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Historical re-enactment in Australia has been occurring since at least the early 1970s. With no conventional land battles and few protracted civil disturbances since the British colonisation of Australia, most military re-enactment in Australia focuses on events from other countries (mostly European), including the European Feudal, medieval, and renaissance eras.
The Uiver Collection is of state significance for its historical values as a collection focussed on the last of the great pioneering air races between Europe and Australia and the first commercial international passenger flight to Australia. The success of the flight of the Uiver heralded the development of international air travel in Australia ...
Qantas began international passenger flights in May 1935. In 1948, the first commercial flight from Australia to Africa was flown by Qantas, launching what is known as the Wallaby Route . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 1954, the first flight from Australia to North America was completed, as a 60-passenger Qantas aircraft connected Sydney with San Francisco and ...
Flight of heavier-than-air machine (glider) [22] Narrabeen, New South Wales: Taylor Biplane Glider: George Augustine Taylor: 1909: 1909-12-09: Powered flight of heavier-than-air machine [23] Sydney: Wright Model A: Colin Defries: 1910: 1910-07-16: Flight of Australian-built plane [24] Mia Mia, Victoria: Duigan pusher biplane: John Duigan: 1911: ...
The U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission was established in 1999 to encourage the broadest national and international participation in the celebration of 100 years of powered flight. [153] It publicized and encouraged a number of programmes, projects and events intended to educate people about the history of aviation.
The First Fleet Reenactment Voyage (also known as the Second First Fleet) was a project to assemble a fleet of tall ships to sail from England to Australia in a historical reenactment of the First Fleet that colonised Australia in 1788. The reenactment was first conceived in 1977 and organised to commemorate Australia's bicentenary of colonisation.
The planned route was for flights between Crawley, Western Australia, and RAF Base Koggala in southern Ceylon. Designed to exploit the Catalina's extreme flight range, the flights became the longest non-stop commercial air route, covering over 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 kilometres; 4,000 miles) across the Indian Ocean.
Menzies, c. 1931 On 7 January 1931 Australian aviator Guy Menzies crash landed in the La Fontaine Swamp, near Hari Hari on the West Coast of New Zealand Guy Lambton Menzies (20 August 1909 – 1 November 1940) was an Australian aviator who flew the first solo trans-Tasman flight, from Sydney, Australia to the West Coast of New Zealand, on 7 January 1931.