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Aeroplanes

Subject

Rose Bay Airport

Avro 504K

Beaufort bomber

Codock

Lady Southern Cross

Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine

Southern Cross aircraft

Arrival of Ross and Keith Smith at Mascot 14 February 1920

Australian Aircraft & Engineering Co Ltd

Australian Women's Flying Club

Central Flying School

Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation

Cotton, Frank Stanley

De Pinedo, Francesco

Hammond, Joseph

Hargrave, Lawrence

Hart, William (Billy)

Hinkler, Bert

Hinks, Leslie

Hurst, Eric Alfred

Smith, Charles Kingsford

Smith, Keith Macpherson

Smith, Ross Macpherson

Taylor, P Gordon

Terry, Florence (Bobby)

Ulm, Charles

Wackett, Lawrence James

Walton, Nancy Bird

Warneford, Jack

Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation factory

'Australia's World Beaters' montage including Bobby Pearce c1930s

Ansett advertisement for Hayman Island 'swift flying boats can whisk you there in a matter of hours' March 1952

Arrival of Vickers Vimy at Mascot Aerodrome 14 Feburary 1920

Aviation week at Rosehill Racecourse ... the great Houdini to give a series of public flights 1910

Construction of aeroplane hangar, Rose Bay, for flying boats June 1939

Empire Class Flying Boats carried mail and passengers in style from Sydney to London in 1938-1939

Faith in Australia, Murawai, New Zealand 1934

Finally! - Permission to land at the third airport! 1996

Gateway to the world - Rose Bay flying boat base 1939

Helen Wood, Miss Australia 1957, farewelled by Māori dancers at Mascot, 10 March 1958

Imperial Airways inflight menu for the RMA Coorong flying between Brisbane and Sydney 12 July 1938

John McCormack and unidentified woman assembling aircraft cowling in Wunderlich factory, Redfern 1943

KLM Douglas 'Uiver' PH-AJU of Parmentier and Moll, Mascot 1934

Landing of Ross Smith's Vickers Vimy at Mascot 14 Feburary 1920

Leaving Mascot 16 May 1931

Meal service, Flying Boat between Auckland and Sydney, 1950s

Miss Australia 1957 Helen Wood farewelled at Mascot, March 1958

Mr WE Hart, the first Australian aviator in his biplane c1911

Nigel Love in the cockpit of a Curtiss Jenny biplane, Richmond 1916

Qantas Empire Class fllying boat Carpentaria at anchor Rose Bay Sydney c1940

Qantas flying boat Coolangatta at the new Rose Bay Flying Base, 20 June 1936

R Rogers and LA Yancey land Consolidated Model 28 Guba NC777after Port Moresby-Sydney flight, 1750 miles in 11.5 hrs with 3 crew and 4 passengers, 4.45 PM, 23 November 1938

Robinson's aeroplane map of Sydney 1922

Seaplane on the water at Rose Bay c1930

Senator Cameron and Minister for Air, Mr Drakeford at a NSW Bristol Beaufort torpedo bomber factory 1 February 1943

Short Empire Flying Boat Cooee at Rose Bay 5 July 1939

Spacious cabins on board Qantas flying boats 1938

Tender boat delivers passenger to flying boat Rose Bay 1938

Women pilots Florence (Bobby) Terry, Phyllis R Arnott and Freda Deaton, who took part in Amy Johnson's welcome to Sydney, May 1930

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Aeroplanes

Rose Bay Airport

Rose Bay Airport, on Sydney Harbour, was Sydney's first international airport for sea boats. Opening in 1937, Rose Bay Airport catered to the Empire Flying Boat and Air Mail Service, World War Two Catalina flying boats and Qantas and Ansett services until 1974 when services to Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island ended. In 2014, the Airport is used by a charter company.

Avro 504K

World War I biplane aircraft designed by British company AV Roe.

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Beaufort bomber

Twin-engined bomber constructed in Australia between 1939 and 1944.

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Codock

Twin-engined monoplane designed and built by the Cockatoo Island Dockyard and Engineering Company in 1933 for Sir Charles Kingsford Smith.

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Lady Southern Cross

Lockheed Altair monoplane built for Charles Kingsford Smith in 1934 and in which he made the first eastward trans-Pacific flight from Australia to the United States.

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Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine

Air-cooled piston engine developed in 1930s mainly for fighter planes.

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Southern Cross aircraft

Fokker FV11b/3M trimotor monoplane flown by Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm, Harry Lyon & James Warner in the first trans-Pacific flight, from the United States of America to Australia, in 1928. It is now on display in Brisbane Airport.

