Every registered aircraft in Australia starts with a VH ( Victor Holyman) named after a aviation pioneer from Launceston. Also the main rd into Hobart Airport was named after him as well. Always enjoy your work Angus.
In 1927, the International Radiotelegraph Convention in Washington, USA produced a new table of Nationality and Registration markings for aircraft. These recommendations were adopted by ICAN in 1928, and Australia was allocated the default national identifier ‘VH’. Australian civil aircraft thus transitioned from the original British Empire registration markings and began displaying the nationality mark VH- from January 1929. It is a commonly held belief that the Australian national identifier VH- was a nod to the noted Australian aviation identity Victor Holyman? (Hargreaves?), however, the truth is far more mundane.
Hey Angus, I have lived in Tasmania my entire life, and I was never aware of this accident ever occurring! I have subscribed to your channel to learn more about our wonderful state! Thank you 😊
What an ace up your sleeve! I live close to the airport, and I was born in Tassie as were my parents and grandparents, but I had never heard of this. Thanks. Nice to learn something new about our past.
Great video Angus. I had absolutely no knowledge of the Hobart Airport air crash of 10 March 1946. Thank you for filling me in. Great to see Seven Mile Beach again in your videos. For those of us who left Tasmania long ago - I left in December 1992 - things like seeing Seven Mile Beach or Sandy Bay Road and other Tasmanian landmarks you have included in your videos means a lot. If you are ever looking for ideas for videos my grandmother used to tell me about the Queen Mary visiting Hobart a number of times during WW2 as a troopship, as well as digging air raid shelters in their backyard, and occasionally could hear Tokyo Rose over the radio. Apparently there was an April Fool's Joke played over the radio in 1944 that Hobart was expecting an air raid by the Japanese !
My family owned and operated ANA, I heard about this dreadful crash when I was 12 years old. "Wing your Way with ANA: was our motto. I learnt to fly too and had a Private Pilot's Licence at 17. I have heaps history of this airline
I was about to post something similar namely... There were briefly flights to Christchurch (possibly in the mid 1990s?), but they were stopped after about a year due to insufficent customers. So it was an "international" airport for a short time, if you think New Zealand qualifies as properly foreign.
@@Dave_Sisson Ah, i'd forgotten about the recent NZ flights. There were back in the 70's. Same time they'd let people get on the roof of the terminal to watch the comings and goings.
I was staying out at Seven Mile a few years ago and heard a plane take off at something like 3am. It was an odd time so I checked flight radar, and it was an aircraft heading to Antarctica. The plane regularly makes this trip and is an Airbus A319 which is capable of flying over, landing on the ice strip, and returning without refueling, it does about 20 flights per year during the Antarctic summer.
Howdy Angus, I grew up in Seven Mile Beach in the 60's and early 70's, asking we'd talk about the plane crash and ride our push bikes along the beach. These days I live in northern NSW, so it's interesting to watch your videos about Tassie, just watched the 1 about the Idiot Railway also, used to go up to the lookout fairly often, passing the tunnel and talking about it too. Love your work, take care, dude.
My dad loaded me onto a DC#3 in 1952 and brought me to Melbourne, where I stayed. There was a trip back to Launceston a few years later, also on a DC3. As a little kid I used to stand in our front yard and watch them fly over on their way to Essendon airport. They flew so slowly that I could go inside for a sandwich and come out again and still see the plane!
Hi Angus, I have only recently happened upon your channel and have been working my my way through the lot, great stuff. I'm a history buff as well and love finding rennants of our built past. Living at 7MB for the past 30 years, I'm familiar with the air crash, when there did you notice the large concrete block with a steel ring embedded up in the dunes where the emergency access from the runway to the beach is? I've often wondered if this was used to winch the forward remains of the aircraft out of the water. Keep up the good work, I'm looking forward to todays new episode release. Cheers
I remember my mum telling me about this when I was little I always think of it when I fly over seven mile beach all the time. Another great story. Thank you
Another great, informative video, Angus! Thank you for researching and sharing snippets of Hobart's historical past with us. I doubt many people (myself included) would ever have heard of this tragedy, otherwise. Looking forward to your next post.
I talked about this crash and the other one in 1958 with my Auntie. Her school teacher from Sorell School lost his life in this accident. She said she was told it was a flock of sea gulls that caused it. The other crash she talked about isnt documented very much. It was a DC3 freighter (C47) coming into land and crashed into the water and the crew waited to be rescued by 2 guys from Sorell in a small boat. She named the guys but I cant remember the names. The rumour was that a load of white goods shifted while the landing was being prepared for. Another source told me that the concrete bridge at Midway Point (1958?) was held up from completion until the plane could be floated through the gaps in the old wooden bridge and then was dragged onto the shore near the Cambridge Airport and slowly stripped for parts.
