Planes, UFOs and spies

THE Surf Coast has witnessed plenty of aerial escapades down the years, in peacetime and wartime.

This Gypsy Moth, dubbed the Texaco Moth, attracted curious onlookers on the beach at Lorne in the early 1930s, a time when aviators and aviatrices were exciting the world with record-breaking flights that helped pave the way for global commercial flights. A few years earlier, in 1925, engine trouble forced a Fairey IIID Seaplane to ditch off Lorne, near Stony Creek; an extraordinary sight for the era when it was washed on to rocks and damaged.

In 1962, two American airmen died when their B-57 bomber crashed into the water near Aireys Inlet. Lorne fisherman Brian Hunt escaped disaster himself by less than 150 metres. In more recent times, the extraordinary 1978 disappearance Frederick Valentich in his Cessna after reporting a shiny metallic UFO flying about him has yet to be explained.....

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