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Western Mail (Perth), 1 March 1951, 10
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Introducing @TroveUFOBot

https://twitter.com/Airminded/status/1288659222431817729?s=20 I’ve made a new Trove bot to accompany @TroveAirBot and @TroveAirRaidBot: @TroveUFOBot. The name is somewhat misleading, since it doesn’t search Trove Newspapers for the keyword ‘UFO’ at all, which turns out to be a bad keyword. Firstly, it’s so short that it frequently turns up whenever the OCR is bad and a random […]

Australia, Tools and methods, Videos

The accidents of aviation history

Last Friday I was privileged to be at the Airways Museum for the world premiere of Out of the Blue? How Aviation Accidents Shaped Safer Skies: Centred on accidents in the vicinity of Sydney’s Mascot Aerodrome, this movie outlines developments in Australian aviation safety from the 1920s to the 1970s. It combines original research, interviews,

Australian Air Squadrons Fund leaflet
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AIR in the AJCP

This is the cover of a leaflet produced in 1916 by the Australian Air Squadrons Fund, the Australian arm of the Imperial Air Flotilla which raised funds around the British Empire for presentation ‘battle-planes’ for the Royal Flying Corps. My interest in it is not so much for its own sake, though I am struck

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