I was quite taken with the pedal-powered radio. Even though we'd probably never use such a thing today, with modern electronics drawing so much less current it'd be much less of a chore!
Sad to read that AKF met with a fatal accident in 1950, possibly not long after filming here. According to
this information components of it morphed into AHB, then ZK-BAR which also met with a double-fatality accident
Update with
source data stating that
"De Havilland Services Limited (DHSL) have reviewed this accident report and have advised that serial number 1123 is not recognised in any record keeping by De Havilland, England or De Havilland, Australia .... the precise history of serial number 1123 can only be traced back to the aircraft registration VH-AHB, and that VH-AHB seems to have been the product of a rebuild made up of parts mostly from VH-AKF which itself had experienced a previous accident."
FP.