The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Parkes, NSW. c.1941-03. Astro navigational instruments lie on a table at the RAAF Astro Navigation School. Clockwise from bottom left is a chronometer, a Mark IX sextant, parallel rulers, a navigational computer to calculate wind drift and a bearing and distance plotter. (Original photograph album housed in the AWM Private Records Collection at PR00491).
Parkes, NSW. c.1941-03. Flying Officer (FO) Canham, an instructor at the RAAF Astro Navigation School, teaches navigational skills to trainees with the help of blackboard diagrams. (Original photograp
Parkes, NSW. c.1941-03. Trainees at the RAAF Astro Navigation School absorbed in study inside a classroom, their desks piled with books. (Original photograph album housed in the AWM Private Records Co
Parkes, NSW. c.1941-03. Bill Carrol (left) and 400188 Maurice Kennedy "Bill" Burnside sit at the control panel in the cockpit of an Avro Anson aircraft. The men are trainees at the RAAF Astro Navigati
Parkes, NSW. c.1941-03. A trainee at the RAAF Astro Navigation School sits at a desk at the front of a classroom. The blackboard behind him is filled with words of advice to the next course, such as t
Qld. 1944-09-19. Interior of a Martin PBM Mariner aircraft, serial no. A70-8, of No. 41 (Transport Sea) Squadron RAAF stationed at Cairns, in flight between Townsville and Cairns. Flying Officer V. R.
