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Early Australian aviation - Australia's Culture Portal

Until the Second World War, Australia was one of the world's leaders in aviation in terms of both air mileage and prominent aviation pioneers. Since the early development of powered flight in Australia in 1910, various air services have been established:...

Aviatrices - Australian women of the air - Australia's Culture Portal

Unknown photographer, Freda Thompson (1906-1980), Pictured here in 1934 just before take off at Lympne Airport when she became the first Australian woman to fly solo from England to Australia, 1934. Courtesy of National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame. Avia...

Women and air defence - Australia's Culture Portal

Women's involvement in air defence forces in a flying capacity was highly limited until the 1970s. For decades, women's roles in air defence were restricted to jobs on the ground and within Australia. Australian women's involvement in air defence servic...

Australian civil aviation - Australia's Culture Portal

The Australian Flying Corps (AFC) was as influential on Australian civil aviation as it was on early Australian aviation. Two former AFC officers, Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinness, established what later became known as Qantas, with Fysh also supporting th...

Charles Kingsford Smith - Australia's Culture Portal

Unknown, Portrait of Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith, between 1919 and 1927. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's love of excitement led to career as a pilot. Charles Kingsford Smith was born in Hamilton (a suburb of Brisbane), Queensland, in 1897. ...

Australian surrealism - Australia's Culture Portal

Employing dream imagery, poetry and precarious juxtapositions, Australian artists in the 1930s and early 1940s responded to European surrealists and were part of an international surrealist movement - 'in all its clarity'. Many of Australia's best known a...

Aviation museums - Australia's Culture Portal

Aviation has been very significant in Australia. As a country with large distances to cross and a sparse population, aviation was an ideal way to provide services such as mail, transport, medical support and goods supply. All around Australia, a large n...

Charles 'Moth' Eaton - Australia's Culture Portal

Gp Capt Eaton Charles, CO RAAF Station Darwin. Image courtesy of the Charles Eaton Photographic Collection and Peter Dunn's Australia @ War. Eaton entered Australian aviation legend when commanding the air searches for two lost aircraft, the Kookaburra ...

Australian Oscar success - Australia's Culture Portal

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science was established in 1927 and the Academy Awards or Oscars ceremonies commenced in 1929. Image courtesy of Latent Image Productions Pty Ltd and National Film & Sound Archive. Over the past 60 years Australians...

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Sir Hubert Wilkins   (more info)

When Sir Hubert Wilkins died in 1958, he left behind a lifetime collection of films, photographs and writings. This material remained largely unseen for the next 40 years. Now you can be part of the journey of discovery as a documentary team sets out to

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Six encounters with aviators   (website Screening the Past )

,Äù ,ÄúCommodified visual mobility,,Äù she writes, ,Äúbecame a global standard of modernity,Äù (Friedberg, p. The intertwined nature of early aviation and cinema can be explored through a series of encounters with aviators experienced by Australian silen...

YMA Movie Review - The Aviator   (website Young Media Australia (YMA) )

Children under 15 Due to the adult themes, low level coarse language, sexual situations and references, nudity, domestic violence, inferred sexual abuse, and a plane crash containing disturbing images of graphic injuries, The Aviator is not recommended fo...

The Aviator | Australian Movie Guide   (website Australian Movie Guide )

<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT = "The Aviator starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda, Ian Holm, Danny Huston, Gwen Stafeani, Jude Law, Edward Herrmann, Willem Dafoe. Aviation pioneer and Hol...

Urban Cinefile AVIATOR, THE   (website Urban Cinefile )

SYNOPSIS:Just before World War I, the young Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) inherits a fortune in the shape of his father's drill bit company. The film's success brings him celebrity status and the company of stars like Katharine Hepburn (Cate Blanchet...

Urban Cinefile AVIATOR, THE   (website Urban Cinefile )

SYNOPSIS:Just before World War I, the young Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) inherits a fortune in the shape of his father's drill bit company. The film's success brings him celebrity status and the company of stars like Katharine Hepburn (Cate Blanchet...

Our first aviators | State Library of New South Wales   (website(s) State Library of New South Wales    Discover atmitchell collections )

By 1910, other aviators with imported flying machines strove to make the first powered flight in Australia. On 23 February 1911, Frank Coles became Australia's first aircraft passenger when aviator Joseph Hammond took his mechanic aloft while demonstrati...

Aviators | Music NT   (website Music NT )

Music NT Inc. is the non-profit member based music organisation for the Northern Territory representing, developing and servicing the TerritoryÔÇÖs original music industry. Music NT operates offices in Darwin and Alice Springs. Copyright &copy 2010 Music...

The Aviators "They nailed it!" | Music NT   (website Music NT )

Competing with over 100 bands registered in the Darwin region on the triple j Unearthed site, they won the opportunity to play at Darwin Festival s new purpose-built venue The Lighthouse. Well done to The Aviators and a massive thanks to triple j and to a...

Australian Women Aviators - Lores Bonney - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

>User keywords, or 'tags', are words added to object records by other users to enhance their discovery. >>We are experimenting with tagging because sometimes museums describe objects in language that is highly specialist and user added keywords are usefu...

Italian clear aviators - New Fashion | Lost At E Minor: For creative people   (website Lost At E Minor )

Coming from an I.D background, it seemed that the eyewear designer,Äôs artisan approach to mass production was unique. This fashion photo series ,Äî Entre Chien et Loup ,Äî is the product of a collaboration between Parisian-based photographer Amira Fritz...