I found it more interesting from the chopper as you can still see the original Connellan strip. Photo not mine.[/quote]
A mate of mine is related to Eddie Connellan the man who started this airline - his uncle in fact. Quite a amazing story and life - right from doing all the original survey work pre-WW2 in the outback in modified Rolls Royces.
Wally once did a cracker model of one of their airliners - a Riley DH Heron VH-CLS, the one which tragically crashed in Cairns in 1975.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connellan_Airways