Retracing the journey of two German aviators stranded in outback 80 years ago

Back then it was more a sense of adventure..Now its more a sense of OHS in case we hurt an ant.

Creaking door…I am sad to say I have met several air adventurers who were very poorly prepared for their flights and one paid the ultimate price.Lessons learned seemed to have been adopted by the military across the world but civvys often can pick what they feel they need to take and disregard advice.

No, I agree that it is good that these cultural differences are observed, or at least that warnings are posted (but not on the news video piece?); it was just not something that I’d ever come across before.

Quite shocking the attitude of the white men at the time towards the likely behaviour of the aboriginal people, compared to their actual behaviour towards the ‘whitefellas’!

Creaking Door, yes, very much so. Among certain indigenous groups in Australia, a long-standing cultural observance was to avoid using the name of a person who’d died, for different periods of time, from days to years. This was extended to depictions in images or film. Not so common in the cities, but it’s still observed widely in the bush.

It’s good that this cultural practice is respected, even if it does seem unusual to those not familiar with it.

Cheers,
Matt

What were the warnings that ‘this item contains images of aboriginal people who have died’ for (as opposed to, what I was expecting, that this item contained images of dead aboriginal people)? And no warnings about images of white people who have died.

Is there something particular in aboriginal culture about photographs of people who have since died?

It always amazes me how staggeringly unprepared some of these early aviation explorers were; perhaps it’s part of the ‘machismo’ of crossing vast oceans in unreliable single-engined aircraft that the prerequisite survival gear seems to be a monogrammed bath-robe, some calfskin moccasin slippers and a set of golf-clubs!

Nobody in the 20th century should have been allowed to fly any floatplane that didn’t already have both its floats pre-converted into some sort of survival-craft! Nobody!

Bertram wrote a book on his ordeal in 1932. ‘Flight into Hell’ is a good one to read.