David Mattingley - Mad keen on flying

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35 sec
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Department of Veterans' Affairs

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I'd always been made keen on flying as a child and used to hop on my bike and go down to the local airfield and walk around there and actually, I was present at the first air pageant, as they were called then, at Launceston Airport, which was the first time Tasmania had ever had a traffic jam. Everybody in Launceston trying to go there, I think.

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