My dad got me up at 5.00am one morning to see Bluebird run between Crawley and the old brewery. Glassy water with a slight breeze but couldn’t quite get it up to full speed. Still worth the look though.
– Peter Kelsall on a Lost Perth Facebook post showing photos of the Bluebird.
I saw [Bluebird] there too. I am thinking it may have been the Ampol Service Station in front of Ampol’s offices in a lovely old house (Strawberry Hill or Farm). Later I worked there.
– Lyn Hosking on a Lost Perth Facebook post showing photos of the Bluebird.
I remember seeing [Bluebird] parked at a service station close to where the RAAF Association Spitfire used to be in Adelaide Terrace. I would have been only 8 but I recall it as clear as a bell.
– Gordon Branch on a Lost Perth Facebook post showing photos of the Bluebird.
My 96 yo father Eric Page was there every morning to catch the action of Bluebird and met Donald. – Linley Filmer
A British TV journalist asked “Are you ever afraid, Donald?” to which he replied “Of course I’m afraid every time I get into the Bluebird. Courage is not being fearless. Courage is overcoming and smashing through fear.”
My dad (John Leathard) remembers seeing the training runs and hearing the roar of the Bluebird from our family farm over many days back then. The farm adjoined Lake Dumbleyung. Nice part of our own family story too. – Dianne Fraser
