Just been talking to some of the Family about this ''the way we were'' business, our Daughters fondly remembering the cockpit visits every time they flew, which YES was mentioned before.
Another thing though I was reminded of from way back then that would NEVER EVER happen today sadly, when I was an Apprentice back in the 1960s at Essendon, working Monday to Friday, there would often be test flights scheduled for over the Weekend, usually but not always a DC3 that had been in for a check and needed a test flight.
Any of us that wanted to could put our name down to go on these test flights as pax, and not only that, but we could (and did) nominate and then bring someone else too, a Mate or a Girlfriend with absolutely NO connection at all to Ansett.
Cannot imagine that happening now............
Those really were the good olde days.
