Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 15:32:36 +0100 From: Vintage Speedoboy Subject: The Plane of My Dreams (Revised) The Plane of my dreams AKA Child migrant. This is a work of fiction by Vintagespeedoboy. England 1955. I am seated at a window seat overlooking the right wing of the 4 engined airliner enjoying the view & wondering what the future has in store with thoughts of England & my memories now passing by at 5 miles per minute with the incessant steady roar of the engines as I look at them in constant amazement through the propeller arcs & the blow torch intensity of the exhaust flames emanating from the large diameter exhaust pipes when I see a glow underneath the cooling flaps on the inboard right engine which gets brighter & suddenly the engine's on fire, the propeller stops turning & the fire goes out with a stream of white vapour blasting out from the cooling flaps, within seconds the engine fire starts again with flames now trailing back a considerable distance & a brilliant incandescent glow from the engine when suddenly the wing folds up like a piece of paper as I look on in horror as the aircraft suddenly begins its death spin to the ground & I wake up screaming. "The plane's crashing!" I'm in a bed at Feltham Borstal in the hospital wing for my safety having had a cornea transplant at Moorfields eye hospital in London & now I'm crying loudly as this dream has frightened the life out of me, Josh the 16 year old room orderly comes immediately to my aid, comforts & hugs me before carefully washing out my eyes, placing on a fresh dressing & he also administers the antibiotic eye drops regularly. I know he's gay as every time he hugs me he has a hard on & right now there's a massive tent in his pyjama bottoms, he's already felt my cock a few times & always tells me he wants me to get better before he'll do any more stuff with me as I've been told not to get into highly exciteable situations, I just wish he'll get on with it as every time he touches me it's like jolts of electricity & he's now the one true friend I have left in the world. My names John, I'm 14 years old with dark hair standing 5ft 6" in my socks of an athletic build gained by playing football & riding an old rickety bike around the council estate. My journey here began when I went for a ride in a car which some older kids had nicked & the cops chased us into a road block, that's when I got out & ran for my life through some thick woods not seeing the thorny bramble branch hanging down until it was too late which ripped my face & my eye. Instead of the copper having to catch me, he was now treating me as a casualty & had me taken straight to hospital. The case went to court & I was sentenced to Borstal for 6 months even though it was a first offence, that magistrate must have had in for me, my parents never came to see me & even though I've wrote to them, there's not been a single reply to my letters. After a few weeks I was summoned to the governor's office & underwent a full medical examination by a doctor with a strange accent, I saw my file on the table marked. 'RMS Southern Star' Melbourne, I knew that it stood for Royal Mail Steamship having seen it in the school's dictionary & questioned it but was not given an answer, there were other files with boy's names on them & I wondered if they knew anything, another man came in & took away the files leaving only mine on the desk, I overheard a conversation between the doctor & the governor saying. "There's no way he can travel on that ship, for a start the journey takes about 2 months, what if he needs medical attention?, the sort he may need won't be on that ship, no you can't risk it, if they want him they'll have to fly him out there!". "OK, I'll phone them & let them know," after some minutes had passed I was taken back to the hospital wing. Over lunch I told Josh about the file & asked him why it had my name on it, he knew a lot about the goings on here & said. "They're sending you out to Australia, normally you would go by ship, they can't take that chance with you so they'll either wait or if they want you badly enough they'll put you on a plane." Suddenly I became very frightened with a look of horror on my face, if dreams do come true someone was sending me to my death, I had to think & asked Josh. "Listen, can you see if there's a book in the library about airliners?, I may be able to see what sort of plane I've dreamt about, the immediate issue is who's behind this & why am I being sent out there?", Josh returned with a copy of Jane's all the world's aircraft which I must have spent hours studying & eventually I found it, it was the Lockheed Super Constellation, I loved it every time I saw one flying & they were a beautiful aircraft, what remained unanswered was why an engine fire could have such devastating consequences, this is something that I would have to find out for myself & perhaps Josh could help me find an answer. I requested an appointment to see the governor which wasn't long in coming, as I entered his office there was a man seated there who spoke with the same accent as the doctor & he said a lot starting with. "John, you are very perceptive in discovering your travel plans & you are now being given the chance of a lifetime, how would you like to go to school on horseback?, to swim in warm seas?, to eat oranges which grow in your garden?, to never have to endure an icy winter?, to become a really good sportsman?, in short, to realize your ambition, it's all out there & waiting for you." "What about my eye, there's still stitches in it, who's going to take them out?" "I thought you might ask that, we have some of the best medical facilities in the world, as your destination is Melbourne, you will be seen & treated by a consultant at the Royal Eye & Ear Hospital in Gisborne Street, which is why you're flying out there instead of traveling by sea." "This is like manna from heaven, everything's too good to be true, when can I go & can Josh come with me?" "Your friend is shortly due for release, if he wants to go it'll cost him ?10, why don't you ask him & let the governor know, I'm sure we'll be happy to accommodate him." "You said about flying, who will I be flying with?" "You'll be traveling with Qantas on one of their Lockheed Super Constellations, they're quite a new aircraft, lovely to fly in & safe too, I've traveled on them myself, sonny you'll be traveling in style." "What about my parents, do they know anything about this?" "Sonny, I'm sorry to have to tell you, your parents have completely disowned you, they've even signed the piece of paper placing you into our care." Those words hit me like a thunderbolt; I felt anger & tears flooded my eyes as I bawled out. "Why? Why? In Gods name why?" It took a long time for me to calm down & the enormity of the situation to sink in when this man said. "Listen sonny, we're investing a lot of money in you to give you a brilliant future, everything which I said will happen, we are sending you out to a wonderful life, just think, in a few years time you'll have a lovely house with your own family, a nice car & a really good job, if you stay here your card's marked, you'll never be anything much better than a labourer & that'll be your entire career for the next 50 years." I left that office really looking forward to going but the dream weighed heavily on the back of my mind & it was now panning out, within days I will be boarding that aircraft, I had to speak to the chaplain right away, I requested an appointment & met him in the prison chapel. He was lost for words when I described the dream to him although he did answer. "You may have had a premonition of some kind although what you've experienced might happen to another aircraft altogether." "If that's the case, how do I warn them?" "How do you warn someone of an event that's about to happen when you don't even know when, more to the point, who's going to believe you?" His reply had me baffled; knowing that I was helpless in warning them really screwed me up inside when I asked. "Is there something which can be done?" "I tell you what' let me hear your confession & afterwards I will perform a blessing for a safe journey if that will make you feel better." I went into the confessional, recited my sins & was told which prayers to say after which he performed the blessing before I walked to the front of the altar & knelt down, as I gazed up at the crucifix I could clearly see that it was weeping. The chaplain said a prayer & splashed droplets of holy water over me before I knelt at a pew to say the prescribed prayers after which he directed me to light a candle, as I left the chapel I found that experience to be very poignant. Josh found out more about the Lockheed Super Constellation by asking a warder who knew someone who worked at the airport, what surprised me was being told that the aircraft's engines had a magnesium alloy crankcase, I knew from school just how easy it was for magnesium to catch fire & when it did, it burned with a brilliant white flare like flame, what shocked me & answered my question was that of an engine fire taking only seconds to destroy a wing in flight. Josh was now doing stuff with me & wanked me off a lot, I always shot big loads of cum out of my hard 6 inches spraying it over my chest which always surprised Josh, not knowing when I was going gave him the urgency to fuck me, no one had done this & he would be the one to pop my cherry, the first time being in the showers. Josh's cock was at least 7 inches & fat, he took his time entering me waiting for the pain to subside after which I really enjoyed it, when he came in me I lost count of his gushes of his cum as my cock sprayed cum onto the shower wall, afterwards we both spent ages in the showers in the afterglow of some really great sex. We had more great sessions together although we had to sneak into a store room with the ever present risk of being caught, it seemed to give more excitement to these sessions especially when Josh let me fuck him, no sooner had I put my cock into him I blasted loads of cum into him & within seconds the orgasm was so intense he had to put his hand over my mouth to quieten my screams & how anyone never heard us remains a miracle. One morning after breakfast I was taken back to my bed to find a suitcase with a full set of clothes together with sports kit, black nylon speedo swimming trunks, a wash bag, shoe shine kit, a pair of black heavy duty lace up shoes, army surplus rain cape, army mess tins, cutlery & an enameled mug. I picked up the trunks feeling how silky they were & when held up to the light you could almost look through them, I've never had so many clothes in all my life & my previous trunks were a well worn pair of school navy blue cotton PE shorts, I gazed at all these clothes when the warder said. "Hurry up sonny, you've got a plane to catch, better get that lot packed & you'll be wearing your suit." We were very smartly dressed when Josh & I were checked in for the flight & escorted out to the aircraft, I couldn't help gazing all over in amazement at its size wondering how it could get off the ground when suddenly I was seized by panic when I saw a pool of oil underneath the right hand inboard engine & smelled the high octane aviation gasoline fumes, I pointed to it screaming. "There's something wrong with that engine!", as both my escorts restrained me, they would have to drag me kicking & screaming onto that plane when suddenly I felt a sharp jab in my thigh, one of them had stuck a syringe in me & it wasn't long before I passed out. I woke up in my bed in the hospital wing feeling slightly woozy with Josh looking over me saying. "You caused one hell of a commotion at the airport & the governor was going to give you six of the best, it's a good job you did as the captain came out & looked at the pool of oil before having the engineers called out, when they checked that engine over they had the plane grounded & the flight postponed, I've just been told that they will have to change that engine before we fly." I felt a lot better when we did board the aircraft for a 9.30am departure the following day as though a great weight had been lifted from my mind having stopped the hand of fate in its tracks, we watched intently as each one of those huge Wright R3350 18 cylinder double banked radial compound turbo engines started up belching clouds of blue smoke & flames from the exhausts engulfing the aircraft in a fog before a man with 2 bats marshaled the aircraft which then taxied to the runway before the engines revved up with a deafening roar as the aircraft accelerated down the runway with flames blasting out from the