The Big Bang Theory.

[Nostalgair]

Hi All,

 

Here's a new post about a partial engine failure.

 

http://www.owenzupp.com/_blog/Owen_Zupp/post/The_Big_Bang_Theory_An_Aviation_Blog_by_Owen_Zupp/

 

Cheers,

 

Owen

 

 

[shags_j]

As always Owen, a pleasure to read.

 

 

[dazza 38]

Great Read Owen.It was good to read about the engine holding together for a while with that much damage.

 

 

[Wayne T Mathews]

A great read Owen. Thank you. Having been in Kununurra, I'm wondering if you ever ran into Bill Withers. And if you did, did anyone tell you he was an airframe fitter on the RAAF's #1 intake of apprentices (the Anzacs). While doing his apprenticeship in Wagga, he painted a picture of a PBY Catalina. That painting is hanging on the wall in front of me as I write this post.

 

 

 

[Nostalgair]

Hi Wayne,

 

I'm sorry, but I don't recall the name, although that's a great picture of the 'Cat'. On the issue of Catalinas, there is a Catalina in a museum at Lake Boga in Victoria, while HARS at Wollongong have a flying Catalina painted to represent the 'Black Cats'.

 

Cheers,

 

Owen

 

 

[Wayne T Mathews]

Fair enough, Owen.

 

Bill was one of the "founders" of Kununurra. He and one of his mates drove a doubledecker bus up there full of stock and opened the first "store". He was also the Liberal state MP for a fair while. Bill sent me a book he'd written a few years back about the early days of Kununurra, but my son lost it, damn it. Some of the things that happened up there were hillarious. In one of his stories, he talks about the original publican got sick of all the glasses getting broken, so he made the drinkers bring their own containers to put their beer in. Bill talked about blokes comming into his store and buying a can of stew so they could open it, pour the contents on the ground, and stomp off into the pub to get the can filled with beer. Apparently one bloke didn't want to spend that much, so he took the hub cap off his car and took that into the pub. It sure sounds like a place I wish I'd seen.

 

 

[Nostalgair]

Hi All,

 

I meant to attach the photo associated with this story too.

 

 

http://www.owenzupp.com/_blog/Owen_Zupp/post/The_Big_Bang_Theory_An_Aviation_Blog_by_Owen_Zupp/

 

Cheers

 

Owen