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DerekB25/05/202208/11/2022

AHSA Monthly Meeting 25 May 2022 (WGCDR Philip Beanland: RAAF 100 Squadron)

Our Melbourne monthly meeting on 25 May 2022, in collaboration with the Friends of Air Force History and Heritage, was held in person at...

DerekB27/04/202208/11/2022

AHSA Monthly Meeting 27 April 2022 (Leigh Edmonds: Norman Brearly and West Australian Airways)

Our Melbourne monthly meeting on 27 April 2022 was held in person at the RAAF Association meeting room in Hawthorn and also “broadcast” to...

DerekB23/03/202208/11/2022

AHSA Monthly Meeting 23 March 2022 (WGCDR Mathew Shelley: The RAAF Museum and the New Vision For the Museum’s Future)

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

DerekB23/02/202208/11/2022

AHSA Monthly Meeting 23 February 2022 (Michael Smith: Commemorative Flight From London to Darwin, 2019)

Our February 2022 Melbourne meeting, was held in person at the RAAF Association meeting rooms in Hawthorn and also “broadcast” to interstate members via...

DerekB24/11/202108/11/2022

AHSA Monthly Meeting 24 November 2021 (Lance Halvorson: RAAF Strike Aircraft 1953-2010)

Our Melbourne monthly meeting on 24 November 2021, in collaboration with the Friends of Air Force History and Heritage, was held in person at...

1892 Herbert John Louis (Bert) Hinkler, aviator and aircraft designer, was born on 8 December 1892 at Bundaberg, Queensland, son of John William Hinkler, German-born stockman, and his wife Frances Atkins, née Bonney. Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography.

1919 Captain Henry Wrigley and Sergeant Arthur William Murphy departed from Avon Downs Station, Northern Territory and flew to Alexandria Station on Monday 8 December 1919 on the eleventh 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 northerly direction for approximately 156km. Source: Tom Lockley, Wrigley and Murphy: Australia’s First Transcontinental Flight; AHSA (NSW) Inc., 2009.

2018 Pilatus Britten-Norman BN2A-20 Islander VH-OBL crashed after departing Cambridge airport, near Hobart, Tasmania on 8 December 2018 at about 7:48am. Pilot Nikita Walker was scheduled to arrive at Bathurst Harbour about 45 minutes later to pick up five passengers for the return flight. At about 8:29am, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority was informed the emergency locator transmitter on the aircraft had activated and advised Tasmania Police. That evening, the wreckage was located near the Western Arthur Range in the Southwest National Park. The pilot was fatally injured and the aircraft was destroyed. The ATSB found that the pilot was using a route through the Arthur Range due to low cloud conditions and had continued over a saddle in the range at a lower altitude than previous flights. During this, the pilot likely encountered reduced visual cues, as per the forecast conditions. This led to controlled flight into terrain while attempting to exit the range. Sources: ATSB; https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-25/coroner-inquest-pilot-nikita-walker-tasmania-crash/101370152

2020 Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet A44-223 of No. 1 Squadron crashed on take-off from RAAF Base Amberely, Queensland on 8 December 2020. The aircraft was taking off along with seven other aircraft when the pilot was distracted and veered off the runway. As a consequence, the aircrew both ejected while the aircraft ran off the runway where it came to a halt. Images taken by bystanders and published by Australian media outlets show the Super Hornet with a collapsed nose gear in the grass beside the tarmac. The aircraft was repaired for a cost of approximately $1.5 million and returned to service. Initial reports suggested that on of the aircraft's two engines had failed. A partially redacted investigation report by the Defence Flight Safety Bureau (DFSB) was released by Senator Rex Patrick in June 2022, finding that the pilot had been distracted by cockpit warning lights during take-off and the jet veered off the runway. The report stated “substandard adherence to checklist actions prior to the aircraft lining up resulted in a ‘master caution’ and ‘check trim’ message on the left digital display indicator as the throttles were advanced into afterburner for takeoff". "During the takeoff roll, the check trim [indicator] caution distracted the pilot from prioritizing focus on directional control, resulting in the aircraft’s deviation in heading to go unnoticed/uncorrected for several seconds.” Sources: ADF-Serials; https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-08/super-hornet-crash-raaf-amberley-air-base/12962426; https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-08/pilot-error-caused-raaf-super-hornet-eject/101131502