Was the airline ANA or Trans Australian Airlines or were they the same thing at that time? I know ANA became part of Ansett later. The photo of the sister registered VH-AES wears a TAA livery aircraft in the photo you show. Just curious to know.
Love these videos. Had know idea there was a crash at Hobart airport. My guess would be a bird strike. Espeacially from runway 12. The old DC-3 prop wouldn't have handled it like the turbine engines today
Jesus. Never heard about this one. interested to do some more research on it. Also can you cover the Richmond Gaol and convict built bridge. Been interested in that for some time.
Bit off topic, but Up above the Cascade Brewery on that tongue of land between Old Farm rd and Strickland Ave is the remains of an old water reservoir for the brewery. It's made of the same brick as The Female Factory. Optus built a tower right near it and sort of desecrated the place (bricks strewn everywhere) The main underground tank still holds water as I dropped a pebble in. Can be accessed from Maralyn Rd (off Strickland) I know they always drew their water from higher up, and not direct from the rivulet
Wow that’s very interesting! There’s the old reservoir up the top of Forest Rd too. I’ve been in there and got photos, but it’s been locked down since.
Great story , we were on 7Mile Beach in 2019 , too early to take hire car back and catch a flight so we took a stroll on the beach near the runway . I did see a couple of Gannets near the waters edge , being large birds i was thinking a plane wouldn't want to hit one of them , anyway i didn't know about that plane crash , very tragic .
Enjoying your vids Angus, but yeah. Unless you've got RePL, ReOC, AROC etc. and have jumped a lot of hoops, CASA are going to say you could have caused another disaster and potentially throw the book.
There has been other theories as well. A little out there but possibly feasible. And I am a few years younger than the crash though I have when a little boy flown into Hobart on a DC3, late 50s. The event was very well known in that period. Australia wide. Dont blame the plane,, DC3s seldom ever crash but are brought down by outside circumstances. The reason it was 4 hours late may well be part of that. And yes many are still working 70 years later.
There was another crash of a DC - 3 out of Cambridge Airport, this time into Pittwater. The aircraft was a freighter so not passengers were involved and this time the crash occurred immediately after takeoff with the cause being attributed to the pulleys containing the control wires separating from the fuselage leaving the pilots with no way of controlling the aircraft. The wreckage was dragged onto the shore adjacent to the airport and for many years one could scavenge along there finding small pieces of the wreckage.
On 8 August 1951 at around 9 p.m. local time, a Trans Australia Airlines Douglas C-47 Skytrain (registered VH-TAT) crashed into the sea shortly after take-off from Cambridge Aerodrome for a cargo flight to Melbourne, killing the two pilots. They had lost control of the aircraft due to a severe ice build-up ??? An old TAA pilot friend of mine assures me that the DC-3 took off with the elevator control locks still in place.
@@GrumpyOldMan2 Your version may be correct. What I do know is that it was a foul night. My father had just flown in from Essendon after a flight that he described as taking forever with the aircraft having to climb to get over weather then having to descend. The flight took much longer than it usually took. As he was leaving the airport the freighter was taxing out.
Yeah and the stupid pricks in authority at the time basically “handed” the invention to NEC or someone else to develop it to what the black box is today, Australia has lost so many opportunities to be a leader in Aviation but the dickhead Govrrnments of the time would not back these ideas and another “lost” opportunity I remember was when TAA ordered the Fokker Friendship, Fokker “offered” the Australian Government a partnership in production here in Australia as TAA was one of the first to order it but the weak as piss Government declined to take the”Risk” so we missed the opportunity for good, eventually the Dutch company gave it to Fairchild in the USA as the FH 227 Friendship and they manufactured it, look at Australia now we are going to be stuffed if another major war comes to the world we don’t manufacture anything half decent and at least in WW2 our domestic GM-H made aircraft engines and other military equipment along with Ford Motor Co in Geelong including small ships and the domestic airlines repaired for instance at Essendon Aerodrome USAAF planes damaged in the war but what could we do now if a war broke out? I tell you it would be sweet Eff-All, geez we don’t even have enough fuel to last us in Australia for more than a month because our storage facilities are just non existent and we rely on storage overseas, so what hsppens if a war breaks out? Can you imagine the shitloads of nuclear submarines operated by China torpedoing the Oil Tankers trying to bring fuel to Australia, man it would be suicide for the crews as the Chinese Submarines would be having a Field day as it would be nothing more than a”Turkey” Shoot!
Having just came across this again I have just seen a clip of a DC3 going down. Not enough speed and not getting the tail up may have been the cause. More so if it hit a big bird. 25 people are about the max load. Though one flew out of China with about a 100 jammed on board!
