30 July - 1930 - The Fate Of Australia's Forgotten Aviator

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Australia On This Day

65 episodes

9 months ago

What happened on this day back in the day? From the creator of Forgotten Australia, this is your daily dose of the stories that made headlines and sometimes made history.

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What happened on this day back in the day? From the creator of Forgotten Australia, this is your daily dose of the stories that made headlines and sometimes made history.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

30 July - 1930 - The Fate Of Australia's Forgotten Aviator

Australia On This Day

21 minutes 52 seconds

4 years ago

30 July - 1930 - The Fate Of Australia's Forgotten Aviator

REPEAT: Pioneering Australian pilots Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm and Bert Hinkler are household names for their aviation feats and tragic fates. Eric Hook is forgotten — not even a Wikipedia entry. But in mid-1930 his England-Australia flight was a front-page story as the world awaited news of what had happened to him in Burma. Hear his story in today's episode.

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