Radschool Association Magazine

Radschool Association Magazine - Vol 11

Next reunion 25-27 April 2003

31 July 2002

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After the story on the Canberras in our previous edition, we received this photo, but we’ve lost the details on who sent it. It shows a Canberra at full chat, and the sender thinks it was taken in Biak about '78. The sender reckons it’s not a touch up job but is ridge and he says if you blow the photo up you can see two Indons on a motor bike that managed to stay upright as the thing roared on overhead. Which-ever, it’s a good shot. If you can put some details to the photo we’d like to hear from you, and if you sent it in the first place, please get in touch again.

Enlargement of part of 1st picture

The inside bit of the Canberra - from where the driver sat

Dave Muir-McCarey used to work on the Can-berries when he was at Amberley in the early 70’s, and he reckons they were a mongrel to work on. Dave says the worst job was getting the old Green Satin doppler radar out for service. It was situated down the back end of the aeroplane, up under the tail section, and you needed three elbows and the strength of Hercules to do it. There was a pully system that ran along a little track, installed in the aeroplane that was meant to be used but Dave reckons it was heaps easier to do it the old fashioned way-by hand. And putting the damn thing back was just as hard, he reckons, it needed two blokes to do it, and with the two blokes and the weight of the set right down the back, the nose wheel nearly always lifted. Dave remembers one occasion when he was tuning the HF which was in a rack next to the navigator’s seat, with his head down and his bum in the air. The electricians hooked the frame and his bum up to a mega and spun the handle and that’s how one HF set obtained a large dent - to the shape of his head…..

Appy Land

14Appy on their pass out parade at Laverton in August, 1962. Those present were:

R Chambers, C Charlton, M Deeke, R Dennett, H Dower, L Franklin, P Gustafson, I Guthrie, T Harrington, P Holdon, D Kidd, L Lindsay, Ted McEvoy, E Perry, M Pope, D Ripper, AV Smith and L Triplett.

The value of undies

Be careful what you wear (or don't wear), when working under your car...especially in public. A couple drove their car to K-Mart only to have it break down in the car park. The man told his wife to go and do the shopping while he fixed the car. The wife returned later to see a small group of people hanging around the car. On closer inspection she saw a pair of male legs protruding from under the front of the car.

Although the man was in shorts, his lack of underpants turned private parts into glaringly public ones. Unable to stand the embarrassment she dutifully stepped forward, quickly put her hand up his shorts and tucked everything back into place. On regaining her feet she looked across the bonnet and found herself staring at her husband who was standing idly by. The mechanic, however, had to have three stitches in his head.

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