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Aviation Heritage Vol. 54 No. 2 (June 2023) Contents Listing

The latest quarterly AHSA journal - Aviation Heritage - has recently been posted to members. The contents of all articles are listed below: Aviation...

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