On a Wing and a Prayer – Vimy to Australia 1919-2019
Reading time: 4 minutes On this day 100 years ago, G-EAOU, a converted World War I...
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Tag: Aviation
Vickers’ First Aeroplane and the Mawson Expedition
Reading time: 31 minutes Believed to be the first Vickers-Pelterie REP-type tractor monoplane...
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Frank Cotton and the Invention of the Australian G-Suit
Reading time: 9 minutes
The best-known wartime innovations are the largest, loudest, and flashiest, from humble handguns to the tank. But war has also prompted the invention of fascinating, and less destructive, devices designed not to harm life, but to protect it. One of these was the anti-gravity suit, or g-suit.
MUSEUM REVIEW – RAAF Amberley Aviation Heritage Centre
Reading time: 12 minutes With the unfortunate cancellation of the 2022 Air Tattoo at RAAF Base...
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The War in the Skies: How The First World War Changed Aviation
Reading time: 6 minutes
When the first world war broke out in 1914, flying was still in its infancy. It had been eleven years since the Wright brothers had taken to the skies in the first motorised flight. Very little had been done in advancing aviation since then. In the four years of war, however, the world saw aviation take major leaps forward, so much so that these advancements are still at the core of flying today.
Millicent Bryant, the first Australian woman to get a pilot’s licence
Before the glamorous flyers of the 1930s like Amelia Earhart, “Chubby” Miller and Nancy...
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War Flying by a Pilot – Audiobook
Written in training and in active duty during World War 1, published in 1917. This volume was assembled to provide useful information for young men who might like to become pilots for the Royal Flying Corps. A mixture of conversational letters, poems, and descriptions of flying.
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