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14 December 2003, 06:23 PM
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15 December 2003, 03:59 AM
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Presumably you have looked close to home?
Log on to www.naa.gov.au then select 'recordsearch' Check AWM25 85/21 AWM 27 311/88 NAA site A2023 A38/3/362 MP367/1 514/14/27 A2023 B217/3/80 (under Captive Balloons) In short, try various permutations of Balloon. Aerial Balloons gives Antone Apraxine in 1877-1881 Balloons....1914-1921 gives a few. Kite Balloons... gives others. As for books, sorry! |
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15 December 2003, 04:26 AM
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Late extra.
I found info on Arthur Vivian Burbury, of Tasmania, who was in the Balloon corps; had his cable parted and saved his balloon and himself. Later he got wings in 1 RFC, attacked balloons from the other side. POW. See www.vision.net/~dburbury/misc/avb_war.htm 2 page printout. |
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15 December 2003, 08:30 AM
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Just FYI:
I've known Capt. Eric "Winkle" Brown, RN, for years, but only recently learned that his father was a Great War airman. The elder Brown started as a balloonist but after watching a couple of gasbags being incinerated, decided that perhaps powered flight held greater attraction and made the transition. After the war he was active in reunion organizations and became friendly with Udet, et al. Eric became a Fleet Air Arm pilot and the world's champion carrier aviator with more than 2,000 arrested landings.
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