Colour aerial photograph of the Melbourne Suburb of Kew taken from an aeroplane coming into land at Tullamarine Airport, Melbourne. melbourne, kew, hawthorn, camberwell, landscape, aerial

Aerial photograph of Moorabbin, including Chesterville Road, Keys Road and Wickham Road, Moorabbin, Briggs cottage, Neill's waterhole, McKittrick property, site of FRUMELBlack and white aerial view of Moorabbin. Houses, market garens, roads, and water features are all clearly visible.Handwritten in red ink on reverseL A 603 / 97% [in red circle] Handwritten in blue ink on reverse: 9502 06111 / M'bbinmoorabbin, city of moorabbin, chesterville, keys, wickham

Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: 1959/ Lady Bay Reclamation/ Aerial view looking West showing dumping of/ Quarry overburden (black pen, upper left)port of portland archives, lady bay, reclamation, 1960s

Alan McArthur from the CSIRO began his experimental burning program in the late 1950s near Canberra and published his landmark paper in 1962, “Controlled burning in eucalypt forests”. Leaflet No. 80, as it was known, proved a turning point for forest and fire managers across Australia. It led to the McArthur Forest Fire Danger Meter (FFDM) which first appeared in operational use in 1967 as the Mk 4. The CSIRO had developed its semi-automatic aerial incendiary machine dropping small capsules, with the first trial from a fixed-wing Cessna 337 at Manjimup in December 1965. In April 1969, the Forests Commission borrowed the second prototype of the CSIRO machine to carry out fuel reduction burning at Orbost. The success prompted the purchase of their own machine in 1970, which now sits in the Altona Museum. Pioneering machine in the development of aerial ignition in AustraliaAerial Incendiary Machineforests commission victoria (fcv), planned burning, bushfire aviation, bushfire