Danny42C
Beating-up girl friend's house strictly forbidden - but often done But remember the "up" part. You should reach your low point before you reach the house, then climb up over the roof. Lovelorn swain goes over still going down, object of affections waving madly in garden, takes "eye off the ball"......CRRUMP ! Happened many a time.
It happened to a friend of dad's permanent RAAF in Canberra in the late fifties.
AIRCDE Lloyd Davies, who was having a Christmas drink at our place.
He recounted how at the end of his basic training at Point Cook in 1938 he took a Wapiti on a solo nav-ex to a property on the outskirts of Deniliquin . ( locally known as "Deni", a town in the Riverina region of New South Wales close to the border with Victoria.) . It was the home of Lloyd's mate on the same course at Point Cook. There on that sunny Sunday afternoon , driven by lustful or romantic thoughts of the daughter of the family, Lloyd shoved the nose down into a steep dive at the object of his affections whom he thought he could see waving frantically next to the tank stand (always good to stand near a tree , a tank stand or other obstacle to a clear path of display.) At what Lloyd in his ignorance thought was the right height to pull out, he hauled back on the stick, only to have the poor old lumbering Wapiti carry her momentum flat into the garden. (****-oh-dear. . . . . it is not recorded what he said to Felicity (mate's sister) upon emerging from the wreckage .. . but what a shot that would make to supply the apt caption.) What story Lloyd told his superiors is also left to the imagination. . . . but whatever it was he lived to fly and fight another day. (He gave me back then in Canberra days a snapshot of a CAC Boomerang he had once flown. On the back of the photo he had written "Boomerang - Ground-looping little bastard."