On descent into Hobart in the Heron, (last balloon wind at 10,000 240/60) smooth as silk, till about 5000, then whammo into the lee of Wellington.
5 kg extinguisher in it's bracket on the rear bulkhead instantly becomes loose object. If someone had been in the rear seat closest, they would have received a bump upon the scone. . or worse.
used to watch the wings flex on the C402s. and used to watch them not flex on the Queenairs. One O'Dea, navy pilot from Nowra, ETPS graduate and all that . . .. he looked out from the front right seat one morning while we were being bounced about in the B80 Goulburn to Sinney,,, and says in a pleasant terse sort of a way . .. ' Rather have a wing with a bit of give'.