RAAF ASSOCIATION
61 Davey Street, Hobart, Tas. 7000.
FROM...
Bristol Boxkite beginnings*...
[*Photo by Air Marshal Retd. Jake Newham. Taken at
Point Cook, Victoria, exactly 100 years - to the minute! - after the first
military flight in Australia's history.]
TO...
F/A-18 Hornet
And everything in between!
TASMANIAN AIRMEN
Some Tasmanian members of the Australian Flying Corps – WW1
Hudson FYSH, KBE DFC [founder of QANTAS]; Oliver LEE, MC; Syd ADDISON
OBE; Jack
BUTLER;
Cli PETERS, DFC; Allan BROWN DFC; Frank HEADLAM.
BIOGRAPHIES, MEDALS AND HONOURS
Air Vice-Marshal Brian EATON, CB, CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC.
Australia’s Most Decorated Fighter Pilot.
Flight Lieutenant Stuart Crosby WALSH. -
Killed in the Battle of Britain 1940.
Wing Commander Bill FALKINDER, CBE, DSO, DFC & Bar. WW2 Pathfinder.
AUTHENTIC FLYING SUITS
1914 - 2014
EXTENSIVE UNIFORM AND PHOTOGRAPHIC DISPLAYS
Uniforms in the RAAF Memorial Centre Museum Hobart.
Photographs in the RAAF Memorial Centre Museum Hobart.
TECHNOLOGY
SOME INTERESTING EQUIPMENT
FROM WORLD WAR TWO
Inside a
Lancaster Bombsight
Fighter Gunsight
Aircraft Sextant
RAAF ASSOCIATION
61 Davey Street, Hobart, Tas. 7000.
OFFICIAL RE-DEDICATION BY THE GOVERNOR OF TASMANIA - 29 JULY 2016.
Open by arrangement: See http://www.raafatas.com/158198720