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Previously
captioned as an unknown engineer performing an engine change in Katherine,
we now know that it is Abe Baker at Alice Springs in 1967. Abe recalls
(in October 2009) that his Darwin-based Hudson flew down to Alice Springs
to meet up with a Giles-based Hudson which was having a problem with
its camera fogging up. The camera from the Giles aircraft was successfully
test-flown in the Darwin aircraft but the port engine failed on the
test flight. The camera was refitted to the other Hudson which returned
to Giles. As a replacement engine was going to take weeks to arrive
by rail from Sydney, the crew of the Darwin Hudson returned to Sydney.
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