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Some ’naughty bits’ on Australian airline pioneer Sir Norman Brearley.
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SEASON 1, EPISODE 5
They wouldn’t let Brearley look at the bodies. A women said it was the first time she’d ever seen a man cry.
'I made all the rules, and I followed every one of them'.
World War One dogfighter Major Norman Brearley was the first off the ground with an airline in Australia, dramatically changing the lives of people in Outback Western Australia.
Major Brearley had been ruthless and cunning in the skies over the Western Front, and was the same in business. In this second episode on his establishment on Western Australian Airways, two researchers from the Old Flyers’ Group in Perth entertain and inform us by uncovering what one of them describes as the ’naughty bits’ of the story of this great pioneer.
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