CC. Gerry Geary was my nav at 10 Sqn. Wonderfully dry wit. We flew many hours together. He got into Qantas as nav. The Darwin crash was spectacular. Pilot was Flying officer Wally Wearne and second pilot was Sgt Bill Fisher. I was there a couple of days later.
Story we got was that an outboard throttle linkage broke and the engine went to full power on touch down. Due to carb design you could not select ICO with full power selected so they could not cut the runaway engine. Big ground loop and aircraft broke its back in a cloud of red dust -very spectacular. I have classic photo of it all forlorn and ******ed on its guts.
If your Dad is still around tell him that I had coffee yesterday with Keith O'Connell who was a gunner at No 1 Sqn.
If you have an email number I can send you some fine Lincoln shots.:)

Yeah he is still around.......turns 70 in a few months and is as fit as a slightly worn fiddle:D

Useless old bastard point blank refuses to get email/internet for his hugely powerful 'puter......which he just plays aircombat, Sink the Bismark games on :D

I'll ring him and stir him up a bit.

I still have several VERY vivid images from the Mauritius trip as a 15 year old, of Dad and Gerry. One memory of them both pi$$ed as......sitting on the hotel room floor singing "The RAAF were flying Lancasters at zero thousand feet":D

The other is Gerry at dinner still pi$$ed and falling face down in his soup:D He'd been saying some quite pointed things to a very gay steward at the table and we were not sure whether to rescue him from imminent drowning or not :D

Quite an eye openng trip for a lad my age in the mid 70s well used to a father that was a stern disciplinarian at home:D Got drunk and layed for the first times too:cool:

Unfortunately the box with all Dad's piccies of 1 Sqdn went missing in a house move. I tried replacing them from AWM archives but no luck:(

Isn't it a tiny world?

Email me.

Brgds,
Chuck.

PS.....I've just spoken to him and he asked if you knew the chap that rocked up at NAS Nowra in a Long Nose Lincoln and dropped anchor from the bomb bay:D He also feels the need to kick 'Wings' Lamming in the arse for keeping him awake all night when he was doing East Coasters in C47s post Malaya:D

Sorry to have highjacked the thread by the way but it seems to have been dying anyway.

CC,

The Laming chap to whom you refer tells some wonderful tales of yesteryear as those who have read them in various magazines will testify ... I just hope that he eventually collates them all into a book version ...