9 HOURS Crossing Australia on a Tiny Plane

'i have pulled out of katherine' Noel Philips 2024

"Katherine was pretty moist but soon dried up as I approached" - Ok

Glad Katherine had a good landing strip.

How many innuendos can you get in one video ,a lot 🤣🤣🤣

"Unlike Darwin, Katherine was pretty moist today" - Noel Philips 2024 😂

"Katherine, where most people seem to get off" 🤣

That man looked at your bag on that luggage scale and was like “nooooooo no no nooooooo. 😂😂😂

The reason the airfield at Katherine is so large for such a small settlement is that it is also a Royal Australian Air Force base, hosting 75 Sqn with F35 Lightning aircraft.

The helicopter at 12:30 has a New Zealand registration, ZK-HNR. Just checked on flightradar and it flew to Australia in Jan 2024 via Kerikeri, Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island to the Gold Coast. Can't help wondering what it is doing in Australia. Really enjoy following along with Noel on these flights.

School boy Noel enjoying the innuendos 😂

I drove this route over 2 weeks. It was super dry back then. So cool to see it from the air. Enjoy Australia!

The train , called The Ghan is another great option to get from the Northern Territory through all the little towns in the centre of Australia, down to Adelaide

I just love how you threw "Katherine's landing strip" in the narration just to get one last innuendo before heading down south.

Katherine Airport is also known as RAAF Base Tindal. It is home to No 75 Squadron which is currently equipped with F-35A strike fighters, which have recently replaced the fleet of F/A-18 Hornets. The aircraft parked at Alice Springs started to become a thing during Covid, it is more of a storage facility than a boneyard /scrapyard, a lot of aircraft originally stored have returned back to commercial service. Yes Australia is more ‘greener’ that a lot of overseas people think, it’s not just one big desert with a bit of green around the edges. Only about 18% of Australia is actual desert, adding areas of dry and arid regions brings the total of ‘desert/dry arid’ to a bit more than 30%, The rest of the landscape can vary from tropical rain forests to snow covered mountains in winter, and everything in between. Cheers,

As an aviation fanatic, I have to say that the aircraft with the turbo prop looked a lot like a P 51 Mustang as you were sitting there looking at that polished engine cowling and propeller! Pretty cool!

We all enjoyed watching Noel get into Alice after pulling out of Katherine and then catching a virgin to Adelaide 😂. Only in Australia 🇦🇺 😂

Rain in the red centre is pretty rare mate, you were very lucky - only sees water a few times a year. We had the same luck a few years ago - managed to see the Todd River flowing in Alice - it's dry 360 days a year - quite the sight.

I adore these sorts of videos Noel, small airlines you'd never even know about unless you'd been there and done it. Also, the chrome on the cowling off that Embraer 120 😍😍😍

You’re at the back end of the wet season up there Noel, that’s why it’s so green.

I love Air North. One of my favourite airlines to fly, great grew and the catering in their E-Jets is great too