For 27 years the Lord Howe flying boats always delivered passengers safely, thanks to the engineers who kept them in the air and on the water. This is the remarkable story of Noel Holle, Ansett’s Chief Maintenance Inspector.
In Spanish, Reposado means ‘calm or peaceful rest’, but being shipwrecked could hardly be described as a ‘peaceful’ event ... It was an inglorious end to a top-end boat that had begun life as the Taconite, a luxury motor cruiser commissioned by Bill Boeing, the founder of the Boeing Aircraft Company.
