Empire Air Training Scheme - RAAF Ballarat Flying began in 1914 at the site of what is today the Ballarat Airport in Victoria but military flying did not commence until World War Two. The RAAF airbase was established there in 1940 with No. 1 Wireless Air Gunners School (WAGS) under the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) using Avro Anson multi…
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Part of a vertical photographic-reconnaissance aerial showing severe damage to the Braunkohle-Benzin syhthetic oil plant at Zeitz near Leipzig, Germany, one month after a raid by 328 Avro Lancasters of Nos. 1, 6 and 8 Groups, Bomber Command, on the night of 16/17 January 1945.
Annotated vertical aerial photograph taken during a 'Circus' operation by a combined force of Bristol Blenheim Mark IVs drawn from Nos. 21, 105 and 110 Squadrons RAF, which attacked the Etabs. Kuhlmann chemical factory at Choques, France.
The Avro Arrow
Avro CF-105 Arrow Magnet
Avro Recreation Club
Photographic negative
Vertical aerial photographic-reconnaissance view of the flying-bomb assembly and launch bunker at Siracourt, France, following the attack made by Nos. 1 and 4 Groups on 22 June 1944.
Still from film shot by the RAF Film Production Unit during the first of two daylight attacks on Cologne by aircraft of Bomber Command on 2 March 1945. An Avro Lancaster flies over the bomb-scarred city during the highly-destructive morning raid, which caused many casualties in the city.
Part of a vertical photographic-reconnaissance aerial showing wrecked and damaged buildings of the Breguet aircraft factory at Toulouse, France, following the accurate raid by aircraft of No. 5 Group, Bomber Command, on the night of 5/6 April 1944. The main assembly shop (centre right) is destroyed and much of the sheet metal and dope shop (lower left) is demolished.
Annotated vertical photographic-reconnaissance aerial taken over Auderville on the Cap de la Hague peninsula, France; the first of a series of reconnaissance photos which provided evidence that the Germans were employing early-warning radar.
Vertical aerial photograph showing bombs exploding on the aviation-fuel storage depot at Dugny, near Paris, during a daylight attack by 98 Avro Lancasters and 5 De Havilland Mosquitos of Nos. 1 and 8 Groups.
Enlargement of a vertical photographic-reconnaissance aerial, showing damage to the main diesel-engine assembly workshop in the MAN factory at Augsburg, Germany, following the notable low-level attack by Avro Lancasters of No. 5 Group, Bomber Command on 17 April 1942.
After seven years circling the skies in search of a safe haven, the former Toronto Aerospace Museum has finally touched down with its historic aircraft collection at Edenvale Aerodrome.
Handley Page Halifax Mark II Series 1s of No. 10 Squadron RAF based at Melbourne, Yorkshire, gain height in the failing evening light while outward bound on a raid to Turin, Italy.
