Episode Details

Guest: Phil Vabre and Maurice Austin

Host: Dave Homewood and James Kightly

Recorded: 13th of November 2015, at Essendon, Australia

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 30 seconds

In this episode, in the Wings Over Australia sub-series, co-hosts Dave Homewood and James Kightly are given a guided tour of The Airways Museum at Essendon Airport, Melbourne, by Phil Vabre and Maurice Austin. The museum is unusual as an aviation-themed museum that has no aeroplanes, but it more than makes up for it with fascinating display of technological wizardry from through the ages that has all contributed to various forms of aerial navigation and safety when flying across the vast continent of Australia, and around the world. Phil and Maurice demonstrate and explain the various eras of Airways technology in a most entertaining and hands on way.

The following photos should hopefully assist the listener in understanding the many items being discussed.

The Civil Aviation Historical Society’s Airways Museum at Essendon Airport, Melbourne, Victoria (JDK)

Our guides, Maurice Austin and Phil Vabre (DGH)

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