In November James Kightly and I visited the fascinating Airways Museum at Essendon Airport, in Melbourne, Australia. We made a podcast for the Wings Over New Zealand Show’s “Wings Over Australia” sub-series. I am sure any fan of aviation, navigation, airlines and airways will find this show really interesting and worth a listen. Our hosts Phil Vabre and Maurice Austin were great in explaining all the different Airways systems through history that have made flying safer and easier over the decades. These two guys are fonts of knowledge on the technical history behind the scenes in aviation that the average pilot and traveller would never really think about.
The museum is unusual as an aviation-themed museum that has no aeroplanes, but it more than makes up for it with fascinating display of technological wizardry from through the ages that has all contributed to various forms of aerial navigation and safety when flying across the vast continent of Australia, and around the world. Phil and Maurice demonstrate and explain the various eras of Airways technology in a most entertaining and hands on way.
You can download and/or listen to the programme,and see a selection of interesting photos of the Museum, here:
http://www.cambridgeairforce.org.nz/WONZShow/2015/12/ep-93-airways-museum/
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December 18, 2015 at 11:20 pm