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Category: AHSA Videos

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...

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On this day in Australian aviation history:

1919 Captain Henry Wrigley and Sergeant Arthur William Murphy departed from Cootamundra and flew to Forbes on 17 November 1919 on the second leg of an aerial survey of a suitable route from Melbourne to Darwin. Flying in the single-engined Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2e B6183, their route of approximately 140km took them over Stockinbingal, Bribbaree and Caragabal. Source: Tom Lockley, Wrigley and Murphy: Australia’s First Transcontinental Flight; AHSA (NSW) Inc., 2009.
2007 Cessna 337G Super Skymaster VH-CHU operated by G J & M H Investments Pty Ltd. crashed off Cape Liptrap Road, approx 24 Km SE of Inverloch, Victoria on 17 November 2007. The owner and pilot was conducting a private flight in accordance with the visual flight rules from Moorabbin Airport, Victoria, to Merimbula, NSW. The pilot, who was accompanied by three passengers, had indicated that he would be tracking along the coast. The aircraft did not arrive at Merimbula and on 19 November 2007 aircraft wreckage and three of the deceased occupants were found on a beach between Venus Bay and Cape Liptrap, Victoria. Some wreckage was later found in the sea, off the beach. There were no survivors of the four persons (pilot, Geoff Milne, his wife Mathilde, their son and his girlfriend) on board. The investigation found that while manoeuvring over water at low level in conditions of reduced visibility, the pilot probably became spatially disorientated and inadvertently descended into the water. A contributing factor was the pilot’s lack of instrument flying qualification and minimal instrument flying training and experience. Sources: ATSB report A02007061; aviation-safety.net website

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