Flying Bass Strait

The population of Tasmania, dependent on shipping since settlement, was inspired by a visiting aviator's demonstration of his flying machine in 1914. But no-one on that day could foresee the possibility of anyone being able to fly across the stormy waters of Bass Strait to the mainland.
Five years later, a daring young ex- Australian Flying Corps officer, Lieutenant Arthur Long, made the journey successfully. While some saw this as the beginning of the end of the State's isolation, he was co...