Queensland Aero Club

Intending members of the Queensland Aero Club, Glider School, and Moded-Making Aero Club were invited through ads and then articles in the Brisbane Courier to visit the premises at 29-31 Turbot Street at North Quay, initially on Wednesday evening, 1 June 1910, and, subsequently, all day on 6 June 1910. There, C. L. Campbell, whose biplane and monoplane gilders and model of an aero-marine monoplane, all of his own invention, had attracted attention at the Longreach, Queensland, show in May, had set up his machines, outfitted workshops, and designated club rooms. The club had been formed with the object of bringing together those who take a practical interest in the conquest of the air and affording inventors an opportunity of placing their inventions on exhibition in a recognized place. Enrollments appear to have been taken on each of these days and subsequently and was soon said to have 40 members.

Charles Lindsay Campbell was the main founder of the club and its instructor. Another founding member was Thomas Macleod. Together, on 15 June 1910, they erected a full-sized Antoinette-patterned monoplane of their own construction. Campbell. The Brisbane Exhibition of August 1910 featured an Aviation Court sponsored by the Aero Club that exhibited Campbell's aircraft and in October, the Aero Club sponsored an aviation week at a motion picture theater in Brisbane. According to Gibson, the demise of the Queensland Aero Club came in July 1910 when its members formed a branch of the Aerial League of Australia in Brisbane, Queensland, and dropped the name Queensland Aero Club. This is not substantiated by our research which shows activities of the Queensland Aero Club in 1910 and 1911, which is as much research as we did. Before fulling dismissing Gibson, however, we must first check his sources and that we still must do.

MacLeod's last name has also been seen at Macleod and McLeod. Campbell was killed 1 August 1912 in a crash while flying a monoplane at Brooklands in England.

Sources

• The Queenslander (Brisbane, Queensland), 21 May 1910 and 25 June 1910; Brisbane Courier (Brisbane, Queensland) 30 & 31 May and 1, 6 9, 18, 23 June, 1910; 3 October 1910 and 3 Aug. 1912; The West Australian (Perth, Western Aust.), 3 Aug. 1912; Gibson, "Australia and Australians in Civil Aviation, An Index to Events" V.1, 28-29, 31 (1971); Copley, "Australians in the Air," 11 (1976)

Organization names	Queensland Aero Club
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Country	Australia
City	Brisbane, Queensland
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Started aero	1910
Ended aero	1910
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