exhausts like blowtorches & took off, the view was awesome as the aircraft climbed before flying into the clouds & looked even more awesome when we flew above them, the stewardess served us a snack before I was summoned to the flight deck by the captain. As I entered the flight deck, everywhere looked to be a mass of dials & electrical equipment, there were 2 pilots, a flight engineer & a navigator, it astounded me that it took 4 people to fly this plane, the captain introduced himself & said. "Sonny, what you did yesterday saved the aircraft from a possible disaster & I would like to thank you for doing so, can I offer you a cigarette?" "Yes please." I hadn't had one for weeks & as I took the first couple of puffs I felt the head rush you get when you take a drag, I looked back at the wing watching the wing flexions & some movement from the engines with their 16 foot diameter propellers spinning with their yellow tips describing an arc & thinking, 'Australia, here we come.' A Qantas Lockheed Super Constellation flying from London to Sydney on the Kangaroo route took almost 90 hours to complete the flight, calling at Frankfurt, Rome, Beirut, Calcutta & Singapore with an overnight stay, Djakarta, Darwin & Sydney. We took a connecting flight from Sydney to Melbourne's Essendon airport where we were met & taken to the Turana youth training centre for processing, I was immediately taken to Gisborne street to have my eye checked by a surgeon who was satisfied that it was healing nicely & given a supply of eye drops, this was the last time I saw Josh even though we had some great sex in a Singapore hotel, we were the best of mates & practically in love with each other, I never saw him again & it was also the last time I saw my suitcase full of clothes, I came to my allotted cell to find my prison uniform with an old shirt, a pair of shorts & worn out shoes on my bed, horrible thoughts ran through my mind that I had been cheated, by a stroke of luck I had changed into my speedos instead of underpants as they badly needed washing & therefore I managed to keep them, I would not have wished this on my worst enemy, whoever the powers that be were, this lot were certainly in charge & made sure you knew about it in no uncertain terms, I spent my first night crying myself to sleep. The following morning started with an hour in the gymnasium with a very hard PE session combining circuit & interval training & those instructors were hard mean bastards, even though we sweated buckets in the gym we were chased out of the showers almost as soon as you turned the tap on, however they did give us a good breakfast, I had a lot of questions to ask, a letter to send home & demanded to see someone in charge, I didn't have to wait long. I was escorted to the governor's office & led in, told to stand to attention & always to answer 'Sir', the governor stood up & inspected me, took a sniff before bellowing out. "This boy smells, take him away & make sure he has a good scrub up before you bring him back in here again!", I was smartly marched out & taken to the shower block taking a good long shower in the presence of both warders one of who was kind enough to pass me some carbolic soap, flannel & a towel. I returned to the office to see my file which had followed me out from England on the desk, after being asked to take a seat, the governor said in a stern voice. "I understand you have a number of questions to ask which I will try & answer to the best of my ability," as he picked up the file & glanced through it before putting it down. "Firstly I would like to know where my clothes are sir." "That isn't your concern, in any case if & when you do leave here they will no longer fit you." "I have 2 months of my sentence remaining, I'm sure I can wait those 2 months then I can go out to work sir," the governor picked up the file, opened it & presented the page to me with his finger on a certain line saying. "It says here that you are detained during her majesty's pleasure, read it for yourself, it means that we can keep you here for as long as we like, if need be for the rest of your life." "That's wrong, I was given 6 months, what is this?, I want to see a lawyer & get this sorted out & I want to write a letter home to my mum & dad, this is not fair!" "You should have thought of that before you came," pointing to the picture of the queen on the wall, he said. "It's up to her to decide when we can release you." The enormity of the situation now began to sink in & I burst out crying & was about to be led away to my cell when I blurted out between sobs. "May I please have some writing paper & envelopes," he passed me a few saying. "A letter to your mum will take 2 months to get there & don't seal the envelope as it has to be censored." That was the worst news for me, surely you can send a letter by air?, after all the flight only took 4 days, after crying into my bed for what seemed like ages, I had to compose myself & write that letter. A month had passed with each day as monotonous as the next, I had no money & all the jobs at Turana were taken, one day I saw a recruiting ad in The Age for RAAF apprentices to learn engineering trades, this was the military, the air force, I could learn how to fix planes & learn a trade for life, I wrote out my letter & gave it unsealed for posting which didn't need a stamp, days later I received a reply with joining instructions for an interview in the city, this could be my ticket out of here, I requested another appointment which I was granted promptly. "I understand you wish to join the air force, why is that your wish?" "Sir, I can't be a prisoner all my life, I have always wanted to work on planes, the one I was supposed to come on had something wrong with one of the engines & it was me who pointed this out to the captain, had it not been fixed there would have been 100 people lost that day, I want to help make flying safer, serve the queen & defend the country." It seemed as though my words had an effect on him as he thought long & hard before giving me a reply, before he could he sent me out of his office to make a phone call which seemed to take ages before I was readmitted. As I sat down, he had changed into a pleasant person altogether with the way he spoke & said. "Good news young man, I can release you to attend your interview although you will be escorted, I have spoken to both the air force & the department, you will have turned 15 by the time the apprentice engineering intake starts, it is the air force, they will become your legal guardians & responsible for you & if you want my advice you need to get fit, I can ask one of my instructors to help you as you only have until the new year before the course starts, you certainly have impressed me in that you really do want to make a go of it." "Thanks, I shan't let you down." "We'll see how you get on, good luck with your interview." After Lunch I now had a room mate who arrived on the Southern Star that morning, Bernie was a few days younger than me with blonde hair, light blue eyes, Nordic facial features & a wiry physique, coming from Feltham he was surprised to see me, we hugged as we greeted each other before he asked. "How's that eye of yours?" "It's fine now, they'll be taking the stitches out in about 8 months time, right now I can see out of it perfectly, how was your voyage?" "It was fine until we sailed into the Indian Ocean & into a huge storm, the boat was tossed around like a cork, all the portholes & hatches were shut, everyone had to stay in their cabins & everyone must have been seasick, I've never seen so much sick in all my life." "Listen, there's some funny business going on here & don't tell anyone I told you, promise!, they've changed all our files to tell them we're detained at her majesty's pleasure, they've probably lied like fuck to our parents as to where we are, have you tried writing to them? & got no reply, they've also nicked our suitcases; all you've got is what you're standing in." "They can't do that, it's not right & it isn't fair! if what you're telling me is true, we've been dumped out here miles away from home." "Bernie, trust me on this one, they've already done it!" he looked at me & tears flooded his eyes as he bawled out loudly sobbing out. "Oh god, why!, why!, bastards every one of them, why can't we go home?" as he cried into my bed. "Because the fare costs a fortune, neither of us has any money, a letter home costs a tanner & takes about 2 months to arrive, cheapest air letter is 7 pence for an aerogramme from the post office which someone has to go & get for you & you have to keep your letter to just one page the size of an exercise book." "How do you know all this, I bet you've already tried knowing you." "I've tried to write to my mum from here & would have got a reply long before now; I tell you they're stopping our letters." "Bastards, they can't keep us here forever, I reckon they'll put us out working somewhere." "Bernie, there is a way out of here, but you really have to want to do it & that's to join the air force as an apprentice, I reckon if you tell the governor that you really want to do it, he'll pull a few strings & get you joined up." "I'm not so sure, besides I wasn't in the air cadets, I wouldn't know what to say." "Look, it's got to be better than slaving away on a farm or some factory or whatever for sods all, besides the pay's good." It wasn't long before Bernie was summoned to the office to be told the rules & when he asked about joining the air force, he was given his letter to write which was sent off without any questions being asked, he entered the cell saying. "They've let me write to them & he's phoned them asking to look out for my letter." "See, I told you, we'll have an interview, a medical, take aptitude tests & if we do well, we're in when the New Year comes." The door flap opened & a voice spoke. "Come on Archer, time to get dressed into your nice new uniform that's on your bed then pack all your belongings into your suitcase," Bernie undressed to change into his uniform & when I sneaked a look at his bottom the sight of those weal's is one which I will remember for the rest of my days as he now stood in front of me. "What the fuck happened to you?, whoever did this to you ought to be shot!" "Long story, I absconded from an approved school & stowed away on a ship at Liverpool which only went to the Isle of Man, I got a job as a deck chair attendant which didn't last as I always came in late & got fired, I got by stealing a few things & selling them on the beach, my luck ran out when I took a radio from a shop & ran out with the shopkeeper chasing me, I knocked some old lady over, a copper brought be down with a flying tackle, took me to the police station & I had to go to court the following morning, I was taken back to the mainland & handed over but before that I was sentenced to 9 strokes of the birch, if you thought a caning hurts, that's a hell of a lot worse & they ripped my bum apart doing it, to add insult to injury they made me pay for another pair of underpants saying that I soiled government property because of the blood on them." "I didn't think they were allowed to do that anymore, they're bastards for doing so, anyway, what happened when you got back?" "I was taken straight to Feltham Borstal & sentenced to six of the best, when the time came & the doctor examined me he had it postponed because my bum was in a hell of a state & wouldn't be able to withstand a caning, then this bloke in a suit comes telling me about a place where I could have oranges for breakfast, ride horses to school, swim in warm seas, get a proper education, learn a real trade & make loads of money, this sounded like paradise as we wouldn't have a hope in England especially if you've been in a Borstal, I wrote home asking if I could go & never got a reply, they told me my parents died in a car crash, I know that's a lie as dad hasn't even got a car, I was only told that after the ship sailed." As Bernie packed his suitcase he left out his wash kit to freshen himself up & looked in his pocket mirror which came in a khaki pouch, it had 2 holes, was made of highly polished metal & was marked with a broad arrow, I asked him. "May I see that?" as I took a close look at it saying. "Do you know what this is?, it's called a heliograph, you can flash messages in Morse code with this when the sun's out which can be seen miles away, you make sure that you keep it." "Bloody hell, dad let me have it; I thought it was just an ordinary mirror, besides I don't know Morse code." "I do, having learned it in the scouts, here, I'll show you how it works." I demonstrated the mirror thoroughly explaining its