AUSTRALIAN AVIATION MUSEUM  BANKSTOWN

 

DVDs  COPIED FROM VIDEO TAPES – (COMMENCED  SEP 2007)

 

 

Disk No.

 

1.                  Royal Aeronautical Society

-          The Brabazon Committee – Sir Peter Masefield

-          Brabazon Lecture - The UK Aerospace Industry

-          The Lindbergh Lecture March 1998 – Competition Policy & The Air Transport  Sector

 

2.   (1)    Royal Australian Air Force 1921 – 1996    Warriors of The Sky

      (3)    Britain’s Future Is In The Air  (Pre WWII RAF)

            (4)    Just Australian Planes – Australian Flying Boats – War Experience

                   Harold Thomas & The Camden Museum of Aviation

      (5)    Bomb Design & Testing

      (6)    The Last Plane Out of Berlin (The Sidney Cotton Story)

 

3.   (1)    The Bankstown Aviation Museum Inc.  “The Turning of The First Sod”  Tues 15 Feb 1994    

            (2)    Bankstown Aviation Museum – Architectural Design  & Presentations -   23 June 1994

 

4.   (1)    D-Day Airshow - England  June 1994  

      (2)    The Greatest Flight – Vickers Vimy – National Geographic Society

            (3)    Warbirds Over Wanaka, New Zealand   1994

      (4)    Wooden Wonders to Whisper Jets (60 Years of aviation at Hatfield, from De Havilland to British

              Aerospace

 

5.   (1)    Airbus – “Moving On”

            (2)    Formation Flying over Sydney – RAAF Mirages

            (3)    RAAF Orions

            (4)    Dakota National Air – Bankstown

            (5)    The Qantas Story

            (6)    Gibbs / Creswell – Me 109 & Kittyhawk – Col Pay’s Collection

            (7)    After Desert Storm

            (8)    Extreme Machines – Flight Power

            (9)    Hawker Siddeley Harrier – VMA 542

     (10)    Lockheed Tristar / Air Hostesses – Promotional Video

     (11)    Hovercraft SRN 4 – Maid of All Work

 

6.   (1)    D-Day Airshow - England  June 1994  

            (2)    RAAF 462 / 466 Squadrons Memorial Dedication Service Set/ 1993 – Driffield, England

            (3)    Wagon Trucks in The Sky – Australian Aviation

      (4)    Australia Heritage Series – Flight

            (5)    Light Without Power – “Beta Light”

 

7.   (1)    Supermarine Spitfire    RR  Leavesden – Wing Comd. Sheppard, RAF & Mr. E. A. Radford, Qantas

                      (6 minutes)

            (2)    R. J. Mitchell – Aircraft Designer    (46 minutes)

 

8.         (1)    The Royal Aeronautical Society Sopwith Lectures -  1990

            (2)    The Royal Aeronautical Society Sopwith Lectures -  1996  -  Open Skies  and The Survival of the

               Fittest

 

9.                  The Royal Aeronautical Society

-          Feb 1990

-          The Membership Question

-          The Way Forward

 

10.              Wings of The Luftwaffe       Time- Life Video 1993

-          Junkers Ju 87  Stuka

-          Junkers Ju 88

-          Me 163 Komet (Messerschmitt)

 

11.              Wings of The Luftwaffe – Time Life Video 1993

-          Messerschmitt  Me 109

 

12.              Great Planes – AVI Australia 1989

-    AV-8 / AV-8B  Harrier

 

13.              Great Planes – AVI Australia 1989

-    Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

 

14.              Great Planes – AVI Australia 1989

-    Consolidated B-24 Liberator

 

15.              Great Planes – AVI Australia 1989

-          Consolidated (Convair)  B-36  Peacemaker

 

16.              Great Fighting Jets       Time-Life Video 1989

-    McDonnell-Douglas  F-18  Hornet

 

17.              Great Fighting Jets       Time-Life Video 1988

-    XB-70  Valkyrie

 

18.              Great Fighting Jets       Time-Life Video 1990

-    Stealth

 

19.              Great Fighting Jets       Time-Life Video 1991

-    General Dynamics   F-16 Fighting Falcon

 

20.              Great Fighting Jets       Time-Life Video 1989

-    Republic   F-105   Thunderchief

 

21.              Great Fighting Jets       Time-Life Video 1988

-    Lockheed   F104   Starfighter

 

22.              Great Fighting Jets       Time-Life Video 1988

-    General Dynamics   F-111  Aardvark

 

