page_title: C. W. A. Scott
section_title: Qantas years
hierarchical_section_title: C. W. A. Scott / Qantas years
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of C.W.A. Scott (Pilot) and Sir John Salmond after Salmond's tour of northern Australia advising the RAAF on Aerial defence standing in front of the Qantas DH.50J named "Hermes" registered G-AUHI
context_page_description: Flight Lieutenant Charles William Anderson Scott, AFC was an English aviator. He won the MacRobertson Air Race, a race from London to Melbourne, in 1934, in a time of 71 hours.
context_section_description: Having qualified for his 'B' commercial licence he emigrated to Australia in 1927 to seek work with airline companies. He played a pioneering role in the formation and the early expansion of the airline company Qantas which still operates to this day and is the national airline of Australia. As a commercial pilot in Australia he frequently made long air taxi flights, perhaps the best known being a 4,000 miles (6,400 km) trip across Central Australia. Scott became a senior pilot for Qantas and during this time he acquired an intimate knowledge of the northern territory. In 1929 Qantas posted him to Brisbane to take over the duties of flying instructor at Eagle Farm Airport, Brisbane Flying Training School.
  During Scott's time as a pilot for Qantas he recorded 3,179 hours of flying time, covering over 83,000 miles (134,000 km).
caption: Adelaide August 1928, Royal Air Force Air Marshal Sir John Salmond (second from left) with members of his party C.W.A. Scott (pilot, second from right) and George Nutson (engineer, first on left) after a taxi trip from Darwin using the DH.50J Hermes during Salmond's tour of northern Australia
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