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 Welcome the the Australian Army Flying Museum. The Air Force does most of the flying, but the Army currently has helicopters and cargo planes. |
 There is a nice collection of aircraft from WW1 to almost current. |
 Wide-angle of the hanger |
 A captures Fokker Dr 1. Think Red Baron. |
 And the Fokker's Allied nemesis the Sopwith Camel. |
 Airplanes advanced a lot during WW1. This is a Depersdussin trainer from just pre-war that had a 35hp engine and used wing warping to contol... |
 This Bristol Fighter F.2B from only 4 years later is more than twice as fast, 8x the horsepower and is looking a lot more like a modern aircraft. |
 The Army's first helicopter; the Bell Sioux. Views of the MAS*H television series may recognise it. |
 The Souix was replaced by the Iroquois in the 1960s. Orginally a cargo helicopter, it could become a ground attack gunship by adding machine guns to provide air support for grond troops. During the Vietnam War, the Australian troops would sometimes have the gunship version (shown here) of this helicopter supplied by the Americans, if they weren't busy somewhere else. Then one day one of the Australian Iroquois flew off with a full load of Victoria Bitter and flew back with all the parts needed to convert a regular helicopters into a gunship. A few months later the government actually bought a few gunships. |
 A Commonwealth Aircraft Company Winjeel A85 basic trainer. |
 Pilatus Turbo Porter cargo plane and aircraft tug. |
 The west end of the hanger. |
 Pilatus Turbo Porter |
 A Merlin V-12 engine from 1946. Many of the famous allied planes of WW2 used a version of this engine; Avro Lancaster, de Havilland Mosquito, Handley Page Halifax, Hawker Hurricane, Supermarine Spitfire and the American Mustang P51 used an licenced built version. |
 A Fordson Tug |
 Another Iroquois but in search and rescue colours. |
 Iroquois |
 Iroquois interior |
 A Cessna O-1 Bird Dog. This particular plane was built from the crashed remains of three American O-1s. The engine was aquired by trading a Holden staff car. |
 When Japan entered the war in 1942 Australia had no front line figther aircraft. The Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation designed and built the Boomerang CA-19 on only 16 1/2 weeks. |
 CAC Boomerang |
 GAF Nomad, and cargo plane from 1975-1995. |
 A prototype GAF Nomad. |
 Probably the only caribou in Australia. In this case a De Havilland Canada DHC-5 Caribou |
 In fact a whole herd of caribou |
 Entrance to the museum. |
 On the way home I broke 20,000 km on the bike |
