Over last weekend of the 1st and 2nd of March Australia celebrated 100 years of Military Aviation in Australia. The celebration commemorates the occasion of the first military flight in Australia which took place at Point Cook on 1 March 1914. And having been there to witness the recreation of the fist flight in a replica Bristol Boxkite was something very humbling. I actually had to stop taking photos to witness what was happening in front of me.
Anyway enough of my ramblings I’ll let the photos do the talking and if you have any questions please ask. For more detailed photos and a greater selection please follow my page on Facebook. (Note you don’t have to be a member of Facebook to see it) https://www.facebook.com/HistoricAustralianAircraft
By: JDK - 7th March 2014 at 08:45
It was. More on the Boxkite here (including the book we did on it, a fundraser for RAAF museum Inc.) http://www.boxkite2014.org/
I’ll be putting some stuff up on a Boxkite blog, meantime some neat stuff on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/boxkite2014
And a *bump*!
By: Tin Triangle - 6th March 2014 at 12:28
That Meteor, Mustang, Sabre formation is amazing! The Boxkite recreation sounds like quite a moment too. Thanks for posting 🙂
By: JDK - 6th March 2014 at 12:01
Thanks for sharing! The Boxkite’s two flights (Commemoration on Sat, public flight on Sun) were all that we could’ve hoped for after seven year’s work by the Project 2014 team, RAAF Museum et al who made it happen.
Regards,
By: A-4Scooter - 5th March 2014 at 23:38
Some more
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