23.              Great Fighting Jets       Time-Life Video 1991

-     Grumman   F-14  Tomcat 

 

24.              Great Fighting Jets       Time-Life Video 1991

-      Grumman   F-14  Tomcat 

-      McDonnell-Douglas   F-15  Eagle

 

25.              Great Fighting Jets       Time-Life Video 1991

-      F-5  Freedom Fighter

 

26.              Great Fighting Jets       Time-Life Video 1988

-     Boeing  B-52  Stratofortress

 

27.              Great Fighting Jets       Time-Life Video 1991

-      McDonnell-Douglas    F-15    Eagle

 

28.              Video Profile    Aviation Video International (AVI)

                   -      Boeing B-29 Superfortress

 

29.        The Story of The Hurricane 

 -     (Castle Communications  1992)

 

30.              The Boomerang Story

-          (Nomad Television Productions)

 

31.              (1)   Navy Lynx

                   (2)   RAAF Orion PC3

                   (3)   Hawker Siddeley Hawk

             (4)   Hawker Harrier

             (5)   Dynamic F-16

             (6)   Hawker Siddeley – Heavy Engineering

             (7)   Ultimate Flight

                   (8)   Aircraft In Agriculture

             (9)   History of The Helicopter

 

32.        (1)   Flight of The Southern Cross – Arranged by Fred Stanley 1943

                   (2)   RAAF -  New Guinea -  No. 30  Squadron

                   (3)   “Blackjack” Walker’s Memorial Service 1997

                   (4)   Qantas Charles Kingsford Smith Lecture  26/9/88

             (5)   Flight Plan – Historic Footage from Dept. Civil Aviation

             (6)   Wallaroo 605  (A small Australian passenger aircraft)

 

33.              Copy of a video tape prepared by Keith Manwring December 2001 (a member of Australian Aviation

                    Museum – Bankstown)  -  Recorded from a computer using a flight simulator etc.

 

34.        Strange Planes   -    Aviation Video International  (AVI)

                        -   Drones, Midgets & Mutations

                        -   Parasites

                        -   Eye in The Sky

                        -   Giants

                        -   Vertical Take-off

 

35.              (1)   The De Havilland Mosquito

                   (2)   Vickers Wellington

                   (3)   The Story of The Spitfire

                   (4)   Rise of The Phoenix – Australian restoration of a Consolidated B-24 Liberator

                   (5)   The Townsville Skyshow – August 1995

 

36.        (1)   A home video of a group of Australians on a visit to Pearl Harbour, Seattle, Oshkosh, Arizona and

                     various air museums – 1989.

             (2)   The Ansett Story

       (3)   A Matter of Balance – Air Transport And The Environment (ATAG – Air Transport Action Group)

 

37.        (1)   Townsville “Skyshow”   Aug 1995

             (2)   1992 International Airshow - Avalon, Victoria (An “our World” TV Special)

             (3)   “Wings on The Desert”  The PIMA Air & Space Museum – Tucson, Arizona - 1995 (Located near

                           the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base)

 (4)  “Spacewalker”  Light private aircraft.

 (5)   The Restoration of a Curtis Jenny aeroplane in the USA (A National Geographic Special)

(6)     A re-enactment of the 1919 Vickers Vimy flight from England to Australia

(7)     Jack Curtis (well known to the Australian Aviation Museum – Bankstown) flying a restored

     Wirraway trainer at Bankstown Airport.

 

38.        (1)   A home video of a group of Australians on a chartered flight to the 1989 Oshkosh USA Fly-in

                        and  visits to US air museums.

             (2)   “Airplaneski”  -  Russian civil aviation (copied from a very poor quality video recording)

 

39.              (1)   The Story of The Avro Shackleton.

                   (2)   The Story of The C.A.C. Boomerang.

                   (3)   The movie “Always” – The aerial water bombing of US forest fires.

 

40.              (1)   The movie “Flying Tigers”  - 1942 – staring  John Wayne, John Carroll & Anna Lee.

(2)   The movie “The Lost Squadron” staring Richard Dix, Mary Astor, Eric von Stroheim & Joel                    McCrea.

(3)   Top Gun – The story behind the story = 1987 – The Naval Fighter Weapons School.

 

41.              (1)  Riding A Tiger - Tiger Moth Flight 1948 - Bankstown & South.

     - Pilot A. W. Mair  Photographer A. R. Cusack .     

 (2)  The Restoration of a Wirraway.

