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I like it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers
Hey Cliff, did I mention I am working back where we trained? Same building 30 years on!
Struth.... which block?:eek:
Pete, who works for me just accepted a job with Boeing doing what he did at supcom last century.
He did 20 years & has been out for about 17 or 18. :rolleyes:
I've lost touch, SupCom still exist in the same place?
Mainly now in the old Rads building at Laverton as far as I know.
(This post is in no way intended to cause offence and if it in anyway does please advise me and I will delete it ASAP.)
My first home in Melbourne, the old red brick ones then the three level ones opposite, they were new then and fights errupted as to who was going.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennylaird
I started in the old two story weatherboard ones near the water towers. No heating and I would go to bed early just to stay warm. Best thing was no inspection hence an easy panic night. Moved to 421 after that, the 3 story ones.
(This post is in no way intended to cause offence and if it in anyway does please advise me and I will delete it ASAP.)
That at the Laverton RAAF base? If it is, I stayed there as well when posted to the ANZAC ship project. 421 sounds familiar - when there wasn't enough room in the wardroom.
Panic NIght, I had forgotten about them, got done for not having flippers under the bed with other footwear by 'The Rabbit' (WOD White).
Stuart, was that before your Commission?
Yes, 421 was the one closest to the Railway line. So you would have then gone to TUASSC each day? I taught Combat Systems and FCS there till it moved to the west.
(again no offence intended.)
Flipper under the bed, no wonder. You could have bought down the whole fabric of the defence of our nation, Shame.
(Opps ok offensive, just working out how to delete this.)
Mustn't have been 421 that I stayed in then - from memory it was close the the gym.
I did a lot of courses down at Williamstown - all the marine engineering ones for the ANZAC.
Ended up being the reason I now live in Melbourne and not in NZ - came over after leaving the NZ Navy to see if I could get a job building the things (I love heavy engineering). Worked there for a while working for SKM, but after a year realised that I never wanted to work for Tenix - cowboys. Turned down a $70k job with them when offered and everything.
It was a fun time training for the ANZACs- on base movies, gym etc, working on ANZACs during the day, diving most weekends on the wrecks in the bay.
And one weekend a Winjeel overshot the runway and went for a swim, the CO went home and got his tinny and pulled out the pilot and student, where was the crashboat, down Geelong way diving for crays.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuart.
Got a fairly severe bum kicking for that, and had to donate all our crays to the officers mess, nothing more was ever said.
And did we get a good feed that night! Wardroom (navy) = Officers Mess (Airforce)
Sounds like the old Apprentice block or one of the newer? blocks. I'm a Tenix cowboy now, still Anzac training and Protector training. You would know some of the engineering instructors, one works here with me and is also a member of the forum, pm me if you want to know who.
(Offensive? I'll delete it if it is.)
A Draggie went to King Island from Sale to load up on crays for the Mess Dining In night.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuart.
Was summer and they forgot to unload the floor storage. When they opened the aircraft on monday morning the stench blew them out the door, was just a liquified, putrified mess. Took days to clean it out fully.
(Just let me know, I'll delete this if offensive.)
Cliff, L474, the main RADS building as you knew it.
Iain, SUPCOM died last century (literally!). Do try and keep up :)
Bennylaird, I fell through the floor of those wooden buildings, nearly broke my back. Thankfully they pulled them down.
Done by civ contractors now, that is what Pete is off to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Groggy
Will be for the pigs, they have at least another 4 years of life left in them & that may be extended too.
They just seem to go on and on, epecially interesting when you remember all the opposition they had to start with. Might even last longer than the Dak's? nah not a chance..................
Did you ever see that poem about Daks? Used to be around when I first stated work at Qantas over 40 years ago. All I can remember is the last 2 lines -Quote:
Originally Posted by bennylaird
"They'll still be making bloody dough,
When other planes no longer fly."
Witnessed the passing of the Daks in RAAF service down at East Sale, They did a mock funeral with a nose section mounted on a trailor and everyone dressed in black. The fly past was great watching Machhis, Ct4, Draggies and Daks all trying to fly in formation at the same speed......
I've seen a Machhis, a Sabre & a Mustang do a fly past in formation.
Thats nothing, should have seen the Mirage in formation with the Tiger moth!!!!!!!
Ok so they were both on the Tarmac, does it still count?:p
Had three AT6's doing formation work over the house last Saturday, love the sound. Used to love the Vampire whinning over as well, of and the Mustang etc etc Just great living so close to Point Cook.....
In formation but not flying in formation.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennylaird
So you can nip over to Altona for a pizza?Quote:
Originally Posted by bennylaird
What's for lunch?:D
:D Power up the Mirage and taxi past the Tiggie and she will be flying?:D
You would not recognise the place, all built up on Point Cook (Aviation Road), now they are complaining as apparently aircraft are flying overhead? Go figure. I think Nicks Pizza is still going just near Millers Rd, was always a popular stop on the way back to base.
Hmmm.. pizza & real coffee, I'm hungry now.
I gave up on that years ago LOL:D:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers
Hang on, you just un-hijacked this thread.... :eek: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by meerkat