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to lockoweb.com
Archives archives on this site:
In July 1914, the French pilot Maurice Guillaux flew from Sydney to
Melbourne with Australia’s first air mail and air freight. A re-enactment took
place in July 2014. www.australiasfirstairmail.com
.
One aim of the re-enactment is to gather the historical
knowledge of this period.
Enter
the Guillaux history pages here.
This
site also is a place to store stuff related mainly to my former voluntary role
as archivist at the Australian Aviation Museum, Bankstown. This museum opened
in 1985 and has preserved iconic items in a historic setting: the history of
Bankstown airfield is little known, and entirely amazing (see this summary). However, the prevailing public ideology
is that Sydney needs another shopping centre more than it needs an aviation
museum. Poor fellow, my country!
This
collection is huge (over 140 cubic metres) and contains many remarkable items.
It is in the custody of the board of AAMB. I am happy to assist with
communication to the board in regard to any matter relevant to the collection.
Digitising
the material and making it available on the internet is a new skill for the
people involved. If you have a slow internet connection you may find that some
large items take too long to load. We are working on this problem and hope to
improve things soon.
The
best contact for this website is tomlockley@gmail.com. Current contents
are
Digitising part of the Wills
collection
Data Sbeets for landing grounds, issued by DCA
about 1940
Some articles related to Bankstown airfield
Historical notes for heritage assessment 2009 (text
only)
Material
concerning the 1934
England-Melbourne Air Race
Material concerning the 2012 National LIbrary of Australia grant to enable a significance assessment
And
some useful links
If
you have an interest in what this site is trying to achieve, and you might like
to help, see this page