2: a month for a little burnout?

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Speaker 4: Are they now?

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Speaker 1: They don't take them up, but they do have to

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Speaker 1: do checks on them. So they run the engines up

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Speaker 1: on the ground and just go through and check each one.

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Speaker 2: Doing that plane monkey right.

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Speaker 1: All the air fields have got their own mechanics, so

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Speaker 1: they go around and check them all.

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Speaker 4: Ye.

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Speaker 1: John's actually our YouTube docer that I watched the other

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Speaker 1: day where they actually go through and tell you everything

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Speaker 1: they do, walk after the planes, not checking all control.

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Speaker 3: What's it called? You know what it's called?

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Speaker 4: Or I can't remember it? Sorry?

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Speaker 2: If I just type in their little search engine airplane documentary,

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Speaker 2: it must be only a couple on there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're punching COVID airlines that will probably come up.

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Speaker 3: Then a bit of a darker search thank you very

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Speaker 3: much for help.

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Speaker 4: No problem.

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Speaker 2: Good, thank you very much. We've got another journal line.

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Speaker 2: Now if tell you what about John's They.

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Speaker 3: Love a plane aviation.

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Speaker 2: Come over John's you're sounding hi about planes, and all

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Speaker 2: over you John at the other John, John, Oh, John,

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Speaker 2: what can you tell us about planes?

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Speaker 5: Just jump on Google type in our Springs airport. You'll

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Speaker 5: see we need.

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Speaker 2: You producing the show. I mean we could have said

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Speaker 2: twenty five minutes of radio. Just jump on Google.

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Speaker 5: Well, if if you're type in our Springs airport, you'll

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Speaker 5: see most of the Singapore Airlines as fleet that was

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Speaker 5: here in Australia parked out there a three eighties and

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Speaker 5: all the way down.

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Speaker 1: Right, So we're holding not only holding all our own planes,

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Speaker 1: we're holding out other countries planes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yep, but with the world's can't park for planes.

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Speaker 5: But they do mothball them, and they mothball them for

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Speaker 5: for for a for a set.

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Speaker 3: Period with what do you mean them.

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Speaker 5: Well, they seal up, the seal up the aircraft, seal

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Speaker 5: up the engines, so vermon can't get in.

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Speaker 3: And they want to suit jacket bag they airport loft

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Speaker 3: suitcases or the lost property. The Christian O'Connell Show podcast,