Connecting the Nation: A short thematic history of Australian civil aviation

• Main Author: Alison Wain (auth)
• Other Authors: Mitchell Whitelaw (auth), Jaya Keaney (auth), Tracy Ireland (auth), Paul Ashton (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: UTS ePRESS 2017
• Subjects: Aviation; Civil Aviation; Aviation History; Australia
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Aviation has played an important part in shaping Australia's culture and history through the course of the twentieth century. Australia embraced aviation from its earliest days, eagerly responding to its potential to cover a challenging country, to bring far-flung communities closer and to prov...