operation with him looking on in total amazement, here was an instrument capable of communicating with the outside world if only I could set up a receiving station, on the other side of the coin would be the thorough searches which would result were flashes to be seen coming from the building. The interview took place in the city which must have taken all morning; we had a thorough medical examination by a doctor who looked carefully at Bernie's slowly healing scars & passed us both fit for service, then came all the form filling & intelligence testing which was likened to a school session & having to find clothes for us obviously didn't please the prison's coffers although it's the price they had to pay for taking our suitcases away, our escorts had a very mean demeanor all the time & wouldn't speak to us, their plans called for us to be slaving away somewhere & hadn't bargained on us taking the Queen's shilling with the air force being a more powerful organization than most government departments, it wasn't long before we received our letters confirming our successful applications together with joining instructions & travel warrants for RAAF Wagga Wagga in New South Wales. The instructors did a fine job of training & coaching us although we could only run around the grounds & it wasn't long before the staff got used to us, it took some doing to allow us a dispensation to go swimming which was accompanied by another instructor who worked us hard in the pool, we took care not to lose this concession & were glad we hadn't, we were ready, or thought we were at what the RAAF could throw at us, the friendship between us grew stronger which also forged our doing stuff together making it really enjoyable, we had now become the best of pals & about to become brothers in arms, The one thing we hadn't thought about was the Australian summer with its fiery hot days pushing the thermometer over 100 degrees Fahrenheit together with the flies & those damned mosquitoes, even when you're fast asleep that high pitched buzzing of just one is enough to wake you & make you dive under the covers, we were both living in fear of a tiny insect every night which we knew when the buzzing stopped it had landed on your person & bitten you, yet we had to keep the windows open to let in the night air which cooled the cell down after a few hours, we were about to start our careers right in the middle of a hot fiery Australian summer & boy were we glad when our captors brought us mosquito nets & insect repellent, we were told later that the air force didn't want us going down with a disease caused by mosquito bites which we had not yet built up immunity to & their inoculations would take care of that. During the month of December we were granted more freedom which was spent exploring the city, we went window shopping, ate our packed lunches in the park, our escorts took us to the zoo & we even spent days at St Kilda beach swimming in the sea which felt like a tropical lagoon compared to England, it was whilst we were in the sea one day when we must have swam out a long way when we sighted an unusual seaplane with a rearward facing propeller behind the wing, it was a Republic RC3 Seabee, this was an aircraft which neither of us had never seen before which flew low over us & our escort then told us it was a shark spotter. We both screamed in fright saying. "Nobody's told us about sharks!, are you trying to get us both killed or something?" "It's not like that, if there's any sharks around that plane will see them before we will, just you relax." After that we felt very uneasy in the water & swam back to the beach, there were still lots of people in the water so we decided to keep near to the shore before we got out & laid on the beach basking in the sun. Our instructor who took us swimming arranged for us to train for our Bronze medallions, what swung it for us was the thought of being a lifeguard later on; the qualification was a passport to earning some money either as a part time job or on days off which appealed to us both. The training was hard & we had to study our handbooks during the evening, by now we were very strong swimmers capable of swimming long distances which just a few months ago was beyond our wildest dreams, our thoughts went back to the guy at Feltham who asked us if we would like to swim in warm seas & here we were doing just that. We both sailed through our Bronze medallion tests & celebrated by being given a small measure of ice cold beer from a bottle which our instructor bought whilst we sat in a park. We were spending more evenings watching the television, reading newspapers, magazines & listening to a radio which had been brought into our cell, our captors weren't spying on us as much now & with Bernie's bottom healing nicely from the weals when he was birched we could now have the most amazing sex together. Our bonds of love for each other grew stronger by the day & we both knew each others intimate spots, it was sheer bliss when I finally pushed my cock inside his boy pussy for the first time much as it was the same for Bernie, the electricity just flowed between us together with our love for each other which flowed out of both our cocks with our spunk together with the most awesome & intense orgasms we've ever experienced in our young lives even though we've both messed around with other school kids, it was never as good as what we were now experiencing. Christmas day saw us enjoying an Australian tradition of Christmas dinner on St Kilda beach, something totally unheard of back home even though we ate out of a pair of Australian army mess tins which we bought from Mitchell's in Russell street, yes we were now being given pocket money & I also bought a pocket heliograph shaving mirror & practiced sending morse code. Boxing Day saw us going to a barbecue with our instructor's family & boy were we glad of having insect repellent, it seemed like the flies even tried chasing the food into our mouths; we spent ages recounting both our past stories with much interest from our hosts who were kind enough to give us both a glass of ice cold beer to wash our meals down with. Over the next few days we were given suitcases of clothes, both formal & working, sports kit, wash & shave kits even though we hadn't started shaving yet, we tried all our clothes on & everything fitted albeit on the loose side to allow for our still growing bodies, the days now passed quickly & we even saw in the new year before finally it came down to our last night there followed by an early breakfast before being driven to Spencer street station with a fiver in our wallets which was our release money & saying our goodbyes as we were seen off on the train to Wagga Wagga in New South Wales, it was now 'In for a penny, in for a pound,' we watched the countryside passing by captivated by its beauty & at journey's end we boarded a military truck parked outside the station together with others who were also on the train for the 6 mile journey ending our lives as civilian boys, our careers in the Royal Australian Air Force was about to begin. We were allocated into our flights, issued our uniforms, webbing & kit, allocated our bed spaces with our names displayed above the bed in wooden huts, given our inoculations & started our basic training which included going back to school, our uniforms were khaki tropical dress consisting of a bush shirt, shorts, knee high socks, a forage cap & shoes, every morning started with PT, at first this was a run as a squad where the PTI's led us around the camp & they were mean hard bastards followed by showers & a good breakfast, the food here was very good. OMG did we hate doing drill, we looked like a load of boy scouts in our uniforms & the flight sergeant always screamed at anyone doing anything wrong, I'm sure he could spot a fleck of dust on a boy's uniform at 100 paces & I reckon he was trying to weed out the weaklings, if so he was doing a damn good job. A short magazine Lee Enfield service rifle weighs in at around 9 pounds & we had to learn how to handle it effectively starting with rifle arm exercises (more commonly known as pokey drill), it amazed us how the corporal with his tree trunk like arms could throw one around like a toy & every one of us suffered from aching arms & was cursing like hell. Then came the weapon training where we learned to strip & clean our rifles, load & unload using inert rounds, learned all our firing positions, immediate actions in the event of malfunctions & we had to learn everything about the rifle off by heart before they tested each & every one of us so we could fire it live on a 25 yard range with a Morrison tube .22" conversion at a paper target. The shoot was done as a competition with everyone putting a shilling in the hat, to fire the rifle we had to re-cock it each time as it was a single shot bolt action although you fed the rounds into the magazine, as these rifles had their sight set for firing full bore on a range, we had to find our aiming spot on the target for which you fired the first 5 rounds before you went into the competition proper. It was now my turn to fire & everyone found it very uncomfortable lying on your front on a thick horsehair mat which seemed to dig in to any bare skin which came in contact with, I had fired a very close group with those 5 rounds & knew where to aim, when we finished we had to lay the rifles down with the bolt drawn back facing down the range whilst we went & collected our targets, we all sat down on the floor whilst the instructors counted our scores, finally the results were announced with the sergeant saying. "Gentlemen, the winners of the competition is a tie between Airman Wetherall & Airman Georgio, you two get to share the prize money which is 15 bob each, well done you two," this is the first time I had fired anything & now I had 15 bob in my pocket, then the sergeant announced the runner up. "In second place is Airman Archer who gets 5 bob & third is Airman Foyle who gets his shilling back," both lads walked down to collect their prizes, this was just a prelude to the main competition when we would fire the rifles full bore on a target range. Our training progressed over the weeks with lots of ground school where we learned safety in wild country, general service knowledge, &c, in between all this we were cleaning our huts, ablutions, pressing our uniforms, cleaning our kit, shining our shoes, making our beds, doing our homework & then there was the rota of cookhouse fatigues where we had to wash up after the evening meal, fire watch duty which was similar to sentry stag duty except that you carried a pick helve to defend yourself & a whistle, it would be a miracle if you found time for sex. We all had a taste of the gas chamber where you had to enter a chamber full of riot gas wearing your gas mask & gas cape, shut your eyes, pull off your gas mask & recite your name & service number before a pair of burly arms threw you out the door & you hoped to god there was a breeze blowing as any moisture on your body which came into contact with the gas would be smarting for ages & a few lads had to flush their eyes out under a running tap. We were all much fitter now than at any time in our lives, PT had graduated to an indoor gymnasium where we were doing gymnastics, rope climbing & playing team sports, Bernie & myself had to learn about Australian rules football which is the national game & we went swimming, for a country which is heavily into sports it surprised us how many lads couldn't even swim which ended up with the best swimmers pairing up with a lad who couldn't swim, here the PTI's were very professional at coaching us so we could teach our partners, I was paired up with a lad called Johann Schweizer who's family came from Germany, he had light blond hair, the most striking blue eyes, of the same size & build as myself & he was the fastest runner in our flight, I taught him with the patience of a saint & within 3 sessions he managed to swim his first 10 yards, after that I concentrated on improving his stroke technique & he came along in leaps & bounds, not only did he pass the RAAF swimming test, he was entered for the swimming gala at the end of our basic training, I did managed to give him a few good wanks in the cubicle & he returned the service every time, we both had to make sure that we had a rag in our pockets whenever we went to the pool. It was during our first free time when we went into town that I called into the post office & bought an aerogramme air letter & wrote to mum, that letter did arrive & she was in a shock when it did, my parents were told that I had absconded from borstal & never been found & if I know my dad, he kicked up a right stink, so much so that I was summoned before the base commander & questioned as to what I wanted to do, offered a discharge as of right & told to think about it, I returned after 2 days to give my answer, I decided to stay, I was well advanced in basic training & had a good career ahead of me as an aeronautical engineer, the officers were confident that I would make the grade with distinction so I was not going to throw that away, I wrote to mum later that evening explaining my reasons for not coming home, little did I know that the mountain was coming to Mahomet. I loved the field exercised out in the bush, at first we were given demonstrations of pyrotechnics, shown how to erect a hoochie by tying 2 gas capes together as a low flat basha with a slant to allow rainwater to run off the shelter, we soon cottoned on to buying green shower curtains for our hoochies or you could send off to a shop in Sydney for a surplus Australian army hooded poncho which loads of us did, they truly were a wonderful piece of kit a lot bigger than a gas cape & ideal for riding a bicycle in the rain, there were other tricks which we learned which made our lives on bush camps better such as using a US army water bottle instead of the felt covered one we were issued with which also came with a mug & doubled as a cooking utensil, one snag with those mugs was you could burn your lips if you drank hot liquids from it. On the morning of our first bush camp, we had to parade for an inspection, the previous day our instructors were the friendliest blokes on the planet, they showed us everything, how to erect our hoochies by tying 2 gas capes together forming a low flat shelter, our field rations & how to cook & prepare them using hexamine cookers & loads of other tips. That first evening was like being in the scouts, placing us into small teams, each one had to perform a skit & then you either had the choice of telling a joke or a ghost story before we had a game of flag which our flight won. That next morning must have been hell on earth, corporals screamed at us for dirty boots, uniforms not brushed down, dirty mess tins & cutlery which they threw into the bush & poor unfortunate lads had to retrieve them followed by a run down a track & back before we were lectured about looking after ourselves & our kit. Later bush camps became more tactical with us armed with our rifles & blank ammunition, it was great fun getting into skirmishes with all the loud bangs from thunderflashes, our rifles & the Bren gun, all this training had a purpose as each & every one of us may be called upon to defend our airfield & protect commonwealth assets quite possibly in time of war. We also went onto expedition training in mountainous country with 2 man tents & carrying our kit in rucksacks, the summer started turning to autumn & with us being up mostly around 2,000 to 3,000 feet, it certainly did get cold, we all wore green anorak jackets & long trousers giving us the appearance of either a school or a youth organization, one purpose of these expeditions was to train us in navigation skills, teach us to respect our environment & the interests of farmers & land owners. Money was the one thing we all looked forward to, every week we had our pay parade where we waited in single file before marching up to the desk stating your name, rank & number, the pay clerk counted your money out in front of you & you had to state if the pay was correct, what none of us expected was that our food & accommodation charges were deducted from our pay which initially made us feel as though we've been cheated although you received your full amount during periods of declared field conditions & you also received your pay slip. You couldn't spend much of it anyway apart from the base shop, post office & the tea van which came around mid morning & afternoon & was like a mini tuck shop inside so I opened a post office savings account & saved up, for what I as yet didn't know apart from the old saying of a rainy day. Our basic training of 10 weeks had now come to an end & the highlight of this is the passing out parade which is also where the prizes are awarded for the champions with myself winning the champion shot at shooting, this is a day when boys parents are in attendance to see us all dressed in our blue uniforms, I saw both of mine & so did Bernie but we both had to hold our composure despite our emotions being on a hair trigger, we had our end of course & individual photos taken & with the parade over I hugged both my parents who had flown out from the UK. This was the proudest day of my young life & my emotions erupted like a powder keg which poured out like a tap as I kept on crying, their hands hugged my well conditioned muscular body & somehow the feel of dad's hands sent jolts of electricity through me & I sprang a huge boner inside my uniform, they certainly noticed my having grown a couple of inches, my body filling out & yet I still had stitches in my eye which both my parents studied very closely, they were due to come out & the RAAF arranged the appointment with Gisborne street during my leave, I was now going home, not to England but their recently bought & paid for house at South Caulfield, Melbourne in dad's nice new car. To think that a year ago both my parents were struggling to make ends meet & somehow a miraculous change of fortune had occurred making me think that dad had won the pools or something, it was partially like that, he had created such a stink that they paid for his entire move & he was given 500 quid provided he signed a piece of paper stating that he wouldn't return & apply for a council house, he also won 300 quid on the pools which was somehow mysterious as he didn't do the pools leaving us wondering as to who did buy the ticket?. Dad's new job was an engineering supervisor at the Martin & King Pty ltd Volkswagen CKD (knock down kit) factory at Clayton & the car I'm now sat in the back of is a 1200cc Volkswagen beetle, we talked so much on the drive down to Melbourne until we pulled up at our weatherboard house in a quiet street off Gardenvale road, unloaded the car & placed my suitcase onto my bed. Like any boy, I explored the house & gardens, it wasn't long before I was tasked with my boyhood errands of tidying the garden, the walk to the shops &c &c, I was missing something very important, I needed a bicycle & a glance through The Age found Bruce Small's advert for his shop in Elizabeth Street, I took my RAAF ID & post office pass book, boarded the number 64 tram to the city & with assistance from the proprietor selected a Malvern Star racing bicycle fitted with Derailleur gears & brakes, cashed some of my savings at the GPO in Collins street which required them to make a phone call & bought the bike together with a strong lock, chain & lights. I was in a state of euphoria as I rode along the St Kilda road on a real thoroughbred racer, I had dreamed of owning one as a boy & dad could never afford to buy me one, I had paid for this bike pound notes cash from my own money & parked it in the garage before entering the house with my own key, tonight I will be sleeping in a nice comfortable bed. Before that I helped mum prepare & cook our evening meal whilst dad set the table, mum served the meal whilst dad said grace, lit a candle & said a thank you prayer for my homecoming. It was during our meal that I saw a huge battleship grey spider on the wall which was as big as my hand, dad wanted to kill it but I stopped him, it was a huntsman spider which is harmless & kids keep them as pets, having that spider in the house would certainly reduce the number of flies so we let it take up residence in our house & it repaid our hospitality by eating flies for lunch. After I washed up I took a long shower, I had to get my head round the antiquated Metters bath heater which heated up the water with a lever either sending it up to the overhead shower or down to the bath, I took a good long shower & gave my cock which had grown to 6.5 inches a good wank, it didn't take long before those lovely feelings built up especially with the water playing on the tip of my cock when I shot out several squirts of spunk hitting the far wall, I must have had about a weeks worth stored inside my balls, once I finished I cleaned the bath & the spunk off the far wall, dried myself up before sitting in the living room with a cup of tea which I didn't finish as I fell asleep in the chair. Mum got me up & I went straight to bed, it was so comfortable & I was so tired I fell asleep straight away. The following morning I was up at 6am, I had become used to waking up at this early hour, both my parents were still fast asleep & dad wouldn't be up for another hour, I took a shit & a piss, donned my sports kit, took my key & left the house, it was a few yards downhill into Gardenvale road, seeing the Brighton cemetery wall to my right, I turned left for my run following the road, crossing the Nepean highway into Martin street following it till I arrived at the beach, turned right until I arrived at Elwood beach which is a sandy beach with golden sands, even though it was a very nice early autumn morning, I gazed at my surroundings glad that our house is just a short distance from the seaside & went for a swim in the sea. I ran back to the house & took a shower before cooking our breakfasts, dad wanted to know where I've been & I explained to him as I was now in the military I now had to keep myself fit having been out for a run & a swim in the sea. With the train station ideally placed I took the train to Flinders street, it was a Saturday morning & I soon arrived at Elizabeth street, this street has all the motorcycle shops in the same street which on a Saturday morning looks like Douglas sea front during TT week on the Isle of Man, I have never seen so many motorcycles in my life & gazed in awe at them, obviously there was a police presence to make sure they behaved themselves, I went exploring the city before returning on the train stopping off at the milk bar on the corner in Kooyong road, ordering a chocolate malt thick shake, buying a loaf of bread, butter & a jar of IXL marmalade. After lunch I went for a ride on my bike meeting up with a group of youngsters at the nearby Princes park on Hawthorn road, all their bikes were absolute wrecks, none were fitted with brakes & being the only new bike amongst this group certainly got me some jealous glances & questions as to where the money came from to buy it, I told them it came out of my air force pay & it seemed as though their whole mood changed, their first questions was. "Have you been up in a plane?", what's it like to fly?" & loads of other questions. They loved it when I re-counted my experiences of the flight in the Lockheed Super Constellation, the sight of all their bicycles gave me an idea which I gleaned from Patrick, a blond haired 14 year old in the group who had built his bike which was scavenged as a wreck from the dump. An old crate of a bicycle certainly would be ideal at Wagga Wagga, to start with it's unlikely to be stolen & my racer would be safely stored in the back room which is built as an extension to the house until whenever I came home on leave, both Patrick & I checked out the dump, sneaked in through the fence & picked one, this kid certainly had a keen eye for finding good bicycle parts & with the tools he carried in an old oil stained haversack, he set to work constructing one from the parts scattered all around him, the finished bike was fitted with cable operated brakes at my insistence for safety, a Sturmey Archer 3 speed hub, a Middlemore leather saddle & cow horn type handlebars, I had to throw the bike over the fence, wheel both bikes home & went for a ride with Patrick on my newly constructed wreck of a bike calling in at a milk bar to buy him a coke & give him 10 bob for his trouble. This poor lad seemed as though he was always broke & giving him the money certainly cemented a really good friendship with him in more ways than one, as it got dark he took me to a secluded corner of a nearby park, parked our bikes & surprised me when he embraced me with his 5 foot 6inch frame, humped his shorts encased rock hard cock into mine pleading with me with. "Please do me." I became speechless at this lad who triggered primal lust in me, I held his cock through the cotton material of his old navy blue school cotton PE shorts identical to the pair in my air force kit & no doubt bought from Mitchell's in Russell street, it felt really fat with a bulbous head & there was a wet patch where some fluids obviously leaked out of his cock, I guessed its length somewhere