Longreach, Queensland
Longreach and nearby Winton both claim to be the birthplace of QANTAS but Longreach has the 747 parked in its proverbial driveway and also the hangar used by QANTAS in the 1930s. As this photo shows, our kids were so taken with the signficance of it all that they developed a great game around rolling tenno balls down the old drainpipe hanging off the side of the heritage listed aeroplane hangar......