Uni Air
Within weeks, Flight Lieutenant G.R. Baker, an RAF officer on secondment to the RAAF, was appointed to commence setting up the new Air Force unit and an article appeared in "The Courier-Mail" of 1 November 1950 announcing that a "Varsity Air Unit" would be formed almost immediately. Three days later there appeared another article with the headline "Rush Uni Air Group" followed by "Students yesterday flooded the RAAF with applications to join the Queensland University Air Squadron" as the squadron was established. The article also announced the appointment of Flight Lieutenant W.O.K. Hewitt as the first Commanding Officer; Hewitt had an outstanding war record, which included participation in the first aerial defence of Australian soil, when a handful of obsolete Wirraways had clashed with a large Japanese invading force at Rabaul in early 1942.