Those Raafy types are a bunch of throttle bashers, looks like he's blown the oil rings on all eight cylinders. Those PC9's would have to have a V8 in them the way they go.
WV735 Percival Sea Prince C.1 (P57/49) Royal Navy - Fleet Air Arm. CU/578. Delivered Nov-1954, s.o.c. 29-Mar-1977, scr. Binbrook 1980
- 14th photo down the page. Now a gate guardian at Long Marston Airfield Warwickshire.
I remember the days, but alas, not the actual date, - mid sixties - it came in from Nowra(?)....Schofields(?)... To Rex Av at BK, where it sat for a while, then took off, flew to Griffith, where they drained out the oils and fuel, and put it up on that pole...where it has sat ever since I guess.
A similar fate to the Spitfire that sat in 'The Terrace' Perth, until it WAS removed, sent to NZ, had moulds made, and now the 'real thing' resides inside the Bull Creek Museum, whilst the fiberglass replica sits on the pole outside...
Decorated in the colors of 451 'Bankstown to Berlin' squadron, which oddly enough had no affiliation with WA.... Except that the Boxing Kangaroo emblem was later used by Alan Bond's yacht race team...... However, it's all good....
I recall something fro the UK where various 'gate-guard' Spitfires etc were systematically removed, replaced with fibreglass replicas and restored for display or flight.
Re Gannetts, I think I have some pix of one from Caloundra, buried in the photo box somewhere.
