As a pimply faced teenage baggage handler in coffs harbour I have fond memories of the f27. Didn't think too much of it at the time, but plugging in the battery cart just a metre or so away from a running prop, I'm sure that wouldn't be aloud these days with osh. The public holiday schedule with flights arriving into the early am. Listening to the capt's and fo's of the time, thinking to myself this is want I want to do for a living.
25 odd years later now, have had a cpl for 21 yrs and currently a capt on a b737
Keep the stories coming fellas