Just FYI lads, Vic "Dizzy" Divola (former CO NSWSQN) departed for The Great Flight in the Sky just a few months ago. Not many of the 'old hands' to go...
Keg,
Are there still any .303s (some perhaps the .22 version?) at ex-18Flt?
Ah, Camden... did my powered flying course there, soloed after Greg Ferster just told me to pull off the TWY and jumped out, saying 'off you go, just do a couple of circuits and come back'. Nothing will ever beat that feeling of my first solo climb-out at about 8am on a sunny summer morning.
Also did my CDTSGT promotion course there (met Ken Paris for the first time - lovingly woken each morning with him banging a rubbish bin yelling "hands off ****s, on socks").
Also did a gliding week at Bathurst (and managed to pick up chicken pox, still got the scars), an annual GST and CDTCPL promo at Riccy, plus my CUO course with TAS Sqn in Hobart. Fun days.
As for the brass, I think Angus Houston was an Ant; not sure about the current crop.