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Arrival of Ross and Keith Smith at Mascot 14 February 1920

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Arrival in Sydney of Ross and Keith Smith, who had flown from London to Darwin at the end of 1919 in a Vickers Vimy biplane, the first plane to do so in under 30 days. Due to mechanical difficulties they did not arrive in Sydney until 14 February 1920.

Australian Aircraft & Engineering Co Ltd

Aircraft manufacturing company which began flying operation from a paddock leased at Mascot. It went bankrupt while assembling Avro 504K aircraft for the Royal Australian Air Force.

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Australian Women's Flying Club

Association of women aviators formed to train women in flying and to support any future war effort, which trained many future members of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force.

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Central Flying School

RAAF flight instruction facility which moved to Camden briefly during World War II before vacating for the United States Airforce and re-establishing in first Tamworth and then Parkes.

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Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation

Aircraft manufacturer established in 1936 which produced military aircraft and engines.

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Cotton, Frank Stanley

Lecturer in physiology who specialised in the study of the effects of physical strain on the human body. He invented the aerodynamic anti-gravity suit, the 'Cotton aerodynamic anti-G flying suit' during World War II, which prevented pilots from blacking out at high speed. With Forbes Carlile, he also established the first sports science laboratory in Australia.

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De Pinedo, Francesco

Italian aviator who flew a sea-plane from Rome to Australia in 1925.

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Hammond, Joseph

New Zealand aviator who was amongst the first to use a paddock at Mascot as an airfield.

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Hargrave, Lawrence

Aeronautical pioneer and inventor of the compressed air engine and the box kite, who strongly opposed the patent system which he believed held back scientific research.

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Hart, William (Billy)

The first airman to qualify as a pilot in Australia in 1911, who made several historic flights before he was injured in an accident. He later resumed his career as a dentist.

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Hinkler, Bert

Aviator who flew in Europe during World War I and was a pioneer in aviation in the 1920s making the first solo flight to Australia in 1928. He was killed on his second attempt in 1933 crossing the Appenines in Italy.

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Hinks, Leslie

Businessman and father of Harold Hinks, who died after being electrocuted in the garden of Cyril and Violet McKenzie in Greenwich. Flying home from Kalgoorlie for the boy's funeral in the 'Miss Southern Cross', he was killed when the plane crashed near Yerranderie in New South Wales.

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Hurst, Eric Alfred

Pilot who crashed and died in Tamarama Bay in 1946.

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Smith, Charles Kingsford

Aviator who served in World War I and became a pioneer of the aviation industry and air transport in Australia before disappearing on a record breaking flight from England.

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Smith, Keith Macpherson

Aviator who was one of the first people to fly from England to Australia.

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Smith, Ross Macpherson

Aviator who with his brother, Keith Macpherson Smith, became the first pilots to fly from England to Australia in 1919.

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Taylor, P Gordon

Aviator and writer who flew with Kingsford Smith and published 8 books about flying.

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Terry, Florence (Bobby)

Pioneer aviator, and one of the first women to own and pilot her own plane. One of the first female commercial pilots in Australia and the first to hold a license for seaplanes, she began flying in 1928. She was one of the six women pilots, with Phyllis Arnott, Margaret Skelton, Evelyn Follett and Alice Upfold and Freda Deaton, to fly in formation and escort Amy Johnson into Sydney in June 1930, and with Nancy Bird she was one of the few Australian members of The 99. She was one of the founding members of the Australian Women Pilots Association in 1950. Born in Queensland in 1890, she married grazier JE Terry in Sydney in 1920. After his death in 1934 she married 'the flying solicitor' Monte Fowler in 1938.

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Ulm, Charles

Visionary and entrepreneurial aviator who arranged the finances and administration of his flights with Kingsford Smith and undertook many hazardous journeys attempting to establish commercial flights across the Pacific before disappearing on a flight to Hawaii.

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Wackett, Lawrence James

Aeronautical engineer whose preferences shaped the construction of planes at Cockatoo Island and the setup of the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation.

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Walton, Nancy Bird

Pioneering aviator.

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Warneford, Jack

Airman in World War I who helped establish Mascot as a centre of aviation.

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Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation factory

Aircraft manufacturing factory established at Lidcombe during World War II.

