Aircraft at Work
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Documentary (1966)
Production:
Malcom Otton (Productor)
Daniel Crombie (Director)
Bruce Hillyard (Photographer)
Barry Bowden (Sound Engineer)
Documentaty on air transport in Australia.
Also from this series:
Australian Commonwealth Film Unit
Boeing 727-76
Registration VH-TJA, c/n 18741. Delivered new to TAA on October 1964 with earlier livery The Nations Jetline. Sold to International Air Leases on October 1976, then entered service with Air Florida on December of the same year, and registered N40AF in 1977. Finally sold to Continental Airlines in July 1977 in where she serves until 1991, stored at Mojave and scrapped in 1993.
Vickers 756D Viscount
Unidentified registration for this Viscount in The Nations Jetline TAA's livery. In the background the 727-76 listed above is launched for taking off.
Lawrence Hargrave Box-Kite glider
Hargrave's inventions box kite (1893), was applied to gliders, and in October 1906 Alberto Santos-Dumont used the box-kite principle in his aeroplane to make his first flight. Until 1909 the box-kite aeroplane was the usual type in Europe.
Santos Dumont 14-bis (model)
Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Bristol Boxkite
The 1st aircraft of the company, based on the Farman HF.3.
Keystone LB-7
It seems powered by the Pratt & Whitney R-1690 Hornet rather than the Wright Cyclone, therefore listed as LB-7
Boeing F4B
Boeing F4B performing a bombing run already seen in Les bleus du ciel.
De Havilland DH60X Moth
Registration VH-UGJ, c/n 3. Ex G-AUGJ. Was with the Royal Aero Club of New South Wales (and its predecessors) from the time it was registered in 1927 until it crashed in October 1940
Unidentified Aircraft
US aircraft I guess, not found yet. Are the 2 in the foreground the same airplanes?
Vickers F.B.27A Vimy II
Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Avro 504J
Two Avro 504J of Major Norman Brearley who founded Western Australian Airways.
Bristol 28 Coupé Tourer
Registration G-AUDH, c/n 6115 on the left, and G-AUDG, c/n 6111 on the right. Both delivered to Western Australian Airways on November 1921.G-AUDH crashed Port Hedland 15.7.24. Parts were used to build G-AUDZ.Unidentified Aircraft in the background.
De Havilland DH50A
On the left.
Unidentified Aircraft flying on the right.
Fokker F.VIIb/3M
Registration 1985, G-AUSU, VH-USU, c/n 4954.
Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
De Havilland DH61 Giant Moth
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