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deja vu
Ah memories, can't trust them anymore. Could have sworn that was Clem Atkins. Sorry to hear about Stan, last I saw of him we went target towing at West head in a shrike and completed my IR renewal on the way back to EN. Wes Guy ran the training dept. when I was with Execs.
You mentioned Dick Jackson, I am wondering if that would be the same Dick Jackson who was CFI at Civil Flying School at Jandakot when I joined them in 1971.
Barry Tate was with Civils at MB when I first knew him, then Air Nauru and others, last heard of still instructing at Tyabb.
Must have been there about the same time - did many circles at West Head and also a trip to work with a ship off Bundy as well as Air Amb. Did a few checks with Wes and he endorsed me on the Cat. I think you are correct re Dick going to the west when Civil's set up there. They had a big maintenance base at JT and did much of the RFDS work on the Queenair's they had then.
Maybe my memory is a bit gone, but I think there were two "Tate's", one at CFS and the other at Pipeair (then DCA). Need help on that one....