Events – Page 2 – Aviation Historical Society of Australia

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Melbourne meeting – 28 June 2017

John Kneen will give a presentation on Zero Day at Broome. The infamous attack on Broome by Japanese Zero aircraft. An interesting talk and...

DerekB07/05/201718/06/2017

Sydney meeting – 7 June 2017

Tom Lockley will present aspects of the Bob Wills Collection. The Wills Collection was large and extensive. Bob was an avid collector of Australian...

DerekB24/04/201718/06/2017

Melbourne meeting – 24 May 2017

Alan Searle will be our guest speaker on 24 May. Flying a C-47A to China for the Flying Tigers Museum will be his subject....

DerekB20/04/201728/04/2017

Melbourne meeting – 26 April 2017

The next member's meeting in Melbourne will be held on Wednesday 26 April 2017 at the RAAF Association in Camberwell Road, Camberwell.

DerekB09/12/201610/12/2016

Melbourne members barbeque – 11 Dec 2016

This will be the final gathering for the year, the annual social get-together and BBQ at the Australian National Aviation Museum at Moorabbin airport....

DerekB19/11/201622/12/2016

John Duigan Memorial Lecture – Melbourne 23 Nov 2016

Mike Smith will deliver the 2016 John Duigan Memorial Lecture at 7:30pm on November 23rd at the RAAF Association, Camberwell Road, Hawthorn East. Mike...

1932 The de Havilland D.H.50 aircraft VH-UEM, flown by H.F. Baker and carrying Norman Stuckley and Paddy Whelan of the Lasseter Reef Company, crashed during a flight from Forrest to the Livesey Ranges in Western Australia on 22 December 1932. They repaired the aircraft over the next five days and Baker and Stuckley successfully flew the damaged aircraft back to Forrest, Whelan being rescued several days later. Source: Parnell, N. and Boughton, T., Flypast, A record of aviation in Australia, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1988.

1941 No. 453 Squadron RAAF suffered its heaviest losses in one day as the Squadron attacked Japanese troops and transports and provided air cover to Allied ground troops in Malaya on 22 December 1941. Five Brewster Buffalos were destroyed and another four damaged, with three pilots being killed. On 24 December, with only three working aircraft remaining, No. 453 Squadron withdrew to Singapore and merged with 21 Squadron. Source: Gillison, RAAF 1939-1942, p.280

2000 Just prior to Christmas, Ansett grounded seven of its Boeing 767 aircraft on 22 December 2000 after an employee discovered that required inspections had not occurred in March. The mandatory inspections were performed with CASA supervision. A Boeing Alert Service Bulletin was then rediscovered (but did not become public until April 2001). Hairline cracks were discovered in the horizontal tail surfaces of some aircraft. Cracks were then found in the engine pylon mounts of three aircraft along with a crack in the tail of one that remained grounded after Christmas. These were similar to those that doomed an El Al Cargo Boeing 747. CASA placed conditions on Ansett operations and maintenance procedures, although it emerged that CASA had granted Ansett an extension for inspections a year previously. CASA had adopted a new systems audit approach to apply management programs to airlines. The ATSB also investigated the groundings and compliance of CASA, Boeing and Ansett as a safety deficiency issue. Sourcs: Australian Financial Review, 17 April 2001; Sydney Morning Herald, 13 April 2001; Australia Aviation 6/01 (Ansett Chronology). via aph.gov.au website