[Exfso (Peter)]

Brilliant. Love those Merlins etc. When I was in Darwin, there was a guy up there owned a Sea Fury, he regularly did demos over the airfield, that was a lovely sound as well.
His name was Giudo Zuccoli, he was killed in 1997 when his restored T-6 crashed on take-off from Tindal when a supercharger had a seizure and the resulting engine failure was the cause of his demise.
I remember him because he landed at Katherine just after Cyclone Tracy when the aerodrome had been de-commissioned. I told him when he was taxying in to hide the aircraft out of site behind one of the on site buildings, and to report to the briefing office. He did so and I told him what he had done, said he did not see the white crosses. Anyway I said I would keep it quiet if he would do so as well.
unfortunately he was heard bragging in the aeroclub a few weeks later about what he did and it got back to my OIC and I was keelhauled as a result..but that is what one did on outstations.
From memory he did not do the mandatory circuit area report which would have been a give away but just did a straight in approach without telling anybody, the first we knew about it was when he taxied past the briefing office.