January 2012

1930s, Aerial theatre, Air defence, Australia, Civil defence, Periodicals, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics

Anxious nation? — I

At about 5.20pm on Friday, 29 July 1938, hundreds of people saw a mysterious aeroplane diving from high over Hobart. According to Pegasus, the Hobart Mercury‘s aviation correspondent, A large crowd collected near the corner of Liverpool and Murray streets, and traffic was impeded. The machine descended to a comparatively low level, yet not low

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