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Originally Posted by FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0
I'm feeling a bit nostalgic today, but not in a good way.
I know all man-made machines will eventually become of such little value that they will be seen simply as scrap, but to see a once glorious aircraft that I worked on simply sit in a yard like this and be allowed to rot away is heartbreaking.
And even more heartbreaking is knowing that it was destroyed by fire earlier this year.
Such a sad end....
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And this is the aircraft sitting in the yard prior to the fire..
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What she looked like back in her early days:
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HS-748's were good aeroplanes in the day, flown in many from RAAF Sale base.