What a great thread, many memories and names I had forgotten. My first flight at Moorabbin was for my 10th birthday Nov. 1956, Dad took me down for a flight with his good friend Gertie McKenzie, being too busy she sent me off with her friend in a Hornet Moth, all over grass take off to the East, that flight changed my life for ever. The pilot was the famous aviatrix Freda Thompson.
Roy Goon and later Urms Wright did my checks in the mid sixties at RVAC and in the seventies at Berwick, memories of having to wake Bill Campbell-Hicks, sleeping in the caravan with his friend (Johnny Walker?) to fly Tiger Moth TIG.
Another Mustang at MMB was being prepared for an O/S flight by Ron Flockhart, sadly only made to the nearby hills before being destroyed.
All wonderful memories.