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Category: AHSA Videos

DerekB26/07/202321/05/2024

AHSA Melbourne Meeting July 2023 (Andrew Jackling: Space Weather Forecasting)

Our guest speaker at the 26 July 2023 AHSA Meeting in Melbourne was Andrew Jackling, who presented on the topic “Eyes in the sky:...
DerekB28/06/202321/05/2024

AHSA Melbourne Meeting June 2023 (Mark Lax: Tips and Tricks For Researching Our Air Force’s Stories)

The speaker for our combined Friends of Air Force History and Heritage (FAFHH) and Aviation Historical Society of Australia (AHSA) on 28 June 2023...
DerekB24/05/202321/05/2024

AHSA Melbourne Meeting May 2023 (Andy Hansen: A Short History of Aerial Photography)

Our guest speaker at the meeting held on 24 May 2023 was Dr Andrew Hansen, who gave a fascinating presentation about the history and...
DerekB26/04/202321/05/2024

AHSA Melbourne Meeting April 2023 (Martin James: Battle of the Bismarck Sea)

Our speaker for the meeting held on 26 April 2023 was RAAF Historian Mr Martin James. This meeting was another joint presentation with the...
DerekB22/03/202321/05/2024

AHSA Melbourne Meeting March 2023 (Annie Floodin: Boeing History)

Our March 2023 Melbourne meeting featured a presentation by Annie Floodin, a historian from Boeing Historical Services who is currently visiting Australia connecting with...
DerekB22/02/202321/05/2024

AHSA Melbourne Meeting February 2023 (Jeff Maynard: The Lost Records of Sir Hubert Wilkins)

Jeff Maynard was the guest speaker for our 22 February 2023 meeting in Melbourne. Jeff has been researching the life and records of Sir...
DerekB26/10/202228/11/2022

AHSA Melbourne Meeting October 2022 (Peter Hobbins: The RAAF’s early embrace of flight simulation)

Our October 2022 Melbourne meeting was another joint presentation with the RAAF History and Heritage Branch, and we thank them for this continuing collaboration....
DerekB28/09/202224/11/2022

AHSA Monthly Meeting September 2022 (GPCAPT Grant Kelly: Historic Unrecovered War Casualties)

Our September 2022 Melbourne meeting was held in person at the RAAF Association meeting room in Hawthorn and also “broadcast” to interstate members via...
DerekB24/08/202210/11/2022

AHSA Monthly Meeting August 2022 (Richard de Crespigny AM: The QF32 Experience – Before, During & After)

Our August 2022 Melbourne meeting was held in person at the RAAF Association meeting room in Hawthorn and also “broadcast” to interstate members via...
DerekB27/07/202208/11/2022

AHSA Monthly Meeting 27 July 2022 (GPCAPT Macauley Cottrell: Forward Air Control Operations In Vietnam)

Our July 2022 Melbourne meeting, held in collaboration with the Friends of Air Force History and Heritage, was held in person at the RAAF...

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On this day in Australian aviation history:

1939 de Havilland DH.60 Moth A7-62 operated by 1 Flying Training School RAAF crashed 3 miles west of Point Cook, Victoria on 29 November 1939. The aircraft spun into the ground inverted after the wing collapsed. Both crew members - Flying Officer R T Vincent and Pilot Officer J R Whitford - were killed. Flying Officer Vincent's funeral, with full air force honours, was held on 22 December 1939 at Highton Cemetry, Geelong. Sources: ADF-Serials; aviation-safety.net website
1962 Australia's first locally-constructed satellite, WRESAT was launched at Woomera on 29 November 1967, making Australia only the third country in the world to build and launch its own satellite, behind Russia and the United States. Using a spare American Redstone rocket from the tripartite Sparta project conducted at Woomera, the Weapons Research Establishment satellite (WRESAT) was designed, developed, built and successfully launched in eleven months. The US and the UK provided assistance on the project, including the US Department of Defense, NASA, and the UK’s Ministry of Technology. WRESAT completed 642 orbits and transmitted scientific information for 73 of these to tracking and research stations around the world. It re-entered the earth’s atmosphere and was destroyed by the resultant high temperature on 10 January 1968 over the Atlantic Ocean west of Ireland. Apart from the experimental data obtained, WRESAT contributed both to the knowledge of the solar-terrestrial relationship and to the studies of atmospheric composition. The project also presented an opportunity for a united approach to a scientific problem with demanding requirements. Such was the interest in space technology that the WRESAT prototype was exhibited in Parliament House, Canberra, and at the London Trade Fair in 1968. Souce: dst.defence.gov.au
2005 OzJet Airlines commenced ‘business class’ Boeing 737 operations between Melbourne and Sydney on 29 November 2005. Source: Tansy Harcourt, ‘Lots of legroom as Ozjet flies’, Australian Financial Review, 29 November 2005, via aph.gov.au website

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