Grave Yard Memorys at Essendon Airport.

As a teen I spent many a day at Essendon Airport, Helping restore Hardvards and we teens were always at the grave yard, At the time we had the Air Express Bristol 170, A Cat flying boat, Around 6 to 8 Canberra Bombers and maybe a few other planes, But it was always great fun to explore, A few of us would goe through holes in the fences of the Airport on weekends, Security was very slack then, And usually we could hide among the Canberras from the D.O.T. patrols in there Toyotas, Nearly all the planes were unlocked, So we often flew them all, The Cat had some sort of mining survey gear in side, And a boom that stuck out from the tail, To us teens it smelt like world war 2 in side, A year later at 16, My mother was working for Stillwell Aviation, And I was lucky enough to do 3 weeks work experence there, And even got a test flight in a twin turbo prop
Merlin aircraft, It was FAST, There hanger was opposite the grave yard so every lunch time I was there, I never vandalised anything, But I tried for some cockpit bits in the bombers, Sat on a bombing run a few times under the frosted canopys, Nearly died from the heat, As it was summer and about 40c, 120c in side the bombers, One lunch time I came aross Ross Nolan from the Hardvards, He had the contract to get rid of the bombers, Bit by Bit, No idea about safety old ross, I helped him a few times, And watched him unbolt an Avon and it crashed to the ground big time, I know what happen to the bombers and the Bristol 170, But not sure what happened to the Cat flying boat, Anyone Know, Cheers for now, Phil Tally Ho.