around 8 inches & said to him. "You've got a really big one tucked in there." "I'm proud of it, every day whenever I wank it off it feels so good & squirts heaps." He partially dropped his shorts & underwear which was heavily stained with urine & the juices which flowed out from his cock whenever he becomes sexually excited & gets a hard on, I wanked it for a few strokes then put it inside my mouth giving it both a good sucking & tongue lashing whilst massaging his nipples exactly how Josh taught me in England. Patrick went into sensual overdrive at my ministrations bucking & heaving as his 14 year old cock jerked heavily & spewed out his love juices sometimes with a thin squirt into my mouth, he didn't take long at all when he blasted out a huge load of spunk bigger than any which I've seen from the lads at the air base with him screaming his head off. He went into a huge lengthy afterglow whereby we both had to sit down on a bench where he snuggled up to me almost like a sleeping lover in a total state of relaxation, his cock still kept jerking for a long time afterwards leaking out whatever spunk still remained inside his balls until it finally went soft. As he became more awaked from his partial slumber, he lit up a cigarette & smoked it whilst talking, he now had a peaceful smiling expression on his face when he planted a huge kiss on me saying. "That was awesome mate, no one's ever done me like you & I will want it again." "The next time I do, I am going to show you a really good time, how about it sport?" "That'll be a real beauty mate, fancy a ride to Elwood." We arrived at the deserted beach in the dark, the sea was still warm for the time of year & I locked both bikes up with the lock & chain, Patrick pointed to a platform about 200 yards from the shore saying. "Let's swim out to that." "I don't have my swimming trunks." "Neither do I, it's a real beauty to swim in the nude." "We call that skinnydipping back home; it's just that I've never done it before." "Come on sport, you'll really like it," we both took off our clothes & left them on the beach, waded into the water & swam out to the platform, climbed onto it & sat down admiring all the lights around us & looking at the city skyline, it was a lovely night with a warm breeze blowing from the land, we laid down on the wooden surface gradually drying off before we both ended up in a lovers embrace with rock hard cocks, Patrick knelt on all fours presenting me with his boy pussy hole saying. "I really want you to give me a thoroughly good rooting," I quickly guessed what he meant as Australians use different words for the same meaning, something which I was gradually getting accustomed to. We didn't have anything to lube with which didn't really pose a problem as lust towards this boy seized hold of me as I gave my rock hard cock a few good strokes with my hand before my love juices leaked out, I pushed it up to his boy pussy & it went straight in, I started to pound him slowly whilst I held his hips which didn't satisfy him at all, with lust running riot through him, his voice speaking with grunts I pounded into him hell for leather which is how he likes it. Within minutes his spunk flew out of his cock without ever touching it, his boy pussy clenching onto my cock tipped me over the edge with those feelings building up so fast as gush after gush of spunk flooded deep inside him with feelings so powerful I screamed my head off & swore we could have been heard from anyone on the beach, we laid there with my cock still jerking inside him remaining as hard as a rod of iron, when it finally deflated, spunk ran out from his hole as we locked into another lovers embrace with Patrick peacefully half asleep on top of me. When he did arouse from his partial dream like slumber his next request was for a sleepover, my bed was only a single sized bed & I would have to ask my parents as they haven't even met him yet, we rode to my house, put our bikes in the garage, went in & introduced Patrick, with him having built my bike to take to the air base, all the sex we've had plus skinnydipping in the sea, I didn't have his address & got a surprise when he told us, he was the boy next door. He went into his house & returned with a tin of Milo for our nightcaps before we finally retired into my bed in another lovers embrace & quickly fell fast asleep. It was a beautiful Sunday morning when we both woke up from our dream like state with our usual rock hard cocks, Patrick's head was leant into my shoulder with his breath playing onto my bare chest, we talked quietly for ages before we both got out of bed, this was the first Sunday lie in I had in over 6 months & I treasured every moment until we both showered, dressed & I helped mum cook breakfast. Patrick was the first person to enter our living room to take his place at our table when an unearthly scream erupted from him with a frightened look on his face, he encountered our huntsman spider in the room which frightened the life out of him, he was scared of spiders & was about to stamp on it when I suddenly shouted in a loud voice. "Patrick!, leave that spider alone, it's a huntsman & it won't harm you." As we ate our breakfasts his gaze fixed on the spider throughout his meal without ever taking his eyes off, during later visits he became used to its presence in the room & eventually his parents thanked him for not killing it. We went out for a good long ride on the bikes with Patrick giving me a guided tour of the area, but had to be home in time for Sunday dinner, with the invite from Patrick's parents we pooled our resources into the meal which we ate slowly, I helped with the washing & drying up before we sat down in their living room to listen to the radio, television was in its infancy in Australia having only just been introduced. That evening we drove to a drive in movie in both our cars to watch 'The dam busters'. The following day Patrick had to return to school whilst I took the tram into the city to shop at Mitchell's, I wanted some camping kit for our sleepovers either in the back garden or out in the bush, I bought another Australian army hooded poncho as my first one was still at the air base, a mosquito net, a MK V groundsheet, German flat pocket torch, a bedroll, enameled mug, solid fuel Tommy cooker & a rucksack, all Patrick would require is a bedroll, plate, mug & cutlery, when I returned home I showed him my kit & the thought of a sleepover under canvas thrilled him to bits, I had already camped out in the field with the air force during training, I would have to take some of the kit back with me for more exercises out in the field even though I would be returning to start my trade training. The following morning I went to my appointment in Gisborne Street to have the stitches taken out of my eye, after breakfast I took the tram to the city right to the northern end of Swanston Street, from there it was a short walk to the eye hospital, I presented my RAAF I.D to the receptionist who checked the appointments book & beckoned me to a seat. Fear & uncertainty gripped me as I sat in the waiting room, it seemed as though time had almost slowed to a stop, thoughts of someone poking things into my eye horrified me to the point of running out of the room, I had come this far & this was one demon I would have to face & square up to if need be, I was never a person who backed down from a fight & drew on this inner strength as my name was called & a nurse escorted me into surgery. I laid on the operating table having a wonderful conversation with the surgeon dressed in an operating gown with only my underwear on underneath, we talked about my flight over & lots about the air force & planes in general when I suddenly felt a sharp prick on my hand followed by passing out. That jab probably only lasted a couple of minutes or so as my eye felt totally numb as it constantly looked up at the bright light, whatever the surgeon was doing I certainly couldn't feel it, I just laid there perfectly still at peace with myself in the knowledge that I was in excellent hands & the demons weren't even there in the first place, within a matter of minutes it was all over, I felt as though I had won the day even though I had a numb eye which felt like I had been clouted with a boxing glove, I was given a very nice cup of tea made with condensed milk with Tim tams biscuits, 'OMG I love those biscuits to bits,' afterwards I was given an eye patch to wear, some eye drops with prescriptions for more, It was at this point when I realized that dad hadn't yet registered with a family doctor resulting in my treatment notes & prescription being sent to the medical centre at RAAF Wagga Wagga. I must have been in some sort of a daze on the tram ride back home; it always seemed to jolt whenever it moved off & whenever it slowed down using its brakes a cloud of dust always blew inside the tram & there was this god awful clattering racket whenever its compressor which operated the air brakes ran, I emptied our outside mail box which had a letter for me, entered an empty house with my key, made a cup of tea with a slice of cake, laid on top of my bed with the radio on & slept. All too soon my week's leave was over, I would be returning with my bicycle, freshly laundered uniform &c, I took the train from Spencer Street cashing in my warrant for the train ticket, on arrival my bike & rucksack was taken aboard the military truck before I clambered in, I felt really good having a bike here as it gave me more mobility, having the Malvern star here would probably see it being stolen, most likely from the nearby town, at least my bike looked like a wreck with its missing mudguards, patina &c &c, it was what I really wanted, we called these track bikes back in the UK, loads of kids rode them & I had very fond memories of those times on my Raleigh, it was a different bike parked in the bike racks, a Ricardo, picked & reconstructed by Patrick, it gave a really good ride & has already been off road albeit only in the local parks back home, during my week's home leave I was still a boy in a boy's world, Patrick was the catalyst for my being there, we had done so many things which boys do, here I was a boy in a man's world, we all were, trade training would be likened to going to school & college where we would have to knuckle down & study, the air force is the military, we would also be doing regular PT & sports sessions as well as continuing with our military training, as they say, 'You're a soldier first & a technician afterwards.' It seemed as though those PTI's really meant business when our first days PT session was a run around the airfield which truly was a serious distance, the cross country course at my old school was nowhere as far as this & running on an airfield just seems to drag on & on even though we was told it was only 3 miles, I crossed the line in 5th position to watch all the tail end charlies cop a beasting from those ruthless PTI's, a PTI corporal came up to me with a concerned voice asking to check my eye out & whether or not I was in distress with it heaving a huge sigh of relief when he had a look & I told him I was OK. Our first parade on the parade ground saw us hearing about those few who had dropped out, I had a good friend with Matt helping him along & now he was gone like the rest of them when the base warrant officer bellowed out. "Gentlemen, those who have left us are all losers; I don't want to see any more of you ending up like them because if you do, you will go through life a loser, probably ending up as a homeless bludger, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!" That guy's thunder shook all of us to the core reiterating a possible eventual outcome of failures of which there will be more to come even right at the final stage of trade training, failures normally were sent for training as airfield defence guards & if they weren't fit enough, it was the end of the road with an ignominious return to civilian life which in some respects seemed cruel, there were the guys who smoked at every opportunity they could grab, those who drank & always seemed to get away with it & on the other side of the coin are those who would gain a pound in weight simply by eating a hamburger, it was at that parade that morning I was told to report to the medical centre at 4.30 pm. The first phase of trade training covered the use of hand tools & a series of bench fitting exercises which entailed sawing with a hacksaw, filing, cutting with tin snips; chiseling, drilling & tapping threads, learning to read engineering drawings, technical drawing, learning to use precision measuring instruments & making pieces accurately to drawings