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Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Wackett Training Aircraft in Flight, c.1941
b&w photograph; 21.9 x 16.6 cm
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These Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) ‘Wackett’ Trainers, photographed around 1941, are part of the Library’s E.A. Crome collection of photographs on aviation (1914–2005). Lawrence Wackett (1896–1982), pilot, aeronautical engineer, aircraft designer and manufacturer, had earlier designed another training plane, the Wirraway, and designed a number of other very different aircraft both before and after the Second World War. See story
The National Library’s holdings of photographs of Australian aviation were strengthened in 2005, with funds donated by Ernest Alfred Crome, enabling the Library to undertake a project to document the contemporary Australian aviation industry, placing photographs of more modern aircraft alongside images of Wackett’s and others’ earlier designs.
October 2007 Volume XVIII Number 1
New Light on the Ballets Russes: The Hugh P. Hall Photographic Collection
Lee Christofis tells of a recent, stunning acquisition
Not Without Adversity: Sir Lawrence Wackett, Aircraft Pioneer
Christobel Mattingley considers the life of a great aviator and designer
‘Nervous Wreck Restored To Health’: Australian Press Advertisements During the Great War
Ian Warden investigates some imaginative wartime promotions in the Newspapers Collection
Finding Manning Clark in the letters
Roslyn Russell reads the historian’s correspondence in the Library’s Manuscripts Collection
‘BALLET ARRIVED ALL SERENE’: Cabling Ballet History
Richard Stone explores the history of the Ballets Russes tours to Australasia through old telegrams held in the Manuscripts Collection
Friends
A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia
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