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Volume 22 Number 3 ■HI 111 111 ■ VOLUME 22 ■ii ■ NUMBER 3 m i m 'aviationI I If ERITAfiE WM IB HE JOURNAL OF THE 11 F AUSTRALIA ■ AVIATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY ■' a III 1 55111 ;;5:5 i »i»d by AustraUa Post bUc<ittonNo.VBai514 . On this page we invite readers to ask questions for vital answers you may have been seeking for years to complete research on a particular subject. The INFORMATION answers may have eluded you but another reader may have it at home collecting dust. If you don’t ask, he doesn’t know you require it. ECHO Each issue we intend publishing the replies so that all readers benefit along with the one who first asked the question. Question 19 UNUSUAL WIRRAWAY Can any reader provide details of the reason for the canopy modifications on the Wirraway in the photo opposite? Serial appears to beA20-100, but the last ■■ digit is uncertain. It carries 23 Sqn’s code T’ on the B fuselage, and the name ‘The Secret Weapon'on the modified canopy. Peter Malone ■ II ■ Question 20 ■ SPITFIRE CRASH ii ■ On 1 December 1942, a Spitfire Vc, A58-75 (BS187), on initialtestfiightfrom 1 A.D. Laverton, crashed near Point Cook killing the pilot Wing Commander J.C. Stevenson. I am anxious to contact anyone who was stationed at Point Cook at iiiiii the time and may have witnessed this accident. ■ B. Cronin Question 21 MELROSE’S AIRCRAFT ‘Kalgoorlie’ aeroplane (AHSA Journal Vol 21, No. AtleastS examples of the Whippet were constructed 1 page 13.) Presumably this is the same person as with C/Ns AU.l to AU.5. The last two are identified Can anyone provide information on the colour the Lieutenant A.E. Geere of No. 1 Squadron as being shipped to New Zealand where one was schemes carried by two of the aircraft flown by C.J. Australian Flying Corps, pictured on page 14 of registeredasZK-ACR. One of these two, if not both, Melrose? The aircraft are the D.H.80 Puss Moth ‘High Adventure' by A.H. Cobby (1981 reprint came to Australia in the late twenties with a circus, that he flew in the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race, by Kookaburra). but nothing further is known at present. That one and the Heston Phoenix in which he fatally example “vanished up into Footscray somewhere” crashed. Bob Fripp A clue is provided in the autobiographies of Sir may well be true - J. J. Smith, the last owner of Avro Lawrence Wackett and Sir Richard Williams, who 534 Baby VH-UCQ was for many years rumoured both refer to their early days in Egypt when No. 1 Question 22 to hold a Whippet in storage with the Baby, and he Sqn AFC was disbanded for a time and the was a Footscray butcher. MAURICE FARMAN SHORTHORN Australians were attached to various RFC units. It seems likely that Geere, because of his background. Question 7 Can anyone substantiate the date on which the would have gone to some instructional unit, Maurice Farman Shorthorn VH-UBC was sold to A USTRALIAN HALIFAXES possibly in England. Gary Sunderland. Frank Tallman of the U.S.A.? How many Half axes came to Australia? It has been established that M.F. Shorthorn . ,.7011717t> d ^r\ 17 AT>1 117T» VH-UCW was C/N 1326 and ex RFC A942 and AJN IS W liKb 1 U tl/AKLlliK Captain Geoffrey Wikner writes: VH-UBC was C/N 1228 but what was the RFC serial number? Ken Molson, Canada QUESTIONS ‘As I should imagine, I was the first private owner of a four-engined bomber, a Halifax, G-AGXA, and Question 23 Question 8 also made the first private flight from England to FOREIGN 737s IN AUSTRALIA AUSTIN WHIPPETS Australia after World War II. The aircraft was NR169,T, of 466 Sqn, an Australian squadron, and The photo opposite shows Air New Zealand Boeing How many Austin Whippets came to Australia, had flown on fifty one raids. 737, ZK-NAR, taxi-ing to the Hobart terminal where did they come from and what were their after arriving to inaugurate the airline's weekly fates? Continued on page 83 Christchurch-Hobart service on 8 January 1983. It is not often that there is anything that we in Tasmania can tell you about aviation matters so it's nice to have this opportunity. Has an Air New Zealand 737 been to Australia previously or for that matter has any other foreign carrier flown the type into this country? Rod Hayes I: Question 24 EX FINNAIR Ju-52s Can anyone supply photographs of the ex Finnair Ju-52s (VH-BUU and VH-BUV) that served in New Guinea in the 1950's. Required for a book celebrating Finnair's 60th birthday. Jukka Kauppinen, U.S.A. Question 25 ALBERT GEERE Has anyone details of the military service and subsequent history of Albert Edward Geere? Geere's early history is described in my article on the 62 Aviation Heritage Vol 22 No. 3 THE JOURNAL OF THE AVIATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA ^/yiATION IIIERITAGE VOLUME 22, NUMBER 3 AHSA AND EDITORIAL ADDRESS contents P.O. Box 117, Ashburton, Vic., 3147 64 WENTWORTH AIRSHOW 1960 by John Hopton In this, the first of a new series covering airshows of years gone by, we visit W entworth through the aid of J ohn Hopton’s camera, and recall the varied and interesting aircraft participating, many alas no longer with us. EDITOR 70 THE COFFEE ROYAL AFFAIR by Keith Hatfield Peter Malone We conclude Keith Hatfield’s interesting account of the circumstances surrounding the loss of the EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Southern Cross. David Anderson Tony Self 71 TAA’S AIRBUS Bob Veitch Joe Vella A brief resume of TAA’s latest aquisition, with a double page spread of drawings by Joe Vella. EDITOR’S ASSISTANT 75 I HAD READ ABOUT QANTAS.........Greg Banfield Jan Drobik Another of Greg Banfield’s excellent interviews, this time with Captain Russell Tapp who recalls his early days in the RFC and then his career with Qantas from 1928 to 1958. editorial This is the last issue of Aviation Heritage (nee the Journal of the AHSA) that will carry my name as Editor. The AHSA Committee has requested my resignation and I have agreed to conform with their wishes. As outlined in Volume 21 Number 2, a Committee of four has been formed to edit and produce Aviation Membership is for one full calendar year and Heritage. They have already produced two issues, Vol. 21 No. 2 and Vol. 22 No. 2, and I believe the standard includes both Journal and AHSA News. achieved by these issues augers well for the future. I wish them every success. Annual Membership fees of $15.00 (Australian Currency) will be due for renewal during During my period as Editor the history of the Journal has had many ups and downs. On the debit side we have January each year. had typesetting and printing problems, financial restrictions and, at times, a chronic lack of material. On the credit side are the small, but much appreciated, group of authors and contributors who have given freely of INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS - All their time to help further the aims of the Society. Personally, I have always gained a good deal of satisfaction manuscripts for publication in the Journal through my small part in enabling Australian aviation history to be recorded, and in trying to maintain the should be typed or clearly handwritten on one standards set by my predecessors. I regard the Tiger Moth Special my high point as Editor and, obviously, side of each sheet only, and must be double my enforced resignation as the nadir. spaced. Photographs should where possible have a subject width of at least 5” (12.7 c.m.) During my period as Editor, a number of people have contributed greatly to the success of the Journal, none or 8” (20 c.m.). This is not essential, but is more so than Fred Harris. Fred did all the hard work in the change-over to the new format iruVolumes 17 and preferable, and photos of all shapes and sizes 18, and is the architect of the Journal (sorry. Aviation Heritage) as we know it now. Another who has assisted will be accepted. me greatly in recent years has been Jan Drobik who has contributed with proof reading, photography, layout suggestions, and as a critical sounding board for my ideas. Geoff Goodall virtually single-handedly kept the Where possible we prefer negatives, even if Journal supplied with articles over a very lean-three-year period, and without John Hopton and Frank Smith prints are also sent. This greatly simplifies the making available their extensive photo files the Journal would lack much of its interest. A special thanks is Editor’s job. All negatives will be returned also due to Mel Davis whose incredible research enabled the Tiger Moth issue to be produced. and prints will be returned if so marked. If you do not want prints cut, mark “Do not crop”. If Over the years a small, but talented, group of authors and contributors has gradually built up, and although we you are thinking of preparing an article, please may not always have seen eye-to-eye on all matters, I have always appreciated their efforts. My thanks to contact the Editor at the above address for David Anderson, Mike Austin, Kevin Baff, Ben Dannecker, Nigel Daw, David Eyre, Peter Gates, Ron further advice, and so we can plan ahead. All Gibson, ‘Mac’ Job, Clive Lynch, Roger McDonald, Greg Meggs, Keith Meggs, Neville Parnell, Barry work on this Journal is voluntary and no pay­ Pattison, Mervyn Prime, Tony Self Gary Sunderland, Bob Veitch, Joe Vella, David Vincent, Harry ment can be made for published material.
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