by hand which entailed inspection with precision measuring instruments, our dress during these practical sessions required us to wear overalls & steel toe capped safety boots, PT was daily in the mornings as during trade training most of our time was spent working, billet & kit inspections were now weekly, lights out was 10pm. One of our instructors during this phase was a civilian whose close to retiring age, he was a laugh a minute with his jokes which kept us all in good spirits, this was likened to metalwork classes at school where we also made some items which were required out in the field from drawings, he supplied us with the materials for our 3 piece basha/hoochie poles made out of broom handles with steel tubing sleeves which had a slot in them for the stop screw & wire tent pegs from one quarter inch steel rod 6 inches in length, both items we had to pay for, our corporal bought loads of rolls of jute twine for our bashas which again we had to pay for, all these items enabled us to be more comfortable out in the field, it was at the end of the day's classes that I reported to the medical centre. I arrived in good time for my appointment which was mainly to have my eye checked & an eyesight test, the doctor was happy with the results, gave me my prescription eye drops, an eye patch to wear whilst sleeping & a pair of clear flat lens glasses to wear for eye protection, as I walked into the cookhouse for a late pre-booked evening meal the lads on my flight all started giggling saying things like. "Look whose got glasses," or "Four eyes," Goggle eyes," &c &c, of course the jokes soon wore thin as everyone certainly knew about my eye operation & the story behind it. I ate a light meal knowing that it would have barely one hour to go down before Australian rules football training on the sports oval, I had been picked by the PTI's & the purpose of this section is to select the team, the coaching was done by the sergeant in charge of all the PTI's & his demeanor was a lot more professional & instilled into us excellent team spirits, we really had a good session as he coached us through the rules, tactics, player positions &c &c of the game, during short breaks he showed us photos of players in action thoroughly explaining each one, at the end of the session every one of us was given a little booklet by Viscount cigarettes which had the laws of the game to study, my first day back was certainly a very interesting exciting day, now it was back to the grind of boot polishing & ironing our kit for the morning, followed by a visit to the NAAFI canteen. It was in there that I overheard a conversation between 2 corporals about an old man in India who cut keys from a roadside stall in Bombay, this person had the uncanny knack of looking at a key, he would then set to work using nothing more than a set of warding files & cut the key correctly, every time. The air base certainly wasn't a place to be having sex with another airman, although there were whispers of it going on, those caught faced jail & an ignominious dishonorable discharge, the bicycle enabled myself to ride some distance off camp & meet up with Bernie or another partner, the key was about to change all that, during one of my duties I became entrusted with a bunch of keys which is always kept in the guardroom, I knew which key fitted the store rooms & one day I compared the cuts on my house key to the store room key as a guide, I traced out the profile of the key & during workshop time I actually managed to cut a key from a blank obtained from a hardware store, cross referencing the different cuts on my house key using the school's warding files, later that night I tried the key in a store room's lock & it opened it straight away, my mind was in euphoric bliss, everything felt good around me, I had solved a problem which had to remain a closely guarded secret, I had become the key maker. I had also solved another problem, that of carrying a friend on my bike, I saw a kid standing on a pair of right angled brackets bolted to the rear wheel nuts, I explained what I wanted to one of the engineering instructors over a NAAFI break, a week later he had them already made for me, he had turned up a pair of steel threaded spigoted collars, turned up some heavy gauge steel tubing, bronze welded them in place, machined a knurl which acted as a grip for the soles of my passenger's feet & drilled holes in them for a tommy bar which is required to screw or unscrew them which he also supplied, stamped L & R onto each one & lightened my wallet by 2 quid. I undone the gear cable, removed each nut one at a time & fitted the foot peg tubes in their place, he had stamped which tube goes on which side of the wheel owing to the Sturmey Archer wheel nut having a left hand thread, it did mean leaving the toggle chain disconnected with the bike stuck in third gear, I took Bernie for a ride around the camp with him stood on the foot pegs holding onto my sides & were thoroughly enjoying ourselves when a voice suddenly bellowed out. "You two, get off that bike right now!" it was the base security police, they took both our names & our flight details, told him to walk & luckily we heard no more about it. Using the key I made Bernie & I sneaked into a store room, once we were in I checked to see if the key would lock the door from the inside before closing it which it did before locking the door from the inside as I knew the base security police do check all the door handles, we daren't switch any lights on & stripped off naked hugging, kissing & making the most passionate love to each other grinding our hard cocks into each other before I lubed him up, stretched his pussy hole with my fingers & slowly pushed my cock inside him, we hadn't done this for a while & my cock was now resting in a very tight pussy hole which felt awesome, it was jerking powerfully inside him when I pounded slowly into him, I was so worked up I shot a huge load of spunk inside my friend within a couple of minutes with such a hugely powerful orgasm I had to clench my teeth hard so as not to scream. Bernie too repeated the same with me & he too didn't last long at all as he unloaded his spunk inside me & almost screamed with his orgasm, we cleaned ourselves off with a rag which I bought with me by torchlight with my hand held over the beam head cutting out most of the light before putting our clothes back on, I checked that there was nothing left on the floor, slowly unlocked the door, made our exits & locked the door. We were both on euphoric highs as we walked back to our billet knowing that what we've done was very sneaky, highly exhilarating & remained our secret right throughout our training, once in our billet we had to dump each others spunk down the toilet. We found a really good swimming spot on the Murrumbidgee River, it has a large sandy beach & there were rocks about 600 yards upstream of the beach, Wagga beach is a beautiful swimming hole which becomes crowded in the summer & there's even people there late at night which rules out skinnydipping at that spot, there are other places we could go if only we didn't have to be back before lights out. The City baths is an Olympic sized outdoor swimming pool with diving boards up to 10 metres & is where we go most of the time, either for PT or on our sports afternoon, Bernie & I have been picked for the swimming team & are being trained there during some mornings, we're taken there & brought back in an RAAF bus, as apprentices we can get in with a pass, children normally pay sixpence for admission & adults two bob, everyone's swimming trunks have deep sides to them which is the normal style, even for Speedos which are now coming onto the market & a lot of lads at the base now wear them, they're even saying that they're like the Model T Ford car, you can wear any colour as long as it's black, the real beauty of these lightweight nylon swimsuits is that they are very quick drying, they also feel very sexy on the body making the sight of erect cocks in swimsuits very common, some of us have even worn them instead of our underwear especially during PT sessions. Our coach PTI didn't waste any time in entering us for our first competition, it seemed as though our bronze medallions which were presented to us on parade in some respects made us out to be better than we really were, Bernie was entered in the 50 metres breast stroke & won two of his heats making it to the semi finals, I was entered for the 100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres & the one mile freestyle races, I came second in the 100, fifth in the 400, won both the 200 & the mile, that race consisted mainly of final year apprentices with every one of them packing a physique like Charles Atlas & they were all aged 18, here was I, a 15 year old first year of a lighter build than them thinking I was unfairly entered & upsetting the apple cart, it was indeed a very hard race, there was all this noise as though the sky was about to cave in on the last two lengths, it was everyone cheering, they were cheering for me, I was so whacked out I blacked out as I tried to exit the pool, the next face I saw above me was a doctor & all he said was. "He'll be right," winning that race saw my photograph taken holding the trophy & mentioned in the sports pages of the local paper. Coach was certainly worried enough that he had me checked out at the medical centre, the doctor ran all sorts of tests on me in the presence of the coach culminating with performing rapid step ups for ages & listening to my heartbeat only to find nothing, finally it came down to a fast one mile run on the track with myself putting everything into the last lap, towards the end my pace was faltering as I began to expire from the effort & as soon as I crossed the line the doctor listened with his stethoscope, I was having to gulp down breaths & my heart was beating like a machine gun, still he found nothing wrong with me, there was no more tests he could run, all he could say to assure me was that I was one really fit youngster. It was in the shower when coach said. "There is one more test I would like to perform," I was right in the middle of taking a long shower & asked him. "Can it wait?". He was now naked & joined me in the shower; I was in seventh heaven enjoying the cascade of water when he suddenly took hold of my cock which got rock hard immediately as he said. "It's this & your functions which need testing, it's a very nice one for a first year," he stroked my cock & those feelings quickly built up as I said. "I'm about to shoot," when he suddenly took it in his mouth & sucked like there's no tomorrow, when I came, it was so intense, those feelings had me thrashing around all over the shower, I was literally seeing stars, I couldn't feel each & every contraction as my spunk flooded into his mouth, as soon as I was spent he kissed me pushing his spunk coated tongue into my mouth & for the first time ever I got a taste of my own spunk thinking I was going to taste something horrible, I found it to be nice when he then said to me. "You check out really fine plus it has to remain our secret." We walked to his car, an old American 1936 Ford Mercury coupe which is powered by a V8 221 cubic inch flathead engine sporting Edelbrock cylinder heads, this really was a seriously looking bad ass of a car & yet the comfort of this vehicle was unbelievable, he took me for a two hour drive in it, that huge engine really had a serious amount of grunt as the car accelerated & the headlights lit the road ahead with a brilliant light, I really felt safe in this car even though it was 20 years old, if had the very nice aroma of leather upholstery & fine polish, the car's interior was spotless & the radio worked, I searched through the dial trying out all the radio stations & we finally arrived at a roadhouse right out in the country with a lot of trucks parked outside & went inside for a coffee plus a meal of steak, egg & chips to replace the one I missed out on at the cookhouse which he kindly paid for. We arrived back at camp just before lights out, the lads in my billet certainly weren't happy with my absence what with having to iron my kit & polish my shoes, I had to think on my feet fast & said. "Coach took me to a specialist for some more tests which they couldn't do here, I'm sorry, I should have told someone." "That's OK, it's why we're a team & you're playing footy this Saturday. I thought OMG, it's the Easter weekend, we're all going on leave on Thursday at lunchtime, oh shit, that means remaining behind on the base for 2 more days of the holiday when I saw the wry smile on the room senior's face as he said whilst