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Flying boats

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Rose Bay Airport
Empire Air Mail Scheme
Taylor, P Gordon
Ansett advertisement for Hayman Island 'swift flying boats can whisk you there in a matter of hours' March 1952
Comfort in overseas air travel, in an Empire flying boat 1938
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
Gateway to the world - Rose Bay flying boat base 1939
Imperial Airways inflight menu for the RMA Coorong flying between Brisbane and Sydney 12 July 1938
Lord Huntingfield opens flying boat service, Rose Bay 4 August 1938
Meal service, Flying Boat between Auckland and Sydney, 1950s
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
Seaplane on the water at Rose Bay c1930
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

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Flying boats

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.

Empire Air Mail Scheme

British Air Ministry scheme to regain leadership of world aviation by carrying all first class mail to India, South Africa and Australia by flying boat. The first service to Australia began in 1938 but was uneconomic and overwhelmed with the public response. The scheme closed with the outbreak of war.

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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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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)

Comfort in overseas air travel, in an Empire flying boat 1938

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Contributed By
National Library of Australia
[The Home, Vol. 19 No. 8 (1 August 1938), p29 via Trove]

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]

Gateway to the world - Rose Bay flying boat base 1939

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Contributed By
Qantas Heritage Collection
[Image 26, Design Excellence]

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]

Lord Huntingfield opens flying boat service, Rose Bay 4 August 1938

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From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a1896050 / PX*D 294, 48]
(Vol.8 Early Days of Qantas & flying boat service) (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]

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
Sam Hood
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
Sam Hood
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a169021 / PXE 789 (v.6), 28]
(Mitchell Library)

Seaplane on the water at Rose Bay c1930

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Image courtesy of the
State Library of Victoria
[H99.206/1763]
(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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