Australia's first air wreck

Title: Australia's first air wreck
Creator: O'Neill-FitzSimons, Terence
Date: 2006
Type: Text; Journal article
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/45397
Identifier: vital:670
Identifier: ISSN:1030-7710
Abstract: The story of early aviation in Australia is enthusiastic expectations and recurrent frustrations, attended by no small danger to those intrepid aviators who lifted themselves skyward in an array of hot-air and gas-filled balloons. Sooner of later, something of a spectacular nature was bound to occur. When it did it was three Melburnians who, on two separate occasions through their aeronautical endeavour, visited social chaos upon the citizens of Sydney. In consequence of a misreporting of one of these events, an inexactitude crept into Australia's aviation history that this article aims to correct.; C1
Publisher: Melbourne Royal Historical Society of Victoria
Relation: Victorian Historical Journal Vol. 77, no. 1 (2006), p. 5-15
Rights: Copyright Royal Historical Society of Victoria
Rights: This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
Subject: 2103 Historical Studies; Air-wreck; Australia; Air-balloons; Civic
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