Capt Claret
Actually watched an Electra reverse out of a parking spot at Essendon one day. I just adore my visits to the then Mecca.
Gaunty - thanks mate but I call it like I see it, and the ghosts do abound there. East West looked at Essendon very seriously in the early eighties and the echoes and the feeling inside the terminal were a tangible weight as we walked through.
I so wanted the old girl to come alive again.
Later in life I saw the film based on the Steven King book The Langoliers - and it rang so true it shook me.
VH-THB was one of 2 Bell Helicabs TAA ran for a period of time. The aeroplane was chartered to the Antarctic dudes, and was landed untidily on an ice plateau.It was deemed the angle of the plateau and its relative instability made it unsafe to retrieve the girl and she was abandoned. Probably still there somewhere.
Details were dredged from the "dead zone" so correction is welcomed.
Best all
EWL