AHSA Melbourne Meeting December 2022: Annual Barbeque

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The final Melbourne meeting for the year will be a member’s barbecue, to be held at the Moorabbin Air Museum on Sunday 11 December, from 10am to 2pm.

Members and their partners are welcome.

1919 Captain Henry Wrigley and Sergeant Arthur William Murphy departed from Cloncurry, Queensland and flew to Camooweal on Sunday 7 December 1919 on the tenth leg of an aerial survey of a suitable route from Melbourne to Darwin. They were planning to arrive in Darwin before Ross and Keith Smith, Walter Sheirs and James Bennett who were flying from London in the Vickers Vimy G-EAOU. Flying in the single-engined Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2e B6183, Wrigley and Murphy flew in a west-north-westerly direction for approximately 430km. They continued from Camooweal across the border into the Northern Territory and westwards to Avon Downs station. Source: Tom Lockley, Wrigley and Murphy: Australia’s First Transcontinental Flight; AHSA (NSW) Inc., 2009.