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<Sunday Night Television
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<I know you are all aware of this event, but I thought I might 'remind' you
< anyway. I for one know I nearly missed the right day.
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<Sunday night, April 30, at 9 pm, TBS will broadcast a National Geographic
< Special about the recent flight from England to Australia of a replica
Vicker
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< Vimy in celebration of the 75th aniversary of the original flight between
the
<e
< two countries in 1919. Interesting is that the original flight was
completed
<in under 30 days, the recent version required 42.
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<The May issue of National Geographic has a (coincidently, or not) 42 page
<article you might want to see as well.
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<Please check your local listings and load up your VCR's with some new tape.
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<Thayer (my Proctor Jenny arrived Tuesday!!) Syme
<San Francisco
Not in Australia unfortunately. Only consolation I have is having watched it
fly over my house, then at the airshow here in Brisbane some months back.
FYI the original aircraft is in Adelaide, South Australia.
Shane Weier