Distance

Last Trans-Australian Airways DC3 flight in Australia, from Brisbane to Miles, waits to take off at Eagle Farm Airport, Brisbane, 1968. Terminal visitors were instructed by the sign, 'Visitors to the airport are advised that discomfort can be experienced from jet engines when aircraft are taxiing from the terminal. To avoid jet blast visitors are requested to retire behind the glass walls of the lounge.' Slide by Allan Webb, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

Passengers boarding a De Havilland Dragon aircraft at Cracow. The gold mining town of Cracow, two days journey by road from Rockhampton, was established in the 1930s. Ron Adair’s Aircrafts Pty Ltd commenced flights to the town on 29 December 1930, in a way not dissimilar to today’s fly-in/fly-out services to the mining industry. From February 1934 Aircrafts Pty Ltd was one of a small number of aviation organisations subsidised by the Commonwealth through a Special Grant because of their services to the community.

Wallangarra Railway Station, 2003. The 375 km line between Brisbane and Wallangarra was opened in 1887. The journey time was over 10 hours. Photograph by John Young, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland