Leading Aircraftman Gordon Johnson, about to enter the cockpit of a Wackett air trainer in full flying gear at No. 11 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF, Benalla, Victoria, c. 1942. This aircraft was designed by Sir Lawrence Wackett and built in Australia by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation as a two-seat elementary trainer. Wackett had been a famous World War I flyer with the Australian Flying Corps and in 1918 devised a parachute to drop ammunition to Australian troops at the Battle of Hamel in France. AWM 010753/08
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AWM 010753/08
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Benalla, Australia
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