Helicopter maintenance on HMAS Tobruk, Darwin Harbour. Timor Crisis
Art ART91456 East Timor, 1999-2013Depicts an image of helicopter maintenance on HMAS Tobruk, Darwin Harbour during the East Timor Crisis.
Entropy; Fire practice Accession Number: ART91744
Description
Darwin experienced 64 air raids during the course of the second world war. There were several important wartime airfields established in the Northern Territory - Groote Eylandt, Gove and Millingimbi. Artist Bob McRae has investigated several sites of either crashed or wrecked warplanes in the Northern Territory and New South Wales. In his series of etchings he documented many of these sites. McRaw says: "As kids living in Rickdale, NSW, my brother and I would crawl through holes in the wire at Mascot Airport, then through the swamps to explore the wrecked Lincoln Bomber plane which was used for fire practice at the airport. The plane could be entered by portholes. The gun mount and control panels were still moveable and I remember looking through the perspex viewing ports. More often than not, when I mention this to blokes who might have seen it while driving along General Holmes Drive beside the airport, they remember it and confirm that they also had done what I had done - gotten through the wire, hidden when airport cars went past and explored the wreck."
Details
Accession Number
ART91744
Maker
Robert McRae
Classification
Art
Object Type
Print
Measurement
Overall
Medium
etching on paper
Date Made
2001
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
purchased 2002
Copyright
AWM Licensed copyright
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