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'Australia's World Beaters' montage including Bobby Pearce c1930s

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[hood_08028 / Home and Away 8028]

Ansett advertisement for Hayman Island 'swift flying boats can whisk you there in a matter of hours' March 1952

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Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[news-article45646560 via Trove]

(The Australian Women's Weekly, 19 March 1952, p 24)

Arrival of Vickers Vimy at Mascot Aerodrome 14 Feburary 1920

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a928596 / SPF/Aeronautics - Smith, Sir Ross & Sir Keith, 1920]

(Mitchell Library)

Aviation week at Rosehill Racecourse ... the great Houdini to give a series of public flights 1910

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Image courtesy of the

State Library of Victoria

[ALMA POSTERS 93.2/70]

(Alma Conjuring Collection)

Construction of aeroplane hangar, Rose Bay, for flying boats June 1939

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[hood_19773 / Home and Away 19773]

(Mitchell Library)

Empire Class Flying Boats carried mail and passengers in style from Sydney to London in 1938-1939

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Contributed By

Qantas Heritage Collection

[Image 3, Qantas advertising]

Faith in Australia, Murawai, New Zealand 1934

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By

Charles Thomas Phillippe Ulm

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a1269012 / Pic.Acc.5116, 65]

Finally! - Permission to land at the third airport! 1996

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By

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-vn3525274]

Gateway to the world - Rose Bay flying boat base 1939

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Contributed By

Qantas Heritage Collection

[Image 26, Design Excellence]

Helen Wood, Miss Australia 1957, farewelled by Māori dancers at Mascot, 10 March 1958

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[d7_05092 / APA 05092]

(Mitchell Library)

Imperial Airways inflight menu for the RMA Coorong flying between Brisbane and Sydney 12 July 1938

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Contributed By

Qantas Heritage Collection

[Image 5, Food and Wine]

John McCormack and unidentified woman assembling aircraft cowling in Wunderlich factory, Redfern 1943

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By

Wunderlich Limited

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a727004 / PXA 355, 803]

(Mitchell Library)

KLM Douglas 'Uiver' PH-AJU of Parmentier and Moll, Mascot 1934

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a1402001 / ON 204 Box 35, 42-46]

Landing of Ross Smith's Vickers Vimy at Mascot 14 Feburary 1920

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[bcp_01588 / BCP 01588]

(Mitchell Library)

Leaving Mascot 16 May 1931

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By

Margaret Gifford

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a9727024 / PXE 1598 / Box 7]

(Album 06: Photographs of the Allen family, 1931) (Mitchell Library)

Meal service, Flying Boat between Auckland and Sydney, 1950s

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Contributed By

Qantas Heritage Collection

[Image 1, Food and Wine]

Miss Australia 1957 Helen Wood farewelled at Mascot, March 1958

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Mitchell Library)

Mr WE Hart, the first Australian aviator in his biplane c1911

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By

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-vn3722795]

(Part of EA Crome collection of photographs on aviation)

Nigel Love in the cockpit of a Curtiss Jenny biplane, Richmond 1916

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By

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[PIC/13952/89 LOC Album 1147]

Qantas Empire Class fllying boat Carpentaria at anchor Rose Bay Sydney c1940

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Contributed By

Qantas Heritage Collection

[Image 20, Forward Thinking]

Qantas flying boat Coolangatta at the new Rose Bay Flying Base, 20 June 1936

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a169024 / PXE 789 (v.6), 33]

(Mitchell Library)

R Rogers and LA Yancey land Consolidated Model 28 Guba NC777after Port Moresby-Sydney flight, 1750 miles in 11.5 hrs with 3 crew ...

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a169021 / PXE 789 (v.6), 28]

(Mitchell Library)

Robinson's aeroplane map of Sydney 1922

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By

HEC Robinson Pty Ltd

Contributed By

Library of Congress

[G8964.S9 1909 .H4]

Seaplane on the water at Rose Bay c1930

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Image courtesy of the

State Library of Victoria

(Argus Newspaper Collection of Photographs)

Senator Cameron and Minister for Air, Mr Drakeford at a NSW Bristol Beaufort torpedo bomber factory 1 February 1943

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Image courtesy of the

State Library of Victoria

(Argus Newspaper Collection of Photographs)

Short Empire Flying Boat Cooee at Rose Bay 5 July 1939

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[ON 388/Box 035/Item 119 ]

(Mitchell Library, Courtesy ACP Magazines Ltd)

Spacious cabins on board Qantas flying boats 1938

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Contributed By

Qantas Heritage Collection

[Image 19, Design Excellence]

Tender boat delivers passenger to flying boat Rose Bay 1938

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Contributed By

Qantas Heritage Collection

[Image 17, Forward thinking]

...

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[PXE 789 (v.20), 126]

(Mitchell Library)

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