adelaide air show 1966
The flying is same as it used to be at airshows in UK. All changed a few years back when an idiot in Hawker Hunter killed multiple members of the public when ploughing into them short of the runway when trying to pull up from a loop.
A681001, you take me back, had I not joined the Navy four months prior I would have been there. Learnt to fly early sixties in Whyalla courtesy of Parafields company "Aviation Services", knew Ross Tilley prior to him starting Rossair as he was a charter pilot on Austers and Cessna 180 at Whyalla (Silver City Air Taxis), used to loan me the Rossair company car on overnights. Features some aircraft I flew. Extremely fond memories, thank you. 
About then, I was a youngster mad keen on aviation and started a scrapbook to put images of aircraft I had scrounged from magazines or the artwork from my Airfix bags and boxes after "assembling" the models.
While not as great a quality as the YouTube 8mm film, this motley montage came from a magazine by the name of "Everybody's" that I cut up and pasted that had an article on the Adelaide National Air Show of 10th September 1966.
While not as great a quality as the YouTube 8mm film, this motley montage came from a magazine by the name of "Everybody's" that I cut up and pasted that had an article on the Adelaide National Air Show of 10th September 1966.
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Missed this when it was first posted, bloody marvellous! That Demoiselle replica, is that the Mag Men example?
"An RAAF Dakota lines up next to a modern transport""
FHS - that's a Bristol Frightener, first flight 1945
Luckily Adelaide has speeded up a bit since then.....................
FHS - that's a Bristol Frightener, first flight 1945
Luckily Adelaide has speeded up a bit since then.....................
