Being an ex-Ansett rat, I knew only a few of the TAA folk, but in my pre-aviation days I went to Teacher's College with a guy whose Dad was El Partridge. Later on - after mixing with some of the TAA crew, they told me how El had passed his (eyesight) medicals with only one good eye.
Does anyone know if that was factual? I tend to believe it probably was, as I understand that it was as a result of Perspex (from the WW2 aircraft's windshields) being found in the eyes of old fighter pilots decades on, that led to the use of it (or something similar) for replacing lens affected by cataracts.