Conversation with Butt Flanagan / [interviewed by Robert Isdale]. [1980?]

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Conversation with Butt Flanagan / [interviewed by Robert Isdale]. [1980?]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62543688

Interview about early days of Qantas as Longreach.

11 leaves ; 33 cm.

University of Queensland, UQ Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7820189

University of Queensland, UQ Library

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Isdale, Robert

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Flanagan, Butt.

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Qantas Airways.

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The Western Queensland Auto Aero Service Limited was formed in 1920 by two former Australian Flying Corps officers, W Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinness. The pair had become convinced that aeroplanes were the best method of covering the vast distances in north-western Queensland after the Defence Department commissioned them to survey an air race route from Longreach to Katherine, leaving supplies along the way. Their journey, undertaken in a Model T Ford, took 51 days and 2179km to com...