Okay, we've heard you... 🙂 The Call For Papers for Aviation Cultures Mk.VI conference is EXTENDED to 13 March 2022. There has been some confusion about our conference plan and call for papers... read on! A thread 🧵 1/

Back to some history work today. What fun! Writing about the intellectual and organisational background to why Royal Australian Air Force adopted sophisticated type-specific flight simulators in the 1950s. It feeds into my forthcoming Aviation Cultures Conferences Spotlight on 17 February. Pic: National Archives of Australia

A quick Sunday re-up of a fantastic, short, jog trot through the questions we’ll be discussing in the forthcoming Aviation Cultures Conferences Spotlight on Aviation Simulation, from Peter Hobbins. But it won’t be half as good without our lovely audience - aim to see you there! -JDK.

Announcing 'Air memories: new perspectives on aviation heritage'. A special issue of Historic Environment edited by Ashley Harrison Tracy Ireland and Sally Brockwell. Its a fascinating group of papers on #aviationcultures @AustICOMOS

Heritage of the Air Ashley Harrison @AustICOMOS Setting the scene for the volume is 'Materialities, mobilities and multiple modernities' by the coeditors.

Heritage of the Air Ashley Harrison @AustICOMOS Next @shanebreynard explores Canberra from the air

Heritage of the Air Ashley Harrison @AustICOMOS @shanebreynard Sandy Blair, Tim Hubbard and Kirsty Altenburg ask can air routes be approached as cultural routes or cultural 'landscapes'?

Heritage of the Air Ashley Harrison @AustICOMOS @shanebreynard Stirling Smith examines memories and archaeology of the Rose Bay Flying Boat base

Heritage of the Air Ashley Harrison @AustICOMOS @shanebreynard Neale Draper, Andrew Maland and Jeffrey Newchurch look at Kaurna heritage and RAAF Base Edinburgh

Heritage of the Air Ashley Harrison @AustICOMOS @shanebreynard In the Northern Territory, Fiona Shanahan looks at restoring and flying ultralights as heritage making

Heritage of the Air Ashley Harrison @AustICOMOS @shanebreynard Next up a fascinating case study of Sharjah airport by Khuloud Al Houli, Saif Al Bedwawi and Hafsa Tameez

Heritage of the Air Ashley Harrison @AustICOMOS @shanebreynard And wrapping up the special issue is Pru Black on the ecopolitics of aviation. Its a blockbuster issue of #avgeek #aviationcultures goodness and its all Open Access australia.icomos.org/publications/h…

Name the airliner. It's an unusual one, so appreciate genuine guesses and no reverse image search or cheating! If you know the image, DM for bragging points, but let others have a go.

The excitement of finding a World War II era Bendix MN-20E direction-finding loop at a prop sale for $10. Will be offered to the Airways Museum in Melbourne. Second World War Research Group Aviation Cultures Conferences Heritage of the Air Pic by @Joideverve_x

The first international tourists in almost two years arrived in Australia this morning, with #QF12 from LAX landing in Sydney at 6:20am.

Air India flight attendants Miss Bilimoria and Miss Chablani spent three months in Perth in 1963. Here they are on the grounds of the Freeway Hotel, photographed by W. Harley of the Australian News and Information Bureau. NAA: A1501, A4669/1

The airline industry soared to new heights in the 1950s. Driven by great advances in aviation technology and a burgeoning consumer market, new commercial airliners introduced the future of air travel to the next generation of passengers. #SFOHistory #avgeek

I'm on a roll again! 3500 words into an article about the transformation of flight simulation in the 1940s, from the servomechanical Link Trainer to 'Dehmel' type analog computer systems such as this pivotal U.S. Navy PB4Y-2 Privateer setup. Aviation Cultures Conferences Heritage of the Air Prof Melanie Swalwell @melswal.bsky.social

The Heritage of the Air team is heartbroken to announce that our wonderful colleague, mentor and friend Ross Gibson died last week. His amazing creativity was vital to this project. We miss you Ross. Here he is being his eloquent self at our 2019 conference