The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
An advertising poster for Qantas Empire Airways designed by leading Australian commercial artist Walter Jardine in 1939. The poster depicts the Short "C" Class Empire flying-boat 'Cooee' taking off at Rose Bay, Sydney. This plane was part of the Qantas fleet during the early years of the Second World War; this kind of aircraft maintained essential air links with the UK. It was the first to fly the Sydney to Southampton route on 5 July 1938. The route took 4 days to cover, with Qantas crew changing to Imperial Airways crew in Singapore. When the Japanese attacked in the Pacific the aircraft was one of several cut off in Africa. In August 1942 Qantas transferred Cooee to the British airline BOAC, receiving another "C" Class aircraft in exchange. BOAC then used Cooee until the end of the war. It was broken up for scrap at Hythe in the UK in 1947.
QANTAS and Imperial Airways advertising poster. Starting in 1938 Qantas and Imperial (later British) Airways ran a thrice-weekly service from Sydney to Southampton, through Singapore, until the fall o
QANTAS and Imperial Airways advertising poster. Starting in 1938 Qantas and Imperial (later British) Airways ran a thrice-weekly service from Sydney to Southampton, through Singapore, until the fall
An advertising poster for Qantas Empire Airways designed by leading Australian commercial artist Rhys Williams c.1938. The poster depicts the globe laid flat divided into four areas with concentric c
Portraying the hangar of Qantas Airways. Sunderland flying boats are repaired here while at the same time, Qantas use it for their own aircraft. Some idea of this hangar can be gathered from the mason
Second World War propaganda poster designed for QANTAS by leading Australian commercial artist Walter Jardine. The image is a depiction of Australian soldiers and a Papua New Guinean in the valley of
Stoker Ian Campbell Croft (34578), HMAS Cerberus, and Pilot Officer Lindsay Gordon Skimming (26177), HMAS Moreton are depicted reclining on seats sleeping on board Flying Boat VH-ABG "Coriolanus" fro