Lockoweb Aviation History Archives

 Background to published works and general research

 

Maurice Guillaux in France and Australia with contemporary records of the 2914 celebration activities

Graham Carey  and Jacques Marduel, Edwin Prosser

Basil Watson

Lebbeus Hordern

Ross and Keith Smith across Australia 1919 and related flights – Wrigley and Murphy, Ray Parer

Francesco De Pinedo

Goble and Macintyre

Williams Pacific Flight

Aircraft of MAAS Museum

Luigi Pellarini

Major aviation publications and research material

World War II airfields (map and general information collection) - partof the collection of  the Australian Aviation Museum at Bankstown, originals were destroyed when the museum was closed.

Kamikaze : General history of the Kamikaze, using Japanese sources as well as US material, with emphasis on the Australian involvement

Air Control in the British Empire 1919-1939 in web form

History of Bankstown Airport and the word version, with pictures, is here and can be downloaded

The 1969 England-Ausralia air race

General Aviation files

From the Wills collection: the RAAF first A-series (and some of the second A-series). This is only a miniscule fraction of the Wills collection, which was destroyed in the dissolution of the Australian Aviation Museum at Bankstown

1969 air race - 50 years anniversary of Smith flight from England to Australia
Australian Women Pilots Association trial archive

 1934 England-Australia air race handbook: this may be unique

AHSA NSW bulletins

 

Miscellaneous: non-Aviation publications

The Story of Coleambally (1974) I edited this book  to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the establishment of Coleambally township as a centre for teh Coleambally Irrigation Area which utilised the water turned to the east of the Great Dividing Range as a result of the Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme.

65 Years on:  Les Brown volunteered to join the army in 1940 and served on the bitterly fought but little-known campaign in Palestine against the Vichy French. Later he took part in the invasion of Morotai. After the war he did not speak of these experiences and embarked  on an academic career, becoming a leading figure in the field of philosophy of education, Sixty five years later, at my prompting, he wrote this account of his military service, and it contains many fascinating insights. However, there were definitely some aspects of war that troubled him: there were times when he just looked me in the eye and said, ‘Tom, that is all I am prepared to divulge’. I was privileged to help him record this book and to publish many of the poems that he wrote in retirement. I will put a selection of these on the internet shortly.

John Lockley of Stanmore: Family history, of interest to the Lockley family.

Like Most Italians: the unjust wartime imprisonment of Salvatore Vignolio: a cautionary tale

 

Powerhouse Museum archive

Pre-development pictures and first development plans of Graeme Dodds as html and word file