Probably my introduction to the 'aviation community' as a youngster in the late 50s was being allowed to sit quietly in the background in Sid Marshall's hangar at Bankstown
at the end of a busy day.
Some of the stuff I heard being discussed during hangar-chat in that scene left me awestruck.
I'd later found out that most of it was, in fact, true.
Sid himself was considered to be a bit of an eccentric because he liked to collect old aeroplanes - a junk hoarder, as some would have it.
Things like a couple of Mk.VIII Spitfires, Avro Ansons, two DC-2s, a Lockheed 10, Messerschmitt 109G, and a Nakajima 'Oscar' were cluttering up the place, in the opinion of some.
He was always dressed in dirty overalls and had grease under his fingernails.
Terrible.
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Last edited by Stanwell; 26th November 2016 at 15:04.