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O.K., that's good info - but if you don't have a flight number, tail number, airline, or any of those details, how do you just find a mystery aircraft that flew overhead last night?

The Welsh wording actually says, "I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work for translation".

I can't see where to acquire that free search for past flights on FlightAware. I can only find a button that says "buy data" (for big $$$).

Your not correct on Toyota's position, they are still going gangbusters, and it's largely due to hybrids. They picked that EV's uptake would be slow, and that hybrids could fill in in the meantime, and that's where they're winning. https://www.drive.com.au/news/toyota-breaks-global-sales-record-tops-2025-charts-for-sixth-year-running/

But no flight tracking website give you historical data without you paying for it, anyway? So it's a waste of time trying to find out what flew overhead last night, as I'd still have to pay, to acquire the info. I can see flights moving on the site, but it's only current information. If I click off the ad-blocker warning overlay, the site defaults to the paid subscription page that rgmwa just gave a screenshot of.

But the site hates me! I can't even register! And it continues to warn me in big overlays, that I'm using an ad-blocker - when I've already turned it off!! Even when I try to go to just www.flightradar.com as the URL, it redirects me to FR24 lodged on Perth airport in the URL.

Oh, they've got a plan, alright - and it all centres around our ol' mate Donny, and the ever-increasing level of his personal financial gains - from any worldly conquests, Presidential decisions, and trade deals jockeying. I must say, I'm surprised he hasn't managed to score a deal with the U.S. military, to use Trump-branded armaments. I bet he's seen the profits of the U.S. military-industrial complex, and is itching to get his major share of them.

I can't even register for a free account on the site. I click the "register an account" button and nothing happens - even though I turned my ad blocker off and refreshed the page. I can only register for a "free 7 day trial" involving a subscription. It looks like you guys got in on the ground floor - I get the FR24 concierge who tells me I can't get in, unless I pay! Is it something to do with my looks, or something I said about them somewhere on social media?? Is the TCA running FR24, and checking my Social Australia postings as I type??? 🥹

Yeah, I was surprised to find out recently that diesel use has gone up substantially in recent years, primarily due to diesel delivery van sales booming - primarily due to the boom in online shopping. I'd have to opine that petrol sales have dropped, largely because many petrol cars are being traded on EV's. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-02/diesel-sales-surge-but-lpg-and-e10-plunge-fuel-prices/106367856

Yeah Willie, I've always been puzzled why QLD has high fuel prices, bit of an oil company rort, I would think. I can recall when QLD had the cheapest fuel in Australia, about 5c or 6c L cheaper than anywhere else, when fuel was less than a $1 L. I think it was because QLD had no state tax on fuel, unlike the other States?

FR24 tells me I have to register to get free use, for just 7 days, then I have to pay a regular monthly fee??

Yeah Willie, I've always been puzzled why QLD has high fuel prices, bit of an oil company rort, I would think. I can recall when QLD had the cheapest fuel in Australia, about 5c or 6c a L cheaper than anywhere else, when fuel was less than a $1 a L. I think it was because QLD had no state tax on fuel, unlike the other States?

I filled the Camry and a couple of jerrycans up on Monday - Costco at Perth Airport was a veritable madhouse with queues for a couple of hundred metres and more - and a heap of empty bowsers. They were charging $1.48 for ULP and people were filling six or eight jerrycans, and every container they could lay their hands on, by the look of it. I left without filling up, and went to Atlas Fuels nearby, and paid $1.52 to fill up. Even at that, numerous Atlas pumps were dry. It was a long weekend here last weekend, so possibly made worse by that. I fueled the Hilux on Tuesday morning at SOLO and paid $1.60 for diesel - but since then, I've seen both ULP and diesel selling at close on $2 a litre. Costco is up about 5c L today for ULP, and still the cheapest by far - but I'd expect next week, the price will be up another 10c. https://www.fuelwatch.wa.gov.au/ I'm fortunate, in that I've got about 300-400 litres of diesel stored in my yard in the wheatbelt, I might be digging into that reserve for the next few weeks, I think.

Yeah, Marty - but FR24 wants money out of me on a regular basis, just to see what flew overhead. Plus, they hate my adblocker and won't let me see very much at all.

My father lived and worked on Doolgunna Station, about 120kms N of Meekatharra, during the Great Depression, from early 1930 to sometime in 1934. Doolgunna is in the upper catchment area of the Gascoyne River. He would also spend time working as a fencer on numerous other stations in the Gascoyne region. He then spent a further 3 years doing water-boring in the same region and further afield, right down to the Northern Wheatbelt of W.A. In March 1934, a big cyclone cut across the Gascoyne region, bringing huge falls of rain with it. Dad and two other blokes were fencing on station further West from Doolgunna, I think it may have been Three Rivers Station, but I'm not sure now. Three Rivers has frontage to the massive Gascoyne River. Anyway, where they were working was in the Gascoyne flood plain. They each had horses and a camel-drawn dray with supplies on it, designed to last about three weeks at a minimum. Dad said it started raining, and rained heavily, non-stop for 3 days. They got around 15 inches (380mm) of rain in that three days. He said the curious thing about the whole episode was, just before the rain started, the three camels they had on the dray, laid down, turned their heads against their flanks - and died! He reckoned they somehow knew a big flood was coming, and camels can't handle wet muddy conditions, their legs splay out in greasy mud, and they bellow out in pain. So, they stopped working for three days - and next thing, the floodwaters from the rising Gascoyne started surrounding them! Their swags and tents were getting wet, so they built a platform in a nearby windmill tower, about 3M off the ground, and set up camp up there to wait out the flood. It was too risky to return to the station, because they had to cross the Gascoyne to get there. They sat it out on that windmill tower platform for THREE weeks! The water around them rose to top-of-fencepost height, and just stayed there for all that time. Dad said nearly every fencepost top they could see, was covered in scorpions, snakes or other creepy crawlies, all trying to survive the flood! He said there was water as far as the eye could see, from the top of the windmill tower. Finally, the floodwaters started to recede, and one of the blokes decided he'd try to return to the station to let the owners know they were still alive, and not washed away, and to get some fresh tucker. But he tried to swim the Gascoyne, which was still flowing well, and he ended up losing his horse (and a good saddle, too! - according to Dad) - and he nearly lost his own life, getting swept well downstream, before he could grab a tree and climb out. The other blokes were surprised, when he walked back into camp, with no horse! So they had to wait several more days before they could get out and cross the Gascoyne safelys and return to the homestead. Here's some of the storm reports from the end of March 1934, that show the vast area flooded by that cyclone. Only a fortnight before, the SW of W.A. received huge amounts of rain as well, from a different cyclonic event. Some places in W.A.'s wheatbelt received 5 inches (125mm) of rain in one day, around 9th-10th March 1934. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/67262087 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/67264963