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Ahsa Newsletter A.H.S.A. NEWSLETTER Published by the Aviation Historical Society of Australia Inc. A0033653P, ARBN 092-671-773 Volume 26 Number 3, September 2010 Print Post approved 318780/00033 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.ahsa.org.au Editor: NEIL FOLLETT Bob Wills Memorial Plaque. At a recent committee July 2010. This was our first theme night where we meeting it was decided to award a plaque to the memory concentrated on the Vickers Viscount and the Lockheed of the late Bob Wills. It will be awarded annually to the Electra types. best written and researched article by an AHSA member and published in Aviation Heritage for that year. John Bibo introduced the first speaker Bob Bitcon who described the Viscount and Electra Aircraft operated by We have asked experienced aviation journalist, Mac Job Ansett Airlines. John then gave the reasons as to why to adjudicate and the inaugural award will be made for they preferred the DC-6B over the Viscount namely eco¬ 2009. The recipient will be announced in the December nomics of operation and the fact that the DC-6B had a Newsletter redundant structure. However they had overlooked the appeal of the turbo-props. Aviation Heritage to go digital. The AHSA has undertaken to make available all previ¬ Ken Bond, ex Supervisor of Overhaul, Ansett, gave an ously published Aviation Heritage journals and newslet¬ interesting description of the work involved in changing ters in a digital form. In the first instance we will be scan¬ the lower spar booms in the Viscount and the uplifting of ning issues going back to 1959 to ensure that these is¬ the thrust line of the Electra engines. sues are preserved for the future use of members and researchers. Ultimately, we hope that we will be able Peter Ralph ex Advertising Manager TAA described his provide the copy in a form that is fully searchable on the difficult task in promoting the Viscount following the train¬ text, a feature that will make the digital copy of most use ing accident to the first aircraft at Mangalore. in research. Mac Job gave the findings of the loss of the Viscount in a This is a substantial undertaking and if any members violent storm over Botany Bay. have any experience in creating this sort of archive or are willing to assist in converting earlier journals to digital Alan Patching described the cause of the early fatigue form, please contact the archive sub-committee conve¬ failure of the Viscount main spar at Port Headland - an nor, Tony Clark on (03) 9817 5773 or incorrectly fitted bush in a bolt hole. He then described [email protected] how the overheated spar boom had been found at the crash site at Winton. Melbourne meetings. May 2010. Our speaker this meeting was AHSA Presi¬ Leigh Ryan - Interiors Engineer QANTAS displayed dent Keith Meggs. Keith spoke about the early history of drawings of external markings for Viscounts and to the CAC and his employment there as a young lad straight delight of members said that documentation was avail¬ from school. able for all aircraft operated by TAA Great interest was generated and by the questions posed from the floor, it was a most interesting and infor¬ mative evening. Special Offer. Aviation Heritage. Volume 26 Nos 1-4. A limited num¬ ber of the complete set of Volume 26 is available at $15- 00 including postage within Australia. No.1. Is entirely devoted to John Duigan. No.2. Main article is on Harry Hawker. No.3. Owen Cathcart-Jones, N.T. Aerial Medical Service. No. 4 Almost entirely devoted to Guinea Airways. Keith pointing to one of CAC s products - the Wackett Send your order, with payment to AHSA, P.O. Box 461, Trainer. Lilydale, Vic. 3140. 1 The Duigan centenary by John McCulloch The AHSA shared a tent with the Australian Gliding Mu¬ seum and the AARG from Moorabbin free of charge cour¬ On Friday 16 July, a commemoration ceremony to mark tesy of both the Centenary Committee and the Gliding the centenary of the first flight of an Australian designed Museum. Despite the relatively small number of visitors, and built aircraft was held at the site of the Duigan monu¬ the AHSA stall did a roaring trade with takings of over ment on the Lancefield - Mia Mia Road. $900 on the Saturday. The Centenary of Flight issue of Aviation Heritage proved particularly popular with nearly The Governor of Victoria Prof David de Kretser AC, who is 30 copies being sold. also a patron of the Duigan Centenary, addressed a small but enthusiastic crowd of locals and aviation enthusiasts. The AARG also profited from the sale of a CD-ROM of His speech