Stopping at Roma on TAA Fokker Friendship, which featured a pressurised cabin for the comfort of passengers, 1965. Slide by Lynne Cain, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

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TAA Electra aircraft, Eagle Farm Airport, 1964. The sign on the tarmac directs passengers to the front steps of the plane for seating rows 1-7, or the rear steps for rows 8-19. Slide by Eric Willmott, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

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Three generations of passengers ready to board TAA 'The nation's jetline' at Ayr airport, 1962. Slide by Beth Snewin, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

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Press greeted the last Trans-Australian Airways DC3 (Dakota) flight in Australia from Brisbane when it touched down in Miles, 1968. Slide by Allan Webb, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

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