Trove Air Bot

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Posts random Trove Newspapers articles about aviation, mostly from Australian newspapers up until the 1950s. See #AirBotNews for occasional highlights. See also @TroveAirRaidBot, @TroveUFOBot. Owner: @Airminded
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This historical Australian newspaper article contains the keyword "aircraft": 15 Nov 1930, "BALLARAT FOREST TO BE SPRAYED FROM THE AIR": http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article143823154
BALLARAT FOREST - TO BE SPRAYED FROM THE AIR - Riverina Recorder (Balranald, Moulamein, NSW : 1887 - 1944) - 15 Nov 1930

The statement of the Minister for Defence, Mr. Green, that the Victorian Forests Commissioner contemplated using aeroplanes to eradicate posts in ...

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This historical Australian newspaper article contains the keyword "aviation": 26 Sep 1918, "Flying Above Bocheland. A Story of Life in the Air.": http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134297961
Flying Above Bocheland. - A Story of Life in the Air. - Rosedale Courier (Vic. : 1914 - 1918) - 26 Sep 1918

Inky darkness prevailed outside the aviation barracks. We were just preparing to turn in and Set some much needed rest when the major's bulky ...

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This historical Australian newspaper article contains the keyword "aeronautics": 12 Jun 1911, "AIRMAN'S PERILOUS MANOEUVRE LONDON, Saturday.": http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article215655953
AIRMAN'S PERILOUS MANOEUVRE - LONDON, Saturday. - The Bundaberg Mail and Burnett Advertiser (Qld. : 1892 - 1917) - 12 Jun 1911

During an exhibition flight with an unusually large aeroplane at Aldershot, Colonel Cody, the British army aeronautical expert, created great ...

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This historical Australian newspaper article contains the keyword "aeronautics": 6 Jan 1908, "THE AERIAL TROPHY.": http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article219288866
THE AERIAL TROPHY. - Lithgow Mercury (NSW : 1898 - 1954) - 6 Jan 1908

International aerial competitions are calculated to give a considerable impetus to aerial navigation, and to the development of machines of utility. To inspire ...

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This historical Australian newspaper article contains the keyword "aviation": 17 Sep 1909, "What Quiz Thinks. Australia and its Navy.": http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article168234672
What Quiz Thinks. Australia and its Navy. - Quiz (Adelaide, SA : 1900 - 1909) - 17 Sep 1909

Although Quiz is no jingo in the matter of armies and navies there is no escaping the responsibility which rests upon Australia to provide an ...

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This historical Australian newspaper article contains the keyword "aviation": 20 May 1939, "BOY KING OF SIAM": http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article163722398
BOY KING OF SIAM - Dayboro Times and Moreton Mail (Qld. : 1937 - 1940; 1945 - 1954) - 20 May 1939

Thirteen-year-old Kins Ananda of Slam has returned for his coronation at Bangkok, capital of one ol the most progressive independent countries of ...

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This historical Australian newspaper article contains the keyword "aircraft": 25 Jan 1951, "Volcano victims BLOOD SAVES MANY": http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50093399
Volcano victims - BLOOD SAVES MANY - The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954) - 25 Jan 1951

A LAE message yesterday said that Queensland blood rushed to New Guinea ...

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This historical Australian newspaper article contains the keyword "airplane": 25 Jul 1925, "DURALUMIN. THE WONDER METAL.": http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article270305542
DURALUMIN. - THE WONDER METAL. - The Woodend Star (Vic. : 1888 - 1942) - 25 Jul 1925

In duralumin, the new metal invented especially for aircraft, lies the secret of the far-flying exploits of the giant dirigibles. Trans-Atlantic flying ...

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This historical Australian newspaper article contains the keyword "airplane": 25 Apr 1935, ""QUICK-CHANGES" WONDER PLANE.": http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article271392864
This historical Australian newspaper article contains the keyword "airplane": 11 Nov 1938, "RESEARCH AND DESTRUCTION SCIENCE DEFENDED": http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article260040238
RESEARCH AND DESTRUCTION - SCIENCE DEFENDED - The Mount Magnet Leader and Youanmi Miner (WA : 1935 - 1947) - 11 Nov 1938

[?]arch too often appears as the special handmaid of frightfulness. But Lord Rayleigh in his presidential address before savant[?]s of ...

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