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Three pioneering QANTAS farewells

Frank McNally, Arthur Baird and Jack Hazlitt working on a Beardmore engine outside the Longreach hangar in late 1922. (Supplied)

Monday was the anniversary of the day Qantas farewelled three pioneers. Two died and the third left because his Mum […]

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