Seeking early 20's Aussie pilot ID

[siznaudin]

[ATTACH]246.vB[/ATTACH]Anybody tell me who this pilot is? Very likely taken in Adelaide, early 20's.

 

Aircraft is a DH6, engine an RAF1a fitted with stub exhausts - 2 blade prop. (most DH6's had 4 blade...). If you know nothing about DH6's operating in Australia, do yourself a favour and read Horrie Miller's book "Early Birds" (long out of print, unfortunately..). The passage describing a night flight in one of these, with cylinders glowing dull red and sparks from the exhausts casting a demonic light on the ocupants is a cracker!

 

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[siznaudin]

No-one's come up as yet with a suggestion for my mystery aviator, and in my ongoing search as to who it might be, this image has come to light.

 

It could possibly be the same kite, but I can't tie in the tailplane No. (C 372?) with any of the DH6's from the airforce of the day. :pout:

 

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[Guest graham lea]

Do you know where I can get a list of the names of australian pilots with licence numbers 1 to 60?

 

 

[siznaudin]

Do you know where I can get a list of the names of australian pilots with licence numbers 1 to 60?

First licenses in Oz were issued, I believe through the Royal Aero Club, London. First (RAeC # 1024) to one Richard Williams 12 Nov 1914.

Try to access "Flypast - a record of aviation in Australia" (Parnell/Boughton)

 

Go to page 23 and you'll get the first 18 licenses issued. Good luck with the other 42.

 

cheers, Geoff.

 

 

[Guest graham lea]

I once bought a busines from an Edwin Lindsay Rose who said he had a licence number around the 10- 20 area but it was a long time ago so I thought I would try up to 60..

 

Just doing this for myself and his family..

 

Graham

 

(Will see if the local library has Parnell but in bed to day after chemo yesterday)

 

 

[siznaudin]

"First licenses in Oz were issued, I believe through the Royal Aero Club, London. First (RAeC # 1024) to one Richard Williams 12 Nov 1914."

 

That's from Parnell & Boughton, but "The Aviators" by William Joy (ISBN 0 85558 011 9) gives one William Ewart Hart as holding the first, albeit without reference to the source of that claim.