Hybrid At HARS

Tonight AB Computer Training were visitors at the Illawarra Business Chamber's meeting at the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society Museum at the Illawarra Regional Airport in Albion Park Rail. The meeting was hosted by Toyota, who unveiled their new Hybrid Camry, which is soon to be built here in Australia.

The meeting was well attended, and we took the opportunity to network with other local businesses, whilst admiring both the cars, and teh historic aircraft which provided a backdrop to the event. Needless to say we took a few photos (click on them to see bigger versions):

What's under here?



It's the new Toyota Hybrid Camry:



See under the bonnet:



And a view from behind the wheel:



Catherine got to meet Illawarra St George Dragons player Matt Cooper:



There are other pictures on our Flickr stream.

Oh, and I promised to say hello to Libby Geen of Formula Training Solutions.

Wings Over Illawarra

Last month we attended the Wings Over Illawarra open-day at the Illawara regional Airport in Albion Park Rail. Like many others we were stuck in a long queue of traffic to get there; worse in our case as we wanted to go somewhere else first, so had to sit in a queue to get past the airport, then queue up coming the other way to get into the show. There was also a fair wait to get out of the event once you left the car park.

Anyway, the RTA and the police have raised concerns about the volume of traffic. Not sure what they can really do about it, though; the Princes Highway through Albion Park Rail has always been a bottle-neck, and will be until the deviation round the back of Albion Park itself is built. Our work with AB Computer Training means that we spend a lot of time on the road; if we make a trip through Albion Park Rail we have to allow for extra journey time because you can never tell how badly clogged up it's going to be.

The part about the distinction between an 'open day' and an 'air show' is interesting as well. Pedantic, but of importance to the organisers, I guess.