Have you listened to the D P Davis podcasts I posted here
Thanks for the links, Bergerie 1. Like his book Handling the Big Jets,.the D.B Davies series of podcasts are like rolled gold.
In 1948 my first flight was in a Lockheed Hudson of the Sydney Morning Herald Flying Services at Camden NSW. The pilot was Captain Harry Purvis AFC the former RAAF chief instructor on the Hudson. It was a test flight after an engine change and I was one of several employees invited to go along for the 30 minute ride. As it was a cargo Hudson, there were no passenger seats or safety belts so we all sat on the metal floor. Thank goodness it was a calm day.
A few months later I sat in the copilot's seat (I was 16 at the time) when the pilot Dick Cruikshanks ferried a Hudson single pilot from Camden to Sydney airport on a positioning flight. During the taxy in at Sydney I remember opening the copilot's window and proudly waving to a DC3 taxiing near us. That pilot waved back and it made my day.