pointing at me. "Ha ha ha, had you!" The sense of relief which came over me was overpowering to say the least, I was going home to my family, to my beloved Patrick, my Malvern star racer, to a boy's world with an old beat up Ricardo bicycle fitted with passenger foot peg tubes which certainly will make me popular with the youngsters back home as I give each & every one of them a cabby on my bike, inside my rucksack is the trophy I won at swimming, when my parents see that they will be proud. Bernie & I sat on the platform waiting for our train for the first leg to Melbourne, the railways in New South Wales operated on Standard gauge whilst the railways in Victoria operated on a wide gauge necessitating a change of trains owing to the differing gauges in both states at Albury, the first train stopped & we both burst out laughing when we saw the nameplate on the Victorian railways diesel-electric locomotive which was taking us to Melbourne, it was B60, Harold W Clapp. We were checked in taking our seats for the ride to Melbourne placing the bike into the guard's compartment, the bike has now become a regular traveling companion, after our arrival at Spencer Street, we walked to Flinders Street station for the suburban train (more commonly known as red rattlers) to Gardenvale station as Bernie was spending the night with our family. We were both tired after our journey & still aching from all the sports & PT sessions of the week, the immediate things were to load the washing machine, cook a late light meal with a nightcap, snuggle up to each other in my bed & just went out like a pair of lights. We both woke up early the following morning as we were now used to early rising in the air force, we just laid there talking until we got fed up of the bed, showered & cooked breakfasts before waking dad up, I hung my washing out on the external rotary drying frame in the back garden & loaded Bernie's clothes in the washing machine, the doorbell rang with Patrick at the door, as soon as he entered he gave me such a huge hug & planted loads of kisses before grinding his hardening cock into mine. Bernie liked our house which certainly was bigger than the old Victorian council two up two down slum he lived at in the UK, to him our house was like a palace & it was in a nice quiet street with a few eucalyptus trees lining the street along grass borders, we had a large lemon tree growing in our back garden which had Bernie gazing at it in amazement, it was the first lemon tree he's seen & he's just eaten some of mum's home made lemon marmalade on his toast. His father came to collect him, his washing would be collected later, our chance meetings, firstly at Feltham & later at Turana became the catalyst for bonding our families together & both working for the same employer in good jobs. Both my parents gazed in awe at both the trophy & the bronze medallion, pride welled up in both of them knowing that this wouldn't have happened had we remained in the UK, all this had started with just a simple ride in a car, now the sight of a blue hammerite paint finished box in the garage sowed the seeds of an instrument of making small amounts of money, the label on it read 'Bollhoff helicoil fur Volkswagen' dad had borrowed it from his employers after signing a pass out, a teenage apprentice car mechanic knocked on the door with a cylinder head from his Volkswagen beetle, I watched him drill out the remaining damaged threads, re-tapped a new thread & using a special pre-winder tool fitted the insert thus repairing the head, the job only took a matter of minutes & he gave dad three quid, I learned a new phrase today, it was back yarder, it's the practice of a home mechanic repairing other peoples cars. It was only a short walk to his house, dad asked me to go with him & watch saying that I might learn something, although still a teenager, he competently re-fitted the cylinder head to his car showing & explaining to me in loving detail at every stage, I learned about push rods, valves, gaskets, carburettor &c &c, all words I would come to know later on. When he finished, he thoroughly washed his hands, jumped into the car, turned the key & the engine started straight away ticking over with it's characteristic dub dub note, he looked upon it as a funny looking German car, his parents bought it for him at a bargain price from a nearby used car yard known as 'Jack the bomb' a bomb being an Australian slang name for an old decrepit car, despite its high mileage the car proved very reliable & was liked by his girlfriend, being a teenager he was still of the age whereby he was undergoing the transition from sex with boys to sex with girls, he wanted the best of both worlds & now he wanted me!. We both ended up on his bed naked, he wanted me to do him in a certain way which was to kneel down facing his head & lower my young boy pussy onto his cock which was the same size as mine after he lubed up & opened out my hole with his fingers, his cock just slid right in & started jerking inside my hole immediately, mine started leaking out a watery white liquid onto his chest, as instructed I rode up & down on his cock whilst massaging my nipples with the palms of my hands, it was the first time I've had sex by this method & I really enjoyed it. As I rode his teenage pole, there was a highly intense pleasurable feeling in both my cock & balls, my nipples had become both erect & sensitive to my ministrations, this really was an education for me having this lovely experience passed onto me by an older teenager when suddenly his cock just grew in size & I felt several warm gushes of his spunk flood deep inside me, it felt so awesome with my pussy hole clenching onto his cock as jet after jet of spunk shot out several feet from my cock with such intense feelings I began writing & screaming my head off when suddenly the door opened & a boy looked in with a look of surprise, it was his 14 year old younger brother. I expected all hell to break loose, I was in the air force, if this got out I was facing a dishonourable discharge & a return to Turana whilst they decided what to do with me, fear racked through my brain, I had been caught on the job; it was such a huge relief when he came up & said. "I like what I saw, my brother's always doing it; will you please do me, please, please?" This young teen was begging & pleading loudly with me to have sex with him, I had only just shot a huge load of spunk & my balls were spent even though my cock was still jerking & the remnants of my spunk still kept on leaking out, I wanted to finish this quickly, took his cock out & slowly started stroking it with my hand whilst I watched it grow into a monster sized cock for a 14 year old. I continued stroking his cock which must be at least 8 inches if not more with a shaft as big as a golf ball & a huge ball shaped head with a long slit, it just kept on leaking loads of watery white fluids sometimes spraying a long thin jet several feet, I took it in my mouth sucking for all I was worth & massaging his small nipples with my thumbs, OMG when he came, I gagged on his huge load of watery spunk as there was so much of it, I must have counted at least 15 huge squirts blasting out from his cock & he was screaming & thrashing around on the bed pleading with me to stop, his screams were so loud I thought he would bring the house down. I cleaned him off whilst he laid there in a huge afterglow when he suddenly fell asleep, the peaceful looking smile on his boyish face said it all, his brother looked at me & quietly said. "Thanks mate for satisfying him, it's the best he's had in a long time & you doing him has given me a break, catch you later." I came away from there wondering why a boy would have such an insatiable lust for sex that he has to plead & beg for it, perhaps it is one of life's mysteries, maybe whatever entities control our lives put people like this into the world, it is temptation beyond belief, I could only wonder what the rest of his life is going to be like?, I would later learn the word which describes the boy's insatiable sexual desires, he was a 'satyr maniac' & I would be seeing a lot more of him. One morning I sat at the living room table doing my homework assignments when the doorbell rang, I opened it hoping for young Patrick to be at the door, OMG it was the 14 year old satyr maniac lad, that boy seriously needs help & he was begging & pleading for more sex, I thought 'Right, I'm going to give your ass such a pounding with my cock' which was now fully hard inside my underwear, I placed a large towel over my bed, stroked & sucked on his huge cock, lubed & opened out his hole & pushed my cock right the way to my balls pounding into him like a possessed rapist, I thought to myself. 'Who the hell can satisfy this kid?, he was loving every minute of it as he cooed & grunted though the fierce pounding I gave him, his cock just kept on spewing out white watery juices onto the towel & spraying thin jets out, it amazed me to think just how much was coming out of him & all the time he was in a state of euphoria when his cock started blasting out his spunk, each blast was huge & a long time between each one, his boy pussy hole kept on clenching onto my cock which now blasted a load of spunk deep inside him with a torturous orgasm making me almost scream my head off when the doorbell rang. Oh shit, I pulled my jeans up & answered the door, thank god it was Bernie, I said to him quietly. "Get your cock nice & hard then go into my bedroom, stick yours up that kid's arse & fuck the living daylights out of him, I'll tell you about him later." "Bernie looked puzzled but our friendship was of one of the strongest bonds known to mankind, we trusted each other totally & he went in & pounded his cock violently into the kid, more liquids spewed out from his cock heralding another fusillade of spunk blasting everywhere from his cock triggering Bernie to unload more spunk deep inside him. That kid was in such a huge afterglow he fell asleep on my bed with his juices wetting his clothes, now was the time to sneak next door to Patrick, this was a huge favour I wanted from him & asked him. "Pat, I really need a huge favour, can you come to the door in 5 minutes wearing your dad's mackintosh & trilby hat, stand as close to the glass front & press the doorbell like hell. I'll explain later." The doorbell was ringing like crazy, the mackintosh & hat gave Pat a good silhouette of a man, I rushed into my room frantically shook the youngster to wake him & bellowed. "For god's sake get your clothes on & hurry up out through the back door, Dad's just come home & he'll go mad if he sees you here!" The lad frantically got dressed, he quickly looked at the silhouette through the glass & quickly made his way to the back door, I bellowed out. "You'll have to go over the gardens as he rapidly ran across my back garden, Pat now stood beside me & pulled a trick I wasn't expecting, he ran across the garden shaking his fist at the lad bellowing out in a beautiful rendition of an old man's voice. "Just you wait till I get my hands on you." We went back inside laughing our heads off, I recounted the story of the lad joking about sending him packing with shit loads of spunk leaking into his underwear on his way home, I would of course spin a yarn should any neighbour ask about the lad seen shinning over their garden fences, that could be dealt with later. I took out a cold bottle of cloudy ginger beer from the fridge & poured a glass for each of us happy that the kid was now gone, I closed my homework, locked the front door, took the bikes from the garage, sent Pat for his & we went out for a nice bike ride together. Our first port of call was Princes park, there were a lot of youngsters there some of which Pat knew, I gave them each a cabby on my bike with them standing on my back footpegs holding onto my waist, this certainly was a lot of fun & a new experience for these lads with every one of them giggling on the ride, I became the most popular person in the park that day with every one of them badgering me for a second ride as well as asking where I got the footpegs from, I had something very much in demand although it wasn't an over the counter accessory, I would have to ask the instructor about having some more made which entailed one pair for geared hub bikes & another for single speed bikes, at this stage all I could do is take their names & the type of bikes they rode. After our ride we had lunch & took the tram into the city, we had a good look in Mitchell's who had loads of US army 2 man pup tents for sale at a very cheap price, some of these were the earlier pattern which was open at one end & bay