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By 1969, Qantas had 11 Kangaroo Route flights a week from Sydney to London, taking 29–32 hours with 5–6 stops each; BOAC's 7-9 weekly flights previously had 7 stops. In 1971 Qantas added Boeing 747s , reducing the travel time and number of stops (in the late 1970s flights typically stopped at Singapore and Bahrain ).
[4]: 145 The name is in honor of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's historic 1928 flight in the aircraft Southern Cross. [5] The equivalent route running through the Eastern Hemisphere is known as the Kangaroo Route. [6] Qantas operated on the route from 1949 — 1974, when it discontinued the London leg of the trip.
AM America was a morning news program produced by ABC in an attempt to compete with the highly rated Today on NBC.Premiering on January 6, 1975, the show never found an audience against Today or the CBS combo of the CBS Morning News and Captain Kangaroo.
The final pair of flights on the rear-engined long-haul jets are charters for enthusiasts. 1983 (25 January): First Boeing 757, named Windsor Castle, is delivered to British Airways.
April 4 – The Good Life on BBC1 in the UK (1975–78) April 5 – Himitsu Sentai Gorenger on TV Asahi (formerly NET) in Japan (1975–77) April 16 – Survivors on BBC1 (1975–77) April 21 – Blankety Blanks on ABC's daytime lineup; May 8 – The Don Lane Show on the Nine Network in Australia (1975–83) May 31 – Jim'll Fix It on BBC1 ...
1975–76 1976–77 The 1974–75 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1974 to August 1975.
When Cathy Poyser heard the announcement that her flight was delayed, her heart sank. It was Christmas Eve, 1975. LAX Airport. Cathy, who’d moved to Los Angeles earlier that year, was desperate ...
The 1975–76 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the primetime hours from September 1975 through August 1976. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 1974–75 season .