Originally Posted by
Turnleft080
...when dad and I stopped at the end of the highway to watch a Qantas B707 do about 10 touch & goes. Just brilliant.
Haha. So did I, but not at the end of the runway. In the mid to late 70's I used to love going down to play cricket or footy against Geelong Grammar, hoping that Qantas, Ansett or TAA would have aircraft doing circuits. Low level ops were great as they'd often pass almost overhead low & loud in a 727, DC9 or 747! Ten years later I got to do circuits in the 767 at Avalon; one of those nervous, exhausting events that you look back thinking "How good was that!"