Gallery

Andre Turcat, 1968

de Havilland DH 108 Swallow, VW 120, 1948

Harold Gatty & Harold Bromley, 1931

Charles Kingsford Smith, 1934

Haslope's Komet, 1945

RAAF Mustang pilot, Flt Lt Haslope, dispatches a Luftwaffe rocket-powered Me163 fighter.

Pilcher's Hawk

The Fabulous RAAF Phantom

6 Sqdn RAAF F-4Es over Evans Head Bombing Range, NSW

Spitfires Defend Darwin, 1943

Hawker Sea Fury

The ultimate piston-engined fighter

Qantas Boeing 707/338c over Rome

Hermann Köhl, 1928

Harry Hawker, 1919

Williams & McIntyre's DH50A, 1926

The Boeing 737

The world's most successful jetliner

Qantas Double Sunrise "Altair Star" deparats Perth for Ceylon, 1943

Mrs Chubby Miller, 1930

The Darling of the American Press

Qantas 747/400 over Hong Kong

Korean War Battler

A RAN Firefly V makes a low pass over HMAS Sydney

The Australian Flying Corps makes the first flight across Australia, 1919

RAN Wessex 31B over HMAS Melbourne

Australia's only airworthy Spitfire Mk VIII

RAN Grumman Tracker takes off from HMAS Melbourne

Australians, first across the world, 1919

Ross and Keith Smith, with Jim Bennet and Wally Shiers, fly from England to Australia.

RAN Skyhawks of 805 Sdqn climb out over HMAS Melbourne at sunset

Great Barrier Reef Survey, RAAF 101 Flt Seagul IIIs

Flt Lt Walker RAAF; a Bay of Biscay Battle, 1943

A Short Sunderland III fights off eight Ju88s

The Not-so-Lucky Lady

The first single-engined crossing of the Pacific nearly comes to grief in Fiji

RAN Skyhawks joining formation above HMAS Melbourne

Not the best of starts...

Smithy circles the wreckage of the British airship, R101, in a farewell salute to a friend lost in the crash, 1930.

RAN Seahawks over HMAS Sydney

Southern Cross, 1928

First aerial crossing of the Pacific

Ansett Sandringham "Beachcomber" over Lord Howe Island, 1972

RAN Gannets over HMAS Melbourne

RAAF Lockheed F-35A over Sydney

Yet another record for Smithy

RAN Sea King over HMAS Melbourne

Sailing out of Disaster

Frigate Bird II at Easter Island, 1951

HARS Lockheed Super Constellation arrives at Australia's Museum of Flight

Night reconnaissance flight reveals USN Chicago Sydney, May 30th 1942

Without this daring night flight, Japanese midget submarines would not have attacked warships in Sydney Harbour.

“G’day mon ami!”

An Australian Recce pilot’s fleeting greeting in Northern France, April 27th, 1944.

Shipping Strike in the Flores Sea, 1944

B-24J Liberators of 82 Wing RAAF

"Corkscrew!"

“We Dood It Too” takes evasive action over the Ruhr, Germany, 1944.

RAAF 'Magpie 228' takes a fatal hit

805 Sqdn RAN Sea Venom makes a low pass over HMAS Melbourne

Bert Hinkler

Bundaberg's Brilliant Star

The Indefatigable Parer

"By Jove, look at this!"