Time Flies!

Forty weather balloons and a garden chair. What could go wrong? Based on the true story of the joy ride

TRANS-AUSTRALIA AIRLINES – HELICOPTER OPERATIONS IN THE ANTARCTIC (The following is an excerpt from the recollections of TAA Captain Peter

Making a Trans Australia Airlines (TAA) flight reservation…before computers!  In 1972 the TAA Reservations room located at 50 Franklin Street,

Originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, Claire Grant studied photography at University of Canterbury, and currently lives in Meanjin (Brisbane). Using

The TAA/Australian Airlines Museum at Airport West in Victoria houses hundreds of thousands of artefacts and memorabilia which highlight the

Ninety-one years ago, on 4 November 1930, my father, Oscar Garden, landed his second-hand de Havilland Gipsy Moth on a

EJ Connellan and Connellan Airways, the ‘world’s biggest little airline’ pioneered aviation from its base, ‘Townsite’ aerodrome, in Alice Springs

One hundred years ago the first aircraft, a tiny DH4 bi-plane, landed on a hastily cleared dirt strip in Alice

What Kurt Johannsen lacked in formal education, he made up for in natural ability becoming famous for his resourcefulness, inventiveness

The first Control Tower at Darwin’s military aerodrome, known then as ‘4-mile’ (now Darwin International Airport), was this simple open-sided