Happy Birthday!

It's your day, Mark!  :)

So watch that drink!
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Thanks Guys.

I'm old now. I never got to have that beer today, hopefully tomorrow instead. Not a worry though, I don't drink much alcohol these days. Luckily for me, there are no ferrets around here!

Mark

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday Mark :D
Ron

Happy birthday, Mark.


Markoz wrote on Sep 21^st, 2011 at 3:07pm:

...I'm old now. I never got to have that beer today, hopefully tomorrow instead... Mark

:'(

So, maybe it would be better to get a glass of milk...On the rocks....Cheers!!! ;D

Pinatubo.

Happy Birthday Markoz! Thanks for all of your help to every customer of Captain Si, no matter their problem.

Pinatubo wrote on Sep 21^st, 2011 at 4:44pm:

So, maybe it would be better to get a glass of milk...On the rocks....Cheers!!! ;D

Ouch! That makes me feel ancient! Like I'm very old and wrinkly and without teeth! :D

Mark, I will do an Australian 707 flight with the cool MarkOZ/Fosters Airlines paint from Nathan later.  :)

By the way, where's Nathan? Haven't seen him in a while.

Happy Birthday :)

Old? Old? You're only as old as the woman you feel.  ;D

Lou

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Happy birthday, Markoz!

Enjoy your cake!  ;)

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@Lou. Yipee! I suddenly feel young again. Love the picture. ;D

@NNewcomb. Nice cake. Thanks.

@CoolP. Yeah. Where is Nathan? I hope he is well. :(

@Everyone. Thank you.

The thing I hate about birthdays is that spend 365 days (or 366 in a leap year) sneaking up on you. :-/

Mark

CoolP wrote on Sep 21^st, 2011 at 6:11pm:

Mark, I will do an Australian 707 flight with the cool MarkOZ/Fosters Airlines paint from Nathan later.  :) By the way, where's Nathan? Haven't seen him in a while.

his last twitter post says he's doing trucking in England right now...

701151 wrote on Sep 21^st, 2011 at 11:32pm:

CoolP wrote on Sep 21st, 2011 at 6:11pm: Mark, I will do an Australian 707 flight with the cool MarkOZ/Fosters Airlines paint from Nathan later.  :) By the way, where's Nathan? Haven't seen him in a while. his last twitter post says he's doing trucking in England right now...

Hi Peter.

Trucking in Real Life? I would have thought that might be a bit too stressful.

Mark

Indeed!

Happy Birthday Markoz...I'll have a BEEEER for ya mate. A cool crisp Canadian !!  Cheers.

Buon compleanno to the virtual support pilot ;)

Glad to read that Nathans is rollin'.  :)


Here's a small report of the annual Mark-OZ 707 flight from Melbourne to Perth, in the livery Nathan has done.

We start at Melbourne, with all those fancy modern planes parked around us.
We don't care, we obviously are flying the most beautiful one out there and the passengers will get Fosters being served right after boarding, so it is the funniest flight too!

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The passengers may enjoy a ride in the fleet's flagship now, which derives from the fact that it's the only ship so far.  ;D

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Having the 707 close to MTOW, every runway becomes a short runway for takeoff, so even the longer Melbourne ones don't offer plenty of room then.
But, as you may guess, the Captain is very confident about the plane, the takeoff and the repaint.  :P

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The takeoff worked and we can now enjoy what's coming out of the engines.
See, those Foster painted pods actually work!
(Don't forget the seatbelts going to 'off' now since the Fosters already has built up some pressure)

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The cruise FL took some time to be reached, but then we could enjoy the trip westwards, towards Perth and some longer water passage in between.

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Here's our descent picture, the engines are still looking and working great and the Flight Engineer is still happy.

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The approach towards Perth was an easy one. No bad weather on the scope, ILS working, not much traffic. Our now drunk crew has an easy job!

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They even found the right exit and since they still have their sunglasses on the optics are great!
(They would always wear them, even in the darkness)

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Once again, all the fancy sissy bird drivers have already parked their equipment, but we may find a free spot to place ours then.

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We have to train the parking part a bit, which isn't easy with that sort of fuel in our blood.  :o

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Thanks for flying with us and our beautiful 707.  :)

Thanks for the commentary on the flight. Whenever I fly that livery, I feel like I'm flying a can of Fosters! But it's a really nice personalized livery that Nathan did for me.

Mark

Markoz wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2011 at 12:58pm:

Thanks for the commentary on the flight. Whenever I fly that livery, I feel like I'm flying a can of Fosters! But it's a really nice personalized livery that Nathan did for me. Mark

They're both aluminum! You never know, your foster's can could have been a 707 once  ;D  :'(

All the best to you on your birthday, Mark!

Bruce

Shoot. I didn't go on the forums yesterday, and look what I missed! Happy belated birthday, Mark!

I wonder what the personal airlines for other CS forum members would look like... Considering my piloting skills, there would probably be large "Warning: You fly Boeing247 Airlines at your own risk!"  :D

Many happy returns, hope you had a good one. How's the HDD problem going?

An Ancient
Silverbeard21

All fixed now thank you. Just got to do a heap of reinstalling of stuff. But I will get there eventually.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARKOZ!!  :D

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Mark, I'm sure it is never too late to wish you happy birthday! All the best regards from our team and from me personally.

Tanya. It's never too late. Besides. You were away on holidays at the time. :)

I would also like to thank you all again. In the end I just had a quiet family day with my wife, our 3 grown up children.

The interesting part is that it lasted a long time because of all the different time zones around the world that members live in. It lasted almost two days! What a party that would be in Real Life! ;D

Mark

Markoz wrote on Oct 1^st, 2011 at 2:44am:

The interesting part is that it lasted a long time because of all the different time zones around the world that members live in. It lasted almost two days! What a party that would be in Real Life!

One year you should charter a jet and see how long you can stay on the same day.  ;D