The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The mid-air collision of two Avro Anson aircraft, on a training flight from No. 2 Service Flying Training School (2SFTS) based at Wagga Wagga, resulted in this dramatic and successful crash landing. The two aircraft now locked together continued to fly; the trainee pilot in the upper Anson (N4876), Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Leonard Graham Fuller, found he could control the pair using the flying controls of his aircraft and the power of the engines from lower Anson (L9162). None of the crews were seriously injured in the collision; the crew of the lower aircraft, LAC Jack Hansen and LAC Hugh Fraser bailed out along with the observer from the upper aircraft, LAC Ian Sinclair. LAC Fuller successfully crash landed the two aircraft in a paddock near Brocklesby in southern New South Wales. On 18 March 1944 Fuller, by then a Flying Officer and recipient of the Distinguished Flying Medal (DFM), was killed in a flying accident at Sale while attached to No 1 Operational Training Unit (1OTU).
Rectangular shaped metal 'Roo Club' presentation plaque in blue case. The obverse of the plaque features a left facing kangaroo descending through a cloud under a full parachute. On the reverse is i
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 402066 Flight Lieutenant Ian Menzies Sinclair, 149 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, Australia and the United Kingdom, 1940-1944. Wallet 1 o
Mr Stanley Bruce, the High Commissioner for Australia in London, talking with 402052 Sergeant (Sgt) Leonard Graham Fuller. Sgt Fuller trained under the Empire Air Training Scheme in Australia and then
The mid-air collision of two Avro Ansons on a training flight from No. 2 Service Flying Training School (2SFTS) based at Wagga Wagga, resulted in this dramatic and successful crash landing. After the
The mid-air collision of two Avro Ansons on a training flight from No. 2 Service Flying Training School (2SFTS) based at Wagga Wagga, resulted in this dramatic and successful crash landing. After the
The mid-air collision of two Avro Ansons on a training flight from No. 2 Service Flying Training School (2SFTS) based at Wagga Wagga, resulted in a crash landing. After the collision the two aircraft
Rectangular shaped metal 'Roo Club' presentation plaque in blue case. The obverse of the plaque features a left facing kangaroo descending through a cloud under a full parachute. On the reverse is i
Mr Stanley Bruce, the High Commissioner for Australia in London, talking with 402052 Sergeant (Sgt) Leonard Graham Fuller. Sgt Fuller trained under the Empire Air Training Scheme in Australia and then
An outdoor group portrait of RAAF No 19 Pilots' Course at No 5 Service Flying Training School (5 SFTS), which began in February 1942 and was completed on 23 June 1942. The following are the successful