covered a broad outline of aviation history with over 200 photos from the Duigan archive. In a separate particular reference to Australia s contributions in both stall first time author David Crotty’s Duigan biography A technical innovations and practical demonstrations of the Flying Life was also a hit. He had sold out of his antici¬ feasibility of aviation as a viable means of travel. pated weekend’s supply by Friday evening and required extra copies from Melbourne to satisfy Saturday patrons. He was followed by an entertaining ramble through Dui¬ gan family history by John Duigan, son of Reg Duigan and Thanks to The Gliding Museum, Tony Clark, Ken Riches, nephew of the man he referred to as Jack . He described Dion Makowski, Anne West, and Keith Meggs for their their attempts to master the art of flying by using a teth¬ assistance over the two days ered glider and ultimately the fitting of a Tilley engine in Australia’s first indigenous powered aircraft. Member s Research Requests. From Neil Follett. For my continuing series on Oswald Watt Medal recipients I am desperately seeking any pho¬ tos to do with Harold Brownlow (Mickey) Martin. He joined the RAF when WW2 broke out, flew on the Dam Busters raids and retired from the RAF as an Air Marshal in 1974. Any info to: [email protected] Hillson Praga. I am also seeking any photos of Hillson Praga’s VH-UVP, VH-UXR,and VH-UXQ. I have some but they are not of good quality. - Neil Follett. flf;I -: • X Plane propeller found. An item found in a 1948 newspa¬ per reports a four-blade plane propeller was found washed up on the beach at Dromana (Victoria). It bore the marking IRG T295052/23609. The IRG may meant to be DRG. If any of our more mature members (which is almost all of The Duigan replica aircraft. us) recognizes the code could they let the editor know.. A plaque to mark the centenary was unveiled before most The 7 E.F.T.S. Project. Tasmania’s only RAAF flying of the crowd left for Mia Mia Oval where a replica Duigan base was established at the site of the current site of biplane constructed by Terry Egan was on display. It had Launceston Airport on 29th August 1940, and No. 7 Ele¬ been hoped to fly the aircraft a short distance to recreate mentary Flying Training School commenced training in John Duigan’s 7 metre hop of a century ago, but the en¬ September of that year. By the time training ended in late gine could not be started. A few lucky citizens also made 1944, over 1800 pilot trainees had passed through the their way to the Mia Mia Hall for a lunch provided by the base as part of the Empire Air Training Scheme before the Centenary Committee. Friday’s events culminated in a base was disbanded on 31st August 1945. Black-tie dinner at a property close to Spring Plains. The objective of the project is to establish a dedicated In view of the Defries/Houdini controversy over what con¬ memorial, history depositary and display at the Evandale stitutes flight , it may be surprising to some that the cen¬ Community Centre. tenary celebrations were not delayed until later in the year. However previous milestone ceremonies have recognised Your help is required to identify any ground or air staff who the July date and there seems no valid reason not to con¬ may have been involved with No. 7. EFTS at Western tinue with this practice. There will be a second event later Junction. We are trying to contact any personnel or rela¬ in the year to coincide with Duigan’s flight at Bendigo. tives who may have information, photographs or memora¬ bilia associated with RAAF service between 1940 and Although there was no rain on Friday or the following day, 1946.. conditions at the oval were very wet underfoot, and I’d guess that a penetrometer reading would have exceeded Any information to AHSA member, Neil Louis, tel. (03) 10 by a large margin. In the circumstances, it was unlikely 6398-2968 or through the Evandale Historical Society,18 that the Duigan replica would have flown even if the en¬ High Street, Evandale, Tasmania. 7212. An email contact gine had started. Merely wheeling it around by hand left is: [email protected] deep furrows in the turf. 2 Named Aircraft. RAAF identity, A52-319 is displayed in its post war RAAF colour scheme of overall silver. de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito, VH-WAD The Quokka This ex RAAF, A52-319 was purchased by Jimmy Woods in September 1953 to enter the London to Christchurch ill Air Race in 1954. He ferried it from Amberley, Queensland to Perth on 10 E ¦ gS September 1953. The expected sponsorship from W.A.
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