BOZ might have been a pretty rough aircraft back in the 1960s, but I knew Eric Greathead preferred it to the Hawker Sea Fury which he called a beast. Bankstown tended to clear the circuit of students whenever Eric or Brian Wetless were about the take one of the two mustangs up.
On probably his first trip to Darwin in BOZ, (or maybe sister Mustang BOY), Eric “discovered” the Darwin stubbie, an 80 oz (2.27 litre) bottle of NT Draught. He transferred spares from one wing gun locker to the other, thus enabling loading of half a dozen of these liquid containers, presumably to comply with carrying the emergency rations one was meant to have on flights over the Designated Remote Areas of Australia.
Eric had said these long flights at 200Kt were boring, however when he became “uncertain of his position” (lost) over the vastness of central Australia, it gained his full attention.
Resolving this navigational abnormality and landing safely, he discovered the transfer of metal spares into one wing locker has caused the compass to miss-read by close to 30 degrees.