 (3)  RAAF Video - Australia's NASMA  (Plans for a national aviation museum at Point Cook, Victoria.

 (4)  RAAF Video:   1 AD 1921 - 1994

             (5)  Classic Aeroplanes In Australia.

             (6)  Flight of The Felix (The restoration of a Catalina and its flight to Australia.)

             (7) Warbirds Over Wanaka, New Zealand, 1996

 

42.              (1)  The RAAF Roulettes (Terry Willesee 13/4/87).

(2)  Rise Like A Phoenix - Documentary about A68-1, the first Mustang fighter built in Australia

                            (13/4/87).

             (3)   The first Australian Blackhawk Helicopter at H.D.H. (SBS News 14/4/87.

                   (4)   Solo to the top of the World – Documentary on Dick Smith's 1985 attempt to fly a helicopter

                      to the North Pole - ABC TV 2/5/87.

 

(5)   The Augusta A129 Mangusta (Mongoose) Helicopter (A Beyond 2000 Report)

             (6)   Westland Helicopters P.R. Film : W-30 Combat Transporter  - Maritime

                     Transporter  - Maritime Helicopters - Orient Express (HMS Invincible 1985 - 89).

             (7)  The X-Wing (A Beyond 2000 report)

             (8)  Beyond 2000 Report on Farnborough 88 & the Eurofighter.

             (9)  Delivery of the first Australian Blackhawk  A25-102 (Channel 7 News).

 

43.              Clash of Wings (1939 – 1942)  – Disk 1 of 2

-  A comprehensive series detailing the Air War of the Second World War.

 

(1)    (a)  The Bluff is called - "Blitzkrieg" (b)  The Plunge Into Reality – “The Battles of France & Britain"

(2)    (a)  Hitler's Biggest Gamble - "The Russian Front" (b)  Wings of The Rising Sun - "The Pacific War"

(3)    (a) The African Tutorial  "The Mediterranean Theatre"  (b)  Germany's Third and Last Chance

        - "The Battle of the Atlantic"

 

 

44.              Clash of Wings (1943 – 1945)– Disk 2 of 2

-  A comprehensive series detailing the Air War of the Second World War.

 

 (1)   (a)  The Biggest Battleground - "The War in the Pacific Islands"  (b)  The Cost of Incompetence

            - "The Allied Dominance in the Pacific"

 (2)   (a)  Round the Clock Bombing - " The Allied Bombing Campaign of Germany" (b)  Air Superiority

            Lost and Won. "Allied Might versus German Technology".

(3)      True Airpower - "Firebombing of Japan and the Atomic Bomb"

(4)      The Bombers – “The Evolvement of the Bomber in WWII”

 

45.               (1)  (2) & (3)  Four Years of Thunder - The First World War in the Air.

 (4)    1989 Hawker de Havilland Corporate Video.

              (5)    Delivery of the First Three PC-9's to the  RAAF's Roulettes.

              (6)    PC-9's at Bathurst 1989.

              (7)    PC-9's at the Adelaide Grant Prix 1990.

              (8)    Ballarat Air Show 1990

              (9)    Farewell to a Lady - HMAS Melbourne (The  Aircraft Carrier).

              (10)   PC-9 Roulettes Smoke Generator Installation.

              (11)   Handover of the last PC-9  to the Roulette Display Team - 7 May 1992.

              (12)   PC-9  "05"   Air to Air Footage.

 

46.               (1)   Germany’s War – The Battle of Britain.

                    (2)   Wings of The Storm  (The World War II Bombing of Germany)

                    (3)   The Supermarine Spitfire.

 

47.         (1)  -  Blackjack's Last Mission (A US WWII Aircraft)

                   -  The (US) Confederate Airforce.

                   -  Wings – The Jet Age

                    (2)  Just Australian Planes (Complete version).

              (3)  -  McDonnell Douglas Helicopters.

                   -  "Top Cover" - from ABC's The Big Picture.

                   -  The RAAF Roulettes (ABC's 4 Corners).

              (4)  The Australian Naval Aviation Museum – Nowra.

