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Mark Wilson began studying at the Taranaki Art School in New Zealand in 1994 then, in 2008, started work on 12 paintings of significant Qantas aircraft flying over iconic Australian […]
Tag Archives: Aviation History
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On 16 November 2020, Australia’s national airline, Qantas Airways, will turn 100 and to celebrate this incredible milestone Qantas Founders Museum has a number of activities planned for the day: […]
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Qantas Founders Museum is thrilled to announce that Qudos Bank will be a major sponsor of the Museum’s Celebration of the Qantas Centenary in 2021. Qudos Bank is one of […]
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Oct
FRANK McNALLY – AN ACCIDENTAL BONUS by Museum Curator Tom Harwood You don’t have to be around the early QANTAS story for long before you become aware of two photos. […]
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WHO WAS ARTHUR BAIRD? by Museum Curator Tom Harwood That’s a question he may have asked himself because he was born in Benalla, Victoria in 1889 as Wilfred Arthur Beard […]
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Dec
The first Qantas Round-the-World flight doesn’t rank as highly in the airline’s history as it possibly should. On December 20th, 1957, Lockheed Super Constellation VH-EAO “Southern Auora with Captain R […]
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On Monday 19 August 2019, Qantas Founders Museum will celebrate the 100th anniversary of a 51-day drive by three World War One veterans through Northern Australia which would lead to […]
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QANTAS FOUNDERS MUSEUM MEDIA RELEASE 7 August 2019 CELEBRATING A COUNTRY DRIVE THAT CREATED AN AIRLINE On Monday 19 August 2019, Qantas Founders Museum will celebrate […]
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‘THE FIRST SHALL BE LAST’ IS SUCH A SIMPLE IDEA… by Qantas Founders Museum Curator Tom Harwood It’d be difficult to find a more complicated story than the introduction of […]
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WORKING ON THE SUPER CONSTELLATION COCKPIT PROJECT By Project Manager Raymond Boak When the Super Constellation arrived on the back of a truck in May 2017, I was passing through […]