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Old 16th November 2008, 07:15 PM
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Australian aviators honoured in Qantas A380 naming
November 16, 2008 - 7:12PM

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Charles Kingsford Smith, Reginald Ansett and the founders of Qantas will be among those to have the airline's A380s named after them, in a tribute to Australia's aviation pioneers.

To celebrate the national carriers 88th birthday, on Sunday Qantas announced the names of its fleet of 20 A380 aircraft.

Gaby Kennard, the first Australian woman to fly solo around the world, will also have one named after her.

Qantas chief Alan Joyce said that in choosing the 20 Australians honoured, the airline was "bringing aviation's past together with its future".

"Among them are Qantas founders Fergus McMaster, Paul McGinness and Hudson Fysh, who gathered at the Gresham Hotel in Brisbane and signed the formal papers to establish Qantas 88 years ago," he said.

"Others include engineers, inventors, navigators and business leaders but all are pioneers, and all are very deserving."

The airline's first A380, delivered in September, was named after Australia's first female pilot Nancy-Bird Walton.

Qantas expects to have taken delivery of three A380 by the end of this year, another eight by the end of 2009 and all 20 it has on order by the end of 2013.
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Old 16th November 2008, 08:38 PM
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Old 17th November 2008, 07:53 AM
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Old 17th November 2008, 08:58 AM
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I was at the naming ceremony at Essendon Airport for the TAA DC-9 VH-TJP " Sir Charles Kingsford Smith " Back around 1969.

His widow, Lady Kingsford Smith, came from her home in the USA for the ceremony.
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Old 17th November 2008, 09:53 AM
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for those who didn't see this in another thread, November addition of Australian Aviation in the Traffic section, the names of the next three QF A380's
VH-OQB,C,D was relieved.

VH-OQB Hudson Fysh

VH-OQC Fergus McMaster

VH-OQD Paul McGinness
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Should be Sir Hudson Fysh and Sir Fergus McMaster.
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Is the full list anywhere yet?

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* Nancy-Bird Walton – the first woman to fly a commercial aviation service in Australia.
* Hudson Fysh – one of the founders of Qantas and the airline’s first Managing Director.
* Paul McGinness – one of the founders of Qantas.
* Fergus McMaster – one of the founders of Qantas and the first Chairman of the Company.
* Lawrence Hargrave – inventor of the box kite, linking four of these together in 1894 to fly 16 feet.
* Charles Kingsford Smith – Australia’s most famous aviator, who made the first trans-Pacific flight from the USA to Australia in 1928, and founded Australian National Airways Limited.
* Charles Ulm – Co-pilot, on Kingsford Smith’s record-breaking trans-Pacific flight between the USA and Australia in 1928 and co-founder of Australian National Airways Limited.
* Reginald Ansett – Founder of Ansett Airways Pty Ltd.
* David Warren – Inventor of the Black Box Flight Recorder.
* Bert Hinkler – Pilot of first solo flight from Britain to Australia in 1928.
* John and Reginald Duigan – First Australians to design, construct and fly a powered aircraft, in 1910.
* Phyllis Arnott – First Australian woman to gain a commercial pilot’s license.
* Keith McPherson Smith and Ross McPherson Smith – winners of the famous ‘Air Race’ between London and Australia in 1919.
* Lester Brain – Piloted one of the first Qantas routes in 1925 and ferried the first wartime Catalina Flying Boat delivered by Qantas Empire Airways in 1941. Later appointed General Manager of Trans-Australia Airlines in 1946.
* Lores Bonney – First woman to fly solo around Australia in 1932 and the first woman to fly solo from Australia to England, in 1933.
* Norman Brearley – Founder of Western Australian Airways Limited, which operated Australia’s first scheduled air service on 5 December 1921.
* P G Taylor – Navigator and co-pilot alongside Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm on many record-breaking flights between Australia and the United States and England and Australia. Taylor was awarded the Empire Gallantry Medal in 1937 for one of the most revered acts of bravery in the history of aviation.
* Scotty Allan – Co-pilot alongside Charles Ulm and P G Taylor on the 1933 record-breaking flight from England to Australia and later joined Qantas and flew DH86 aircraft on the Brisbane-Singapore route.
* John Flynn – Founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
* Gaby Kennard – First Australian woman to fly solo around the world in 1989.
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Andrew - thanks for your help. None that I'd disagree with in the context, although it's a pity the list couldn't be longer.

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Not many of the above have ever been on an Australian airliner, except for Charles Kingsford Smith the only others I can recall are...


John Flynn...Various RFDS aircraft

Bert Hinkler...TAA B727-276 VH-TBR

Lawrence Hargrave.....TAA B727-276 VH-TBQ

Norman Brearley...MMA aircraft, not sure of the type.

Sir Reginald Ansett and Norman Brearley had a colourful working relationship

Can't be more helpful, my reference books are all in storage and I have to rely on memory
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No disrespect intended toward Nancy Bird-Walton, but it would be nice to see an aircraft also named after Miss Phyllis Arnott, the first woman pilot in Australia to gain a commercial pilot's licence, then known as the "B" licence, her licence number was B334. This was gained in a DH60 Gypsy Moth on 28 February 1931, 18 months after gaining her "A" (private) licence, again in a DH60 on 28 June 1929. Just a bit of trivia to note is that Phyllis' private licence was number A330.

This all occurred before Nancy Bird-Walton had begun to learn to fly.
Nancy receives alot more recognition because of her later achievements and as a result she became the more famous of the early aviatrixes.
The above was my post on the original thread on this subject a few weeks back.
Thanks Qantas!! for recognising Phyllis' achievement. Her descendants, some of whom were at the ceremony, were very proud.
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