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Lockheed L-188 Electra (VH-RMB) - Lockheed Electra L188 VH-RMB of Ansett Air Freight at Melbourne Airport in 1981.
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Lockheed L-188 Electra (VH-RMB)

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Lockheed Electra L188 VH-RMB of Ansett Air Freight at Melbourne Airport in 1981.

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CHRIS ROBEY
Note the nocturnal wombat below the cockpit side windows. The L188 crews,including a flight engineer, only ever flew at night in the 1980's, by which decade the AN Electra fleet had been converted to cargo configuration. Nightime airport curfews were not a problem with four whispering Allisons...
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