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Old 14th Apr 2014, 05:11
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As a kid of the 60s and 70s in Sydney I remember the teacher having to stop talking while one of these would scream overhead, shaking the school and leaving a carpet of black smoke behind.
I grew up and went to school in Sydney, but did not live or go to school anywhere near the airport.

When I moved to Melbourne to start work as an Apprentice in 1963 I lived at first in a boarding house in Niddrie, to be near the Engine Shop in Keilor Road, my only memory of that place was the building shaking and not being able to hear the TV or anyone talking whenever a DC6 went over on approach to or after taking off from Essendon Airport.
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