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Photograph P10767.012 First World War, 1914-1918A Short Seaplane, with its engine running, is guided out from the beach by its ground crew before take-off .

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Captain Kilner, a prominent Royal Marine pilot in the Dardanelles, adjusts the observer's equipment before the Short Seaplane takes off on a sortie.
A Short Seaplane, with its engine running, is guided out from the beach by its ground crew before take-off .

Italy. c. November 1943. Flying Officer Maurice Hayes, a RAAF pilot from Sydney, NSW, carrying his parachute, scampers for his aircraft before taking off on a sortie over Italy.

The residence of Lieutenant (Lt) (later Captain) Thomas H Piper (left) near the port of Mudros on the island of Lemnos. The pilot on the right is unidentified. Note the COOEE sign attached to the wall

Western Desert, 28 October 1942. A Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk fighter aircraft, code CV-R, serial no. FR241, of 250 Squadron RAF taxies across the airfield before taking off on a sortie. Only a short time

Western Desert, North Africa. 16 December 1943. Portrait of Captain Dusan Stanic, Flight Commander of the Jugoslav fighters operating in the Western Desert, sitting in his cockpit before taking off on

View of the deck area of seaplane tender HMS Ark Royal. A Short Seaplane is on the upper deck, with another just visible in its hanger in the hold below.
