Description: 2024 Around Australia Flights: 100 YearsPost Office Pack OverviewThe feats of Australia’s intrepid early aviators pushed the boundaries of flight and helped galvanise national pride and identity. The introduction of air services also greatly improved communications, including air mail, over our vast continent. This year marks the centenary of the first two flights, by seaplane and landplane, around mainland AustraliaThe Stamps$1.50 Fairey IIID seaplane A10-3The first flight began on 6 April 1924, when Wing Commander Stanley Goble and Flying Officer Ivor McIntyre set off from the RAAF base at Point Cook, Victoria, in a single-engine, open-cockpit, Fairey IIID seaplane, A10-3. The duo travelled anti-clockwise, via Sydney, Southport, Townsville, Thursday Island, across the Gulf of Carpentaria to Darwin, Broome, Carnarvon, Perth, Albany, and Port Lincoln and back to Victoria. They battled poor weather and constant engine trouble and in Carnarvon, Western Australia, the plane’s engine had to be replaced. On 19 May, after 44 days and 13,600 kilometres, they alighted at St Kilda beach, Victoria, to an enthusiastic welcome from a 10,000-strong crowd gathered on the Esplanade.$1.50 De Havilland D.H.50 G-AUABThe second round-Australia flight, this time in a landplane, was carried out three months later by the Civil Aviation Branch (CAB) of the Department of Defence to inspect air routes and to test the long-distance efficiency of the De Havilland D.H.50 aircraft. The crew of the aircraft, registered G-AUAB, comprised expedition leader and Controller of Civil Aviation, Lt Col HC Brinsmead; pilot Captain EJ Jones, the CAB’s Superintendent of Flying Operations and Personnel; and mechanic RH Buchanan, an assistant Superintendent of Engineering. After departing Point Cook on 7 August, the trip was undertaken in three stages: Melbourne to Darwin via Bourke, Longreach and Cloncurry; Darwin to Perth; and Perth back to Point Cook, where they alighted on 29 August after flying 12,324 kilometres. Please check out my other Ebay items Postage Discount Available If purchasing more than one item please request an invoice or wait for one to be issued combining postage Orders over $40 will require registered mail Payment required within 5 days unless otherwise arranged
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Location: Stockton NSW
End Time: 2025-01-25T00:07:24.000Z
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Topic: Parrots
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