 

48.         (1)  Spitfire Diamond Jubilee

                    (2)   Farnborough International '96

                    (3)  Future Combat Aircraft

              (4)  The Jet Wars (Great Air Battles Vol. 4

 

49.         (1)  Consolidated Catalina PBY  (Great Planes Series)

              (2)  "Chopper"   (Copied from ABC Discovery series)

              (3)  Touch The Sky - The Blue Angels (with Christopher Reeve)

              (4)  Chopper Fury (Great Air Battles Vol. 2)

                    (5)  WWII - Pacific (Air Combat Series)

 

50.         (1)  The History of The Royal Air Force (Narrator Richard Todd)

                      (a)   The Birth of The RAF (1918 - 1945)

                      (b)  Into The Jet Age  (1945 - 1965)

    (c)  New Horizons  (1965 - 1996)

              (2)  The History of The RAF (Network Entertainment)

 (3)  Solo Woman - Gaby Kennard

 

51.         (1)  The Australian Bicentennial Air Show 1988

              (2)  RAAF 70th Anniversary Air Show 1991

  (3)  The Australian International Air Show 1992

  (4)  The Australian International Air Show Down Under 1997

 

52.               (1)  Australian Aviation - The Magnificent Years 1920s - 1970s

              (2)   Classic Aeroplanes in Australia - Jeff Watson

              (3)  Aviation Profile - Australian Warbirds

              (4)  Spitfire Over Australia - Jeff Watson

              (5)  The RAAF Roulettes -   Info-Commercial

 

53.         (1)  Against All Odds - The Story of Fighter Command During World War II

              (2)  Wings of World War II

              (3)  Spitfire Diamond Jubilee Air Show

              (4)  Farnborough International '96

              (5)  Future Combat Aircraft - Tomorrow's Fighting Aircraft in Colour

 

54.                      A Century of Flight - Disk 1 of 4  (Originally from Foxtel History Channel Nov 01)

                              -   The Coming of The Jets

                              -   Cold War Skies

                              -   The Helicopter Story

-   Korea To The Gulf

                              -   Naval Aviation 1945 - 1995

                              -   The Shadow of The Bomber

                              -   Struggle For The Skies (Start)

 

55.        A Century of Flight - Disk 2 of 4 (Originally from Foxtel History Channel Nov 01)

                              -   Struggle For The Skies (End)

                                -    Air Power & Armies 1939 - 1949

                              -   Air Power & Navies 1939 - 1941

                              -   The Bomber As War Winners

                              -    Angels of Mercy

-   The Parachute Story 

                              -   Law Enforcement From The Air 

                              -   Man Learns to Fly 1900 - 1914 (Start)

 

56.        A Century of Flight - Disk 3 of 4 (Originally from Foxtel History Channel Nov 01)

                                -   Man Learns to Fly 1900 - 1914 (End)

                             -   Embracing The World

                               -   The Spectacle of Flying

                               -   Anyone Can Fly

                               -   Madcaps & Odd Balls

                               -   High Above The Trenches

                               -   Wings Over The Sea

                               -   Strike From The Air (Start)

 

 57.      A Century of Flight - Disk 4 of 4 (Originally from Foxtel History Channel Nov 01)

                -   Strike From The Air (End)

                              -   The Trail Blazers

                              -   The Romance Of The Air

                              -   To The Farthest Corners Of The Globe

                              -   To The Moon And Beyond

                              -   The Future of Flight

 

                          United States One

         

58.          -    Pearl Harbour – December 7, 1941 – The Rise & Fall of The Japanese Empire (Filmed 1942)

               -    Pearl Harbour Payback – (Filmed originally in 1945)

               -    Pearl Harbour – December 7, 1941 – Iwo Jima   (Filmed originally in 1942)

              

59.       Reaching for The Skies        Disk 1 of 2

                     (a)  -   Pioneers

                     -   Balloons & Airships

                     -   The Aeroplane Goes to War

               (b)  -   Bombers

                     -   Quest for Speed

                     -   Victory Over The Sea

 

60.     Reaching for The Skies        Disk 2 of 2

              (a)  -   Rivals Over The Atlantic

                          -    The Adventure of Flight

                    -    Trail Blazers

 

              (b)  -    Giants of The Air

                    -     Fighters

                    -     Vertical Flight

 

61.        Air Power Series

              -  Test Pilot

                    -  Air Superiority

                    -  Vertical Flight

                    -  SR-71  Blackbird

                    -  Air Show

                    -  Flight Deck

                    -  Fighter Pilot

 

62.        1.   Airshow Downunder  ‘95

2.      Airshow:  Flight 2001  (Avalon – Australia)

3.      Appointment in Tokyo (Filmed originally in 1945)

4.      Nimrod – The Mighty Hunter (Direct Video)

5.      Flyers  (Filmed for Imax Theatres)  -  Fictional

6.      Holes in Heaven – The US HAARP Program  (Not completely recorded)

 