ended at the other, most people bought these as a garden tent for their kids, the proprietor showed me a later pattern which had a bay end at both ends, these were more expensive but I snapped it up, we liked the way it came as 2 halves which buttoned together & would certainly protect us from bad weather, if we hiked with our kit in rucksacks we simply split the tent between us or if we rode our bikes we just simply strapped half of it onto the rack, we only had a few days of leave left & settled for trying the tent out in an overnight camp out in my back garden. I had to be back in time for my appointment with the family doctor, my parents were already registered with a practice in nearby Brighton, my appointment was for a medical check & a meeting with the doctor so he would get to know me, most of the examination was performed by a really beautiful looking nurse, with myself stripped down to my underpants she performed all the normal checks of height, weight, eyesight, hearing, listened to my chest & heart, reflexes &c &c, she kept making comments like. "You certainly are a very fit strong lad for your age, do you play any sports?" "I'm in the air force studying for an apprenticeship & yes, we play a lot of sports all the time." "I see; it looks like we won't be seeing much of you then." "Only whenever I come home on leave." "I just have one more test to perform which is the prostate exam which you may find it strange especially if no one has performed one on you before, I just need you to take your underpants down & you will feel a cold substance in your bottom." "I felt very uneasy especially as I'm now naked in front of a woman even though she's a medical professional, as requested I laid down on the examination table almost in a foetal position, I felt her applying something cold inside my bottom & a rubber gloved finger being inserted, she massaged my love button & my cock got rock hard instantly, it felt so awesome with her ministrations that within seconds those feelings rapidly built up & several huge blasts of spunk flew out from my cock without me touching it, she dipped a finger into my spunk & licked it clean uttering a sigh, I was given a cleaning cloth to wipe all the spunk off me & a tissue to place over my cock to catch any after leakage inside my underpants, she looked at me with a smirk saying. "You're a nice healthy youngster, that's between us & the doctor will see you now." I waited for my name to be called & entered the doctor's surgery, I sat down in a chair opposite him as he read through the notes, after a while he said. "I just need to have a look at your eye; apparently you've had quite recent surgery on it." "That's right; the operation was done in London & all the follow up appointments were at Gisborne Street." "Were you flown out after surgery?" "Yes I was, the flight was really good and it was about 2 months after the operation." "Tut tut tut, I see, perhaps they could have waited a bit longer before flying you over here." He checked my eye with a magnifying glass which also shone a light as he hummed a tune then said, "Absolutely first class, a very nice job indeed, your surgeon's done a wonderful job on your eye, think yourself lucky young man." He sat back down in his chair & finally said. "You're a very fit & healthy young man, well developed muscle tone, a very slow heart beat I might add, I've only ever seen that in young athletes, I'm told you're in the air force; is that right?" "Yes it is & I'm doing really well now." "They'll certainly take good care of you in there," we shook hands & bade each other goodbye & I rode home on the bike, as I entered the house mum asked me. "How did it go at the doctor's today?" "Fine, he just gave me a check up & said I was a good strong healthy boy," she then gave me a good long hug & a kiss. Patrick & I teamed up to wash, polish & vacuum dad's car, then I helped mum prepare & cook our evening meal, with our meal finished & the dishes done, Patrick & I erected the pup tent in my back garden underneath the lemon tree, laid out our groundsheets & bedding &c, at this stage Patrick was impressed with the tent & really liked it, the memories of my last camp out in my back garden in England came flooding back even though it was a rickety old tent which had a few holes in it & leaked during the night's rain, undeterred & in search of more adventure I joined the scouts. My first summer camp with the troop was on a small island on the River Thames at a place called Shiplake, the local church is on top of the hill & we were told that Tennyson was married there, we had to descend a steep hill down to the river with our trek cart loaded to the gunwales with the troop's kit which was a real challenge, the cart was so overloaded that boys kitbags & other kit kept falling off, once we reached the river it was a half mile to the island. The island had loads of trees on it & a really huge one right on the bank opposite to where we stood which must have been at least 100 feet high, the grounds on the island were obviously maintained by someone & waiting for us was our ferry which was an old ship's lifeboat which was sculled across by an older boy using a single oar, both ourselves & our kit were brought over in 2 crossings. We slept in ex US army 2 man tents without their doors on with 2 boys to each tent, most boys had ex army rain capes which were used as groundsheets, our bedding was just blankets held together by huge safety pins, water was brought to the island daily by boat from a nearby lock, we had a really good camp what with swimming, wide games, camp fires, skits, ghost stories, pioneering projects & hiking. I slept with a boy from my class at primary school & during the night was when he fondled my cock which went as hard as a nail & felt really good with feelings inside my tummy, it was during one of these sessions that a small jet of clear liquid sprayed out like a fountain & he told me I pissed myself, I kept wondering what happened to me that day & found the answer when I discovered the joys of having a wank, I had shot my first load on scout camp almost 4 years ago & now I was about to have some really amazing sex with Patrick, my friend from next door. The inside of the tent was pitch black, the only thing we could see was the luminous face of my alarm clock which sounded like a metronome inside the tent with its loud ticking, we gave each other a really good wank wiping the spunk off with our rags before I lit up the hexamine cooker to boil a mess tin of water for our nightcap of chicken soup as I wanted to show my friend how we cook & eat whilst camping, soon the aroma of burning hexamine wafted around the gardens when suddenly dad stormed out demanding to know. "What in god's name is that bloody smell?" "Dad, it's just a military solid fuel cooker, it's what we use out in the field & I wanted to show Patrick & cook some soup." "Right, first thing tomorrow morning you're going into the city & you will buy a proper camping stove!" We both had a good night's sleep & I woke up finding Patrick snuggled up to me like a lover; we struck our camp, hung our gas capes & tent onto the drying frame, showered & had breakfast. I took the tram into the city & headed straight for Mitchell's asking for a camping stove, I was shown an old 2 pint Primus stove, I looked at it saying. "Haven't you got anything smaller?" "Sorry sonny, that's all we have, Try T W Sands in Elizabeth Street by the meat market." I entered into a very fascinating old world shop festooned with all sorts of kerosene lamps, heaters, stoves &c, this shop looked as if it had been brought here in H G Well's time machine, I gazed in awe at all the items on display inside this shop when the proprietor asked me. "May I help you sonny?" "Certainly, I'm looking for a small camping stove which will fit inside the pocket of a rucksack." "I know what it is you want, we have plenty of these in stock," he brought out what looked like a light blue tea tin with a red border on the bottom, flipped up the lid, dropped the front flap & said. "This will be what you want, this one's an Optimus 80, we sell a lot of these to the Australian army." I gazed at the bright brass miniature primus pressure stove contained within the tin, this truly was a thing of beauty & a joy to hold in my hands, I had an almost hypnotic fascination for this stove which was what I truly wanted & replied. "I'll buy one off you," he brought me one out in a sealed box & placed a container & a tiny funnel beside it saying. "You will need some 'Shellite' for this stove which is the proper fuel and you must be aware that this is a gasoline stove." "I doubt if I will make any mistakes with it, I'm in the air force & have already been on loads of bush camps." He rang up the till & I left the shop in a very happy frame of mind, I now had a good tent, a decent stove, groundsheet, bed roll, mess tins, mug, cutlery &c &c, I was well kitted out for a sleepover & camp out with whoever I chose to be with in my portable den of iniquity, the promise of great camp outs & brilliant sex lay ahead & having seen the rest of the flight discard their ration pack leftovers I made a mental note to collect them all enabling me to feed some to my guests, all too soon my leave was over & I returned on the train to Wagga Wagga with my bike for more trade training, bench fitting exercises, sports, PT, military training, bush camps & sex. The weekend was one of the highlights of our apprenticeship course, air experience flights, this is what we've all dreamed about & now it was happening, we were all going to be taken up in DeHavilland Tiger Moth biplanes, the weather was cool with high clouds & a gentle breeze blowing, we could see the bright orange disc of the sun silhouetted in the clouds, we were all in high spirits especially having been told that it's a perfect day for flying. We were all suited up in flying suits, hat & gloves having been warned that it was cold up there, I was sat in the cockpit in front of the pilot who made sure I was strapped in, the aircraft taxied from the flight line to the runway & went into its take off roll, the Gypsy Major engine screamed as the aircraft gently accelerated down the runway & after a short roll rose into the air like a fly, as it climbed gently the slipstream through the wires & struts made a humming noise, the whole aircraft seemed to flex as it flew through some bumps, we turned in a south easterly direction which will take us over the town which we flew over at 2,000 feet, I recognized some of the buildings in the town, the swimming pool, the railway station with the railway lines going to the horizon, we flew to the right of the Sturt highway seeing a number of semi trailer trucks traveling in both directions. These trucks were the true knights of the road transporting the nation's goods & their name plates sounded like royalty, names like Kenworth, White, Mack, Peterbilt & a whole host of others, every one of them powered by a huge diesel engine, every prime mover capable of hauling the huge loads required by their operators & driving the long distances required for interstate deliveries, their drivers all family men holding endorsed licences as testament to their professional driving skills, some drivers are accompanied by a jockey, usually a teenage lad whose job is to navigate the vehicle through cities, prioritize the order of deliveries to the route, assist with loading & unloading &c, it is these youths who are the drivers of the future. All too soon the pilot throttled the engine back taking the aircraft into a slow descent, I saw the airfield in the distance looming ever larger until we joined the circuit & banked hard over for the final turn & landing on the runway to finally taxi to the flight line & park with the engine stopped & disembarking from the aircraft. I was so exhilarated by the flight I was on a high for the rest of the day, it was just fantastic, it had to be a lot better than a roller coaster ride, it was even miles better than the flight in the Lockheed Super Constellation, this really was true flying, half a century had passed since the Wright brothers & now the jet age was here albeit tainted by the DeHavilland Comet crashes & yet in the USA, Tex Johnson test flew the Boeing 367-80 (dash 80) performing a barrel roll in flight, an exhausting test programme & FAA Certiication would see the Boeing 707 jet airliner coming into service 5 years later & shrinking the world, within a few years these grand propeller driven airliners would be consigned to the history books, even though I was still a boy at 15 years of age I had now become a part of that world. To be continued.