Many Moons ago, when I wore shorts,....I used to drop into Latrobe Valley aerodrome whilst on Pipeline survey for Esso. They were in the preliminary stages of development for the GA-8.
Great looking aircraft,extremely capable. The only thing lacking.........AUD to support R&D. They were running on the smell of an oily rag(one of the Engineers didn’t even wear shoes,....but that’s another story).
Great to see grounding is lifted, sorry to hear it may be due pilot error.
Come to think of it I was doing runs between Freddo’s NSCA at East Sale and Latrobe quite often and If I remember correctly the GA-8 was perfectly positioned for S&R.
Now where did Freddo go...................??
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