connorpark

Avro biplane ready for take off at Connor Park

from State Library of Queensland

• jonathan vernon said:

  My late grandfather Jack Wilson MM trained in Avros with the RAF/RFC in 1918. I remember one day we were on the aerodrome. There was quite a lot of action with learners until they got the idea of landing properly. There’s this learner who instead of letting the plane down to a reasonable height and gliding tried to land from a hundred feet. Look at the silly bugger. The plane flattened out too soon, right in front of us. Instead of gliding in he went straight down and the plane crumpled up. All of this & more in a 25,000 word verbatim memoir from interviews conducted with Jack Wilson MM in his 97th year.