CAC Plant Reports 1941, numbers 74-85

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1919 Captain Henry Wrigley and Sergeant Arthur William Murphy departed from Nyngan at about 9:30am and flew to Bourke on Friday 22 November 1919 on the fifth 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 north-westerly route of approximately 200km took them over Girilambone, Coolabah, Byerock and Mooculta. They landed at Bourke just before 11:00am and landed opposite the railway station where they were greeted by Mayor Alderman H.K. Bloxham. Source: Tom Lockley, Wrigley and Murphy: Australia’s First Transcontinental Flight; AHSA (NSW) Inc., 2009.

2008 At Sydney Airport on 22 November 2008, an aircraft engineer noticed that a taxiing Qantas 747 had a damaged wing flap. The flight to New Zealand was aborted and an investigation begun. Source: AAP, ‘Qantas flight cancelled after wing damage’, The Age, 22 November 2008. via aph.gov.au website