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Originally Posted by Meru

Great photos Colin, wow Leon those are amazing up-close pics! To think, straight from your house! I'm lucky enough to work in the control tower complex at Melbourne airport so every day to work I get to see various planes flying. I'll see if I can dig up some pics I've taken and share them too

Meru....sounds good ... see what you can do.

I remember when I was growing up in the 60's ..when we went to the Airport to pick up a family member or friend ...everyone who was there ( including other members of the public ) could go and stand at the ' fence ' just in front of the Terminal and watch the Aircraft come off the runway and taxi to it's holding point right in front of us.....most popular Aircraft in those days was the F27 Fokker or DC9 ( TAA or Ansett )....and you could meet the passengers as they walked through the fence.

In some cases ...if the occasion was special ....returned services soldier or a long awaited visit from someone you hadn't seen in ages ...girlfriends , wives , family members would run out on to the tarmac and greet and hug each other as they made their way back to the terminal.

Can we do that today .....it's only a pipe dream now ..... those days were so innocent ...life was less demanding ... and people were trusted and had a lot more regard for the general folk of the day....no need for layers of Security as they have today.

Anyway Meru ...photos mate ...love to see a few ... I'm sure Leon would like that also.

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