Moorabbin Air Museum

[Keith Webb]

Or to give it the correct name, Australian National Aviation Museum... has an excellent collection of aircraft, I spotted this great diorama with the standard C15A model next to the very real and very impressive Beaufighter.

[Keith Webb]

Here's the 1/32 model:



And the 1:1 version as seen through the restored front section of one of two Beauforts held in the collection:



Neither Beaufort is complete although they have enough parts to eventually build two static examples.

[motto]

Looks as though they have some dedicated and talented people down there.
I wish them well.

David

[Keith Webb]

They sure do, although the Beaufort cockpit was restored by Ralph Cusack and his team.
One of the things they will be doing more of is firing up some of the engines which will be worth seeing.

[Mike K]

I rode my push bike there more than once in the 1960's as a kid . The main attraction was a complete static display Mustang , they had a walkway rigged up over a wing so visitors could peek inside the cockpit . At the time there were a few relics of aircraft at the museum, nothing to rave about , but it was a beginning .

Around 1970 they had a airshow there , during the parachute jump display, a chute became tangled and the whole crowd watched in horror as he plummeted to earth . He managed to unbuckle the chute and he deployed his backup chute about 500 feet above the ground ..it was a close thing . The commentator on the loudspeakers at the show was Brian Naylor the channel 7 TV newsreader who later perished in the black Saturday bushfires .

Mike

[Tony Wheeler]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

Around 1970 they had a airshow there , during the parachute jump display, a chute became tangled and the whole crowd watched in horror as he plummeted to earth .

I remember going to that airshow with my father, I think Keith came too. I don't recall the parachute incident but I clearly remember seeing Mustang VH-IVI fly that day, it was the first warbird I'd seen flying and I was quite excited. I remember taking lots of photos with my cheap plastic lens Kodak camera, which was a hand-me-down from my sister, and when I got the B&W prints back from the chemist the Mustang was just a small blurry smudge! Sadly VH-IVI crashed a few years later with the loss of the pilot/owner.

[Scrivo18]

Back in 2005 There was a air show in Swanhill and I was lucky enough to be the first passenger up in the 2 seater Mustang and showed the pilot around the area :-)

WOW will never forget that as long as I live

Tim