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Australia’s National Research Aircraft Facility.

Australian.

Provides air traffic management, air navigation infrastructure services and aviation rescue and firefighting.

A not-for-profit organization whose primary objectives are to promote the exchange of information and advancement of knowledge in the fields of aviation psychology and human factors.

Includes flying and parachuting associations, clubs and government authorities.

Oversees the safety regulations of civil air operations in Australia and the operation of Australian aircraft overseas.

Provides policy advice to Ministers and the Parliamentary Secretary for the Transport and Regional Services portfolio.  Also conducts research, analysis and safety investigations, provides safety information and advice based upon these investigations; and performs regulatory functions.

Defense of Australia’s people, security and interests.

Is a not-for-profit charitable service providing aero medical emergency and primary health care services together with communication and education assistance to people who live, work and travel in regional and remote Australia.

To and From the Airport

Provides valuable information for travellers on their first visit to a destination, this site which is the brainchild of an airline pilot, tells you all you need to know about the various transport options – car, bus, train, shuttle and other forms of public transport – for getting to and from airports all around the world.

Select a combination of the Airport of your arrival or departure, a City and a Service Category for a listing of services focusing on your requirements.

Check worldwide flight schedules as well as various travel resources.

Fact sheets, media releases

Lots of history and great pictures of aircraft and the folks who pioneered them

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Companion to an exhibition highlighting "some of the major 'firsts' in aviation and space history." Features illustrated descriptions of the 1903 Wright Flyer (first successful airplane), Ryan NYP "Spirit of St. Louis" (first solo transatlantic flight), Sputnik I (first artificial satellite), Gemini IV (first American spacewalk), Breitling Orbiter 3 Gondola (first nonstop around-the-world balloon flight), and others. From the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

When you think of the origin of "flight", what is the first thing that comes to mind?

Tales of the Wright brothers, the people who knew them, and the airplanes they flew. Includes a timeline of early aviation, from the inception of the fixed-wing airplane in 1799 to the days just before World War 1.

These pages contain a variety of information about the NSW railway network, both historical and current. The data can be broken down into four categories: non-spatial (plain data), spatial (map data), photographic and hypertext (links to related data sources). The intention of these pages to make as much information as possible available on the net. Although you will find pictures of trains within these pages, I have chosen to concentrate on recording the infrastructure of the state, especially on the abandoned branch lines.

Provides information about the Sydney rail network. It provides links to information about fares and bookings and also contains network maps and train and trackwork timetables.

Contains information about Sydney buses and ferries. It provides links to information about tickets and bookings and also contains route maps and timetables.

The Transport Infoline offers you reliable and accurate timetable, route, ticket and fare information for trains, buses and ferries in the Greater Sydney Metropolitan Area (including Newcastle and the Central Coast, Wollongong and the Illawarra).