John Heaton Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 As we have Kingsford Smith's Southern Cross Ford Trimotor sitting in a special building at Brisbane airport - and soon to be in our flight sim - courtesy of Orbx - maybe Orbx could just look at another Aussie Legend Also sitting in another airport building - only this time in Adelaide airport -- is the actual aircraft to make the first flight between England and Australia in 1919 - and is a Vickers Vimy WW1 bomber - flown by 2 Australian brothers Sir Ross and Keith Smith The aircraft is being re-furbished and will be back on show in the new Adelaide terminal building in approx. 2 months 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Scott Harmes Posted January 20, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 20, 2022 Great to see this famous aircraft will be pride of place at the new terminal. I stumbled across this plane one day when wandering around Adelaide airport while waiting for a flight, having no idea it was there previously. It is/was currently in an outdoor display building which is at the rear of the airport near the outdoor car park, it could even be the staff car park. I spent a good hour or two checking it out and didn't see another person there the whole time. My sister and brother in law who live near Adelaide had no idea it was there, and I would be surprised if many of the locals knew it was there. I always thought it was a fascinating looking plane, and was blown away when I saw it up close. Seeing it in person I was even more astounded at the flight that it made in it in 1919! 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifejogger Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 It is nice to see classic aircraft being rebuilt. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniper31 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Wow! Great photos of such a classic and vintage aircraft. It's always amazing to see what the early air crews flew in those days compared to what is available now. Landon 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanderlay Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 I remember reading once that they never knew this as Echo Alpha Oscar Uniform, or whatever the phonetic alphabet was at the time, they knew it as God (h)Elp All Of Us. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 8 hours ago, vanderlay said: I remember reading once that they never knew this as Echo Alpha Oscar Uniform, or whatever the phonetic alphabet was at the time, they knew it as God (h)Elp All Of Us. Ah, interesting. Maybe a stupid question, what stands the G for? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Heaton Posted January 21, 2022 Author Share Posted January 21, 2022 53 minutes ago, wolfko said: Ah, interesting. Maybe a stupid question, what stands the G for? Great Britain - as in current GB for GB registered A/C 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Clarke Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Correction. G- is the UK registration for A/C not GB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_aircraft_registration 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Heaton Posted January 21, 2022 Author Share Posted January 21, 2022 2 hours ago, Jon Clarke said: Correction. G- is the UK registration for A/C not GB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_aircraft_registration Of course Jon - you are correct - maybe I should have made it clearer - G- as in B - or d or E etc Maybe you or someone else can explain why Australian Regos always start with a VH- 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smudger Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 2 hours ago, John Heaton said: why Australian Regos always start with a VH- Cannot verify but What does VH stand for on Australian aircraft? Victor Hargraves During HARS tours, the question occasionally is asked “what is the significance or history of the VH prefix on Australian registered civil aircraft”? Often someone will explain that it's the initials of the famous Australian aviation person Victor Hargraves. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wain71 Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 apparently VH was given at a conference in Washington in 1927, ICAN, Australia never had a seat there, I could be wrong though..... Amazing pictures by the way, always amazed at these old planes, how they flew such distances and so unprotected..... this plane below is in the museum up at what was BAE Filton, I think it says about it flying at like 16000ft and I thought that must have been amazing in the open like that... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigermothpilot Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 John Heaton, just a small correction. Kingsford Smith's aircraft isn't a Fort Trimotor, it's a Fokker F.VIIb/3m trimotor monoplane. It was previously owned by the great Australian explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins. And, referring to the registration of the Vimy, Ross and Keith Smith jokingly said it stood for God 'Elp All Of Us. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Heaton Posted January 22, 2022 Author Share Posted January 22, 2022 Oh dear ! that's 2 corrections to errors I have made in this thread Time I went to bed I think - before I crash and burn However - speaking - of crashing -- and VH regos - you all will notice my avatar is a PA 32 that I owned in the late 70s before I switched to a Saratoga - and she was VH - MVT The Bloke who bought it from me - managed to end up at the end of the runway at Aldinga S.A. ( the free AP from Auscene) I believe she was written off -(but I could be wrong ) ----Here's what was left of her 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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