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Post by Dave.K on Aug 31, 2011 20:37:04 GMT 12
A friend borrowed the following pictures of the wall of the quarters, with permisson of course, at Forrest Range station, (Emmersons) in the Lindis Pass. They show Doug Crossan in Thrush DQC with a young Emmerson family. Date on back is 1977 sowing 400 tonnes of super. Doug went to Austrailia flying, probably retired now, does anyone know of him?    |
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Post by gk on Apr 3, 2016 20:54:57 GMT 12
Doug Crossan was my Uncle. Unfortunately he passed away in Australia in 2003.
He gave me my first plane ride from our farm strip at Tarras. I had the honor of giving him his last flight by spreading his ashes over the family farm at Roxburgh.
So cool to see these photos... Bald head and cheeky grin, just the way I remember him.
My Aunt gave me his old flight computer, it's cool - has all these cheat notes written on it in pencil, hate to think how many hours it's logged
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Post by Dave.K on Apr 10, 2016 10:20:31 GMT 12
Hi GK, thanks for that, he was known as a grumpy bugger, but when you got to know him he had a sense of humour.I have some more of the same set if you want to send me your e-mail I will send them to you. Do you have any photos of him, particularly of his helicopter the bell 47 he flew for Central.
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Post by damian on Jul 30, 2016 14:14:03 GMT 12
Doug Crossan was my Uncle. Unfortunately he passed away in Australia in 2003. He gave me my first plane ride from our farm strip at Tarras. I had the honor of giving him his last flight by spreading his ashes over the family farm at Roxburgh. So cool to see these photos... Bald head and cheeky grin, just the way I remember him. My Aunt gave me his old flight computer, it's cool - has all these cheat notes written on it in pencil, hate to think how many hours it's logged Doug was one of the pilots on my first trip to Vestfold and Larsemann Hills in Antarctica back in 1988/89. He was a fantastic guy - yep, bald head and cheeky grin - a great pilot and we spent a lot of time in the Hughes 500D. He was stationed in Darwin back then, and he said that he was crop dusting (in the UK?) between Antarctic seasons. If memory serves correctly he was also in Bunger Hills (Antarctica) back in 1986. I'm sad to hear that he has passed on. I'm sure I've got photos back from that time; GK please contact me if you'd like any. |
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Post by gk on Aug 21, 2016 11:34:10 GMT 12
Cheers Damian,
Yes I'd love some photos if you've got them.
I think you're right about crop dusting in the UK, could be wrong but he may have done some in Sudan as well.
He did have a good sense of humour, would generally announce his arrival at the Farm with a very low level, buzz of the House complete with a hail of super.
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Post by stewartm on Feb 18, 2020 11:48:24 GMT 12
I have been trying to find out what happened to Doug. I was a loader driver for him for 2 odd years. At that stage we had ZK DQC and ZK HDL. I have many story's I could tell about Baldy
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Post by cjc on Sept 11, 2020 22:03:16 GMT 12
Hi Stewart, Doug Crossan was my father. He died from Bowel Cancer in 2003. He continued to fly up until 2002. He moved to the Northern Territory of Australia in 1978 and was mustering cattle by helicopter. He did 3 months aerial spraying in the UK for many years and also went to the Antarctic most years in the 1980's and 1990's.
Hope this answers your question. If anyone has any good photos of my dad I would love it if you could email them to me. My email is hincar007@gmail.com
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