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AIR  FORCE  MUSEUM HOBART

RAAF  ASSOCIATION TASMANIA
61 Davey Street, Hobart, Tas. 7000.

 History of the RAAF

FROM...


Bristol  Boxkite beginnings...
[Photo by Air Marshal Retd. Jake Newham.  Taken at Point Cook, Victoria, exactly 100 years - to the minute! - after the first military flight in Australia's history.]

TO...


The Jet Age!

And everything in between!

TASMANIAN  AIRMEN


Some Tasmanian members of the Australian Flying Corps – WW1
Hudson FYSH, KBE DFC [founder of QANTAS];  Oliver LEE, MC;  Syd ADDISON OBE;  Jack BUTLER;  Cli PETERS, DFC;  Allan BROWN DFC; Frank HEADLAM. 
 

BIOGRAPHIES, MEDALS AND HONOURS


Air Vice-Marshal Brian EATON, CB, CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC.
Australia’s Most Decorated Fighter Pilot.
 


Flight Lieutenant Stuart Crosby WALSH.  - Killed in the Battle of Britain 1940.
 


Wing Commander Bill FALKINDER, CBE, DSO, DFC & Bar.  WW2 Pathfinder.
 

AUTHENTIC FLYING SUITS

 
1914  - 2014
 

EXTENSIVE UNIFORM AND PHOTOGRAPHIC DISPLAYS


Uniforms in the RAAF Memorial Centre Museum Hobart.
 


Photographs in the RAAF Memorial Centre Museum Hobart.
 


 

TECHNOLOGY

SOME INTERESTING EQUIPMENT
FROM WORLD WAR TWO


Inside a Lancaster Bombsight
 


Fighter Gunsight
 


Aircraft Sextant
 

RAAF MEMORIAL CENTRE
RAAF  ASSOCIATION
61 Davey Street, Hobart, Tas. 7000.

OFFICIAL RE-DEDICATION BY THE GOVERNOR OF TASMANIA - 29 JULY 2016.

Open by arrangement: https://raafatas.org.au/about/hobart-memorial-centre/the-raaf-memorial-centre-museum/

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