Originally Posted by
canard68
I remember attending the school that was .5 mile final to RW 25 in the 1960s . October 1960 a RAAF C130 arrived which was the first we had seen . Following years saw visits from several of those and USAF C124s, which I found out later carried equipment to Woomera.
Woodford was not a busy airfield but the movements were unusual or very loud, Vulcan departures stopped work at school for 30 secs as they thundered overhead.
Brilliant! That must have been Vernon school? I remember Vulcans and Nimrods, if they took off over the school it drowned out everything - fabulous!
A long time ago, a then neighbour told me that once something fell off a Vulcan in Poynton and someone drove out from Woodford to pick it up, it was an undercarriage door or similar so I was led to believe.
A lot of A&AEE stuff used to come in during the halcyon days of the 70s and 80s.
I remember two Hercules coming in together one day in the mid 80s too, that's was awesome!