David toms wins

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Biography

David Toms was born in 1962 and grew up in central western New South Wales in Australia and now lives in Toronto, Canada.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s air travel was still a privilege which most of the Australian population did not have access to on account of physical location and cost. If they did travel, Australians generally travelled by ocean liner especially to Europe with companies that offered 'line' voyages around the world.

The Australian aviation industry at the time was dominated by the two major domestic airlines, Trans Australian Airways (government owned) and Ansett (privately owned), which operated under the "Two Airlines" policy which stipulated that only two airlines were allowed to operate flights between  state capital cities and major regional centre airports. International services were offered by Qantas (government owned) with strong ties to BOAC (later British Airways) and Air New Zealand. It was only at the beginning of the 1970's and the introduction of the Boeing 747 and Douglas DC-10 that internatio

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