Recently seen at Darwin Airport, Australia – while i was reporting on the RAAF Pitch Black exercise – was this ex RAAF HGU-2A/P dual visor flight helmet from the 1970s-80s era with dual visor single ramshorn cover – https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3586854829660&set=a.1875136877781.2092406.1221968213&type=1&relevant_count=1 and https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3586850869561&set=a.1875136877781.2092406.1221968213&type=1&relevant_count=1
For the interest Darwin Airport is built in an area where in WW2 RAAF B-24 Liberator bombers were at one time parked in revetments between missions and was also attacked many times by the Japanese in bombing raids from 1942 onwards – such as the book in the case next to helmet points out – Darwins Air War….
A report on the aviation heritage centre / museum located at the airport will be in a future blog story. They house the only other B-52 BUFF on display outside the USA / UK… a B-52G model along with some very nice RAAF aircraft and much WW2 relics including Jap fighters shot down over Darwin…..
By: flyernzl - 19th August 2012 at 22:47
That Darwin museum is indeed an interesting place.
I called in there a couple of years ago. Unfortunately, after I had spent the morning on the Darwin WW2 minibus tour (also a worthwhile exercise), my camera battery died on me. As a desperate measure I bought one of those elcheapo one-time use Kodak disposable cameras.
As a result I now have some of the worst photographs of museum aircraft ever taken.
They were so bad that the Kodak shop refused to charge me for processing them.
If you are planning to visit the museum during your stay in Darwin, arrange transport as the place is quite a way out of town.
By: H-87A-2CU - 18th August 2012 at 02:59
Darwin, Australia war heritage
I actually thought the claim was the only Late model BUFF external to the US
By: A-4Scooter - 17th August 2012 at 01:36
I’ve seen that claimed by a lot by people who haven’t been to visit the B-52 at the War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea.
Sadly research isn’t a strong point for some people. As to the B-52 in Korea that is a very interesting place!
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August 16, 2012 at 3:01 pm