Diana's mention of Bristol Freighters had my mind going back to the mid 1960's . As a kid I took a keen interest in anything flying around . I lived underneath the main air route south from Melbourne to tassie and all sorts of stuff went over ( mostly F27 Fokker Friendships ) . The Bristol freighters had a very unique engine signature , you knew what was coming long before they came into sight , a harsh, very loud throbbing sound unlike any other aeroplane around then. The things seemed to be barely hanging in the air as they slowly mooched along with engines labouring and screeaming . Their ability to fly on one engine was less than ideal .. it would more or less go into a slow long downhill glide .. One tassie veteran crashed I recall, because of an engine loss .
One sight remains clearly , a tiger moth towing a glider , at extremely low altitude, went straight over our house , heading for Moorabbin airport.
Mike
