Museum
I rode my push bike there more than once in the 1960's as a kid . The main attraction was a complete static display Mustang , they had a walkway rigged up over a wing so visitors could peek inside the cockpit . At the time there were a few relics of aircraft at the museum, nothing to rave about , but it was a beginning .
Around 1970 they had a airshow there , during the parachute jump display, a chute became tangled and the whole crowd watched in horror as he plummeted to earth . He managed to unbuckle the chute and he deployed his backup chute about 500 feet above the ground ..it was a close thing . The commentator on the loudspeakers at the show was Brian Naylor the channel 7 TV newsreader who later perished in the black Saturday bushfires .
Mike
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1940 cab 11 C8
1940 Morris-Commercial PU
1941 Morris-Commercial CS8
1940 Chev. 15cwt GS Van ( Aust.)
1942-45 Jeep salad
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