63.        1.   Wings of The Jet Age 

2.      Wings Over The World (Television Series)

3.                  Arctic Warriors (Air Power Series)

4.                  Combat Cameraman & Chopper Pilot (AVI Modern Air Power Series)

5.                  Bell UH-1  (Aviation Profile)

 

64.        1.    The Wing Will Fly – The Story of Jack Northrop

2.       TAA 50th Anniversary 1996 (8 minutes)

3.    Keep it Going – A Guide to Airworthiness )  Civil Aviation Authority - Australia

4.    P-47 Thunderbolt (Roaring Glory Warbirds Series)

5.    P-38 Lightning (Roaring Glory Warbirds Series)

 

65.         A Century of Flight    Disc 1  of  4     Those Daring Young Men

               1.      Introduction

               2.      Kill Devil Hill

               3.      Imitating The Birds

               4.      Birds of Prey

               5.      Knights of The Sky

               6.      Hat in The Ring

               7.      Zeppelins Over London

               8.      The Big Push

               9.      Postmen

              10.     Barnstormers

              11.     Record Setters

              12.     Highway in the Sky

              13.     Credits

66.     A Century of Flight    Disc 2  of  4     Hawks & Doves

               1.      Introduction

               2.      The Army Airforce Strikes

               3.      The Turning of the Tide

               4.      Hit’em Where it Hurts

               5.      Nazi Bridges Falling Down

               6.      Credits    

 

67.     A Century of Flight    Disc 3  of  4     The Space Race

               1.      Introduction

               2.      The First Steps

               3.      Supersonic

               4.      Let The Games Begin

               5.      Project Mercury

 

68.     A Century of Flight    Disc 4  of  4     Bonus Material

               1.      The F-22:  Safeguarding the Future

               2.      Chuck Yeager:  The Fastest Man Alive

               3.      Memphis Belle:  A Story of a Flying Fortress

               4.      Round The World By Airplane

               5.      Sixteen Minutes From Home:   Remembering the Heroes of the STS 107

 

69.    1.      Sink The Bismarck  (Movie)

               2.      Curtiss Kittyhawk – The Story of a Famous Fighter  (Jeff Watson)

               3.      Red Stars Rising – Warbirds Over Wanaka – Easter 1998

               4.      Red Flag (Aviation Week / Video Magazine)

               5.      The Battle of Britain: The Truth

               6.      WWII:  Europe  (Air Combat Series)

 

70.          1.      EAA Oshkosh  '94

               2.      The World's Aerobatic Teams  (Air Power Seies)

               3.      Letece Zvezde Flying Stars   (Yugoslavia's Aerobatic Team)

               4.      Boeing 707 (Great Planes Series) - From pre release copy. 

               5.      DC3 / C47 Dakota (Great Planes Series) - not complete

               6.      Fighters (Brute Force Series)

               7.      The Century of Warfare - Air War 1939-1945

               8.      Australia Day 1995 – Bankstown  City Council Celebrations

 

71.          1.      Wellington – Blenheim (Famous Planes Series)

               2.      Lancaster – Flying Fortress (Famous Planes Series)

               3.      P38 – Lightning  (AVI Great Planes Series)

               4.      Messerschmitt Me 262

               5.      F-86 Sabre  (Great Planes Series)

               6.      Tornado  (Great Fighting Jets Series)

 

72.          1.      Warbirds Over Wanaka - 2000

               2.      Classic Fighters – Marlborough (NZ) Airshow 2001

               3.      Ghost Squadron – The Confederate Air Force

               4.      Ghost of The Sky – The restoration of a B-25 in California and

                       its flight to Australia

 

73.           War Trains  (Volume 3)   -    Air Attacks

 

74.          Great British Airshows  -  Disk  1  of  3

-  The Biggin Hill International Air Fair 2006

75.          Great British Airshows  -  Disk  2  of  3

-  The Farnborough International Air Show 2006

 

76.          Great British Airshows  -  Disk  3  of  3

-  Woodchurch  Wings & Things 2005  

 

77.          (a)   By The Seat of Their Pants  -  “A fascinating look at Australia’s Aviators” 

 (b)  Attack Force – The Harrier.  Featuring The Falklands conflict and the history of V/Stol  Flight.

 

78.     Target for Today -  The Mighty 8th Air Force (US) Over Germany (movie)