Keith Robey interviewed by Rob Linn for the E.A. Crome aviation oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3411851
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Robey, Keith, 1921-2013, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2005
- 2 digital audio tapes (ca. 130 min.)
- Series:
- E.A. Crome aviation oral history project.
- Summary:
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Keith Robey speaks about his fascination with aviation; his father's establishment of the Australian Air League; his decision to become a pilot; Mascot Airport in the mid-1930s; gaining his A licence at age 17 on the day that war was declared; the setbacks to his joining the RAAF; being retaught how to fly; being chosen as a multi-engined pilot; the planes he flew and training in navigation duties and spotting; being posted to 63 Squadron, Laverton, Vic.; the dangers of submarine spotting work; his posting to Darwin; the formation of Liberator Squadron; the people with whom he flew and experiences in latter part of the war; post-war, becoming a flying instructor and his career was launched; his involvement with Association of Commercial Flying Operators [later General Aviation Association]; the government assistance to aero clubs in post war years; his involvement with the Bankstown Airport Chamber of Commerce.
Robey talks about his views on the current 2005 issues: Hoxton Park, Bankstown and the situation with private ownership; the Illawarra Flying School at Bankstown and his reasons for moving there; the Fawcett family; the rapid growth of the flying school until it became the biggest commercial flying school in Australia; moving on from Illawarra to work with Ansett General Aviation as Operations Manager, for 14 years; the reasons for the general aviation manufacturing industry collapse in the mid-1970s; some of the people he had taught to fly; his move to the Police Aero Club; outlines the reasons why the resurgence in general aviation was halted; how aviation is now a very tightly controlled business; the demise of general aviation under the current situation with airports and lack of government interest.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on Feb. 23, 2005 at Georges Hall, N.S.W.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-218650059
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (3 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 40 leaves)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Aircraft pilots
- Other authors/contributors:
- Linn, Rob, interviewer
- Related Records:
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