Comments on: Dreaming war, seeing aeroplanes — I

By: A little air war booty

A little air war booty — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:01:00 +0000

[...] the top left of the poster is a Friedrichshafen FF.33; in fact it is the very one which scouted for the raider Wolf during its voyage into Australasian waters in 1917, Wölfchen ('Little wolf' or rather 'Wolf's cub'). But what about the two people in the lower [...]

By: Airminded · Fear, uncertainty, doubt — VI

Airminded · Fear, uncertainty, doubt — VI — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:42:13 +0000

[...] and merchant raiders like SMS Seeadler (wrecked in the Society Islands in 1917) and above all SMS Wolf. The Wolf's activities in southern waters in 1917 caused quite a shock. At first, the RAN strongly [...]

By: Airminded · Fear, uncertainty, doubt — V

Airminded · Fear, uncertainty, doubt — V — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:10:00 +0000

[...] leading newspapers, wrote on 25 March 1918 that the defence authorities are inclined to laugh at the story told by Police Constable Wright, of Ouyen, that at Nyang on Thursday last [21 March] he saw two aeroplanes flying in a westerly [...]

By: Airminded · When, what, where?

Airminded · When, what, where? — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:39:43 +0000

[...] course of the 1918 scare itself was wrong. Based on reports published in newspapers, I thought it started in March and ended in mid-April. In fact, it was only getting started: the majority of sightings took place [...]

By: Airminded · Mystery aircraft and airmindedness

Airminded · Mystery aircraft and airmindedness — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:50:42 +0000

[...] more briefly, I'll be looking at the 1918 Australian mystery aircraft scare and trying to place it into the context of what was happening at [...]

By: Airminded · Smithy and the mystery aeroplane

Airminded · Smithy and the mystery aeroplane — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 01:12:25 +0000

[...] of the Gosford police noted in his first report, The rumour that a seaplane was seen over Sydney in connection with the German raider "WOOLF" [sic] will be remembered and this is a likely locality for a seaplane to hover and locate ships in [...]

By: Airminded · Anxious nation? — VI

Airminded · Anxious nation? — VI — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:41:22 +0000

[...] on the scale of 1918. There needs to be a plausible reason for aircraft to be flying about: and the reported visit of the Wolf and its Wölfchen to Australian shores provided that, though the desperate situation of the Allied armies in France was also a [...]

By: Airminded · Dreaming war, seeing aeroplanes — III

Airminded · Dreaming war, seeing aeroplanes — III — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:11:19 +0000

[...] fall on the Navy. The official history of the Navy in the war has this to say: In 1918 the news of the Wolf’s doings of the year before, the possibility that Germany might get a successor to her through the blockade, and the widespread [...]

By: Airminded · Dreaming war, seeing aeroplanes — II

Airminded · Dreaming war, seeing aeroplanes — II — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 17:05:54 +0000

[...] know for a fact, it's hard to imagine that New Zealand's defences were in any better shape. As we've already seen, however, the government there took the reports of mysterious aeroplanes seriously. But it was also [...]