There and Back dedicated to Aviation, Airmanship and the Craft of Flying - by Owen Zupp & Robert Brus

While the flight ‘There and Back’ has concluded, the journey is just beginning in many ways.

Another visit to the Temora Aviation Museum and another great day. No matter how often I visit this great collection of flying warbirds, I am continually impressed on many levels. The aircraft, facilities and professionalism of the crews are absolutely first class; but there is something more. The team at the Temora Aviation Museum doesn’t [...]

  At some point in my childhood, between converting Mum’s clothes-horse to a P-51 and sitting atop our garage with binoculars, I asked my father a fairly simple question, “What was a Tiger Moth like?” Starry-eyed, I awaited the reply that would define the sheer essence of aviation and the pioneer spirit. “The Tiger?” he [...]

Today, for something a little different, here’s a book review on a title that covers an often overlooked chapter in our aviation heritage; the Korean War. The book by Doug Hurst is appropriately titled, “The Forgotten Few”. I had the pleasure of first corresponding with Doug during his research for this wonderful book and subsequently [...]

Wartime experience and the technical development of aircraft made it obvious that air power had become an essential element in any military equation. In Australia negotiations between Army, Navy and Defence officials from 1917 to 1921 resulted in the Australian Air Force being formed on 31 March 1921, with approval to use the ‘Royal’ prefix [...]