17021934

Faith in Australia on the beach at Murawai [Muriwai] ready for take-off with First Official Airmail from N.Z. to Australia, 17 Feb 1934

from State Library of New South Wales

• Brenda Anderson said:

  According to a nz stamps site: "The Avro 10, Faith in Australia, left Muriwai Beach, Auckland at 6 am and arrived in Sydney 14 hours 10 minutes later. Charles Ulm was the pilot, Scotty Allan the navigator/co-pilot and R.T. Boulton was the engineer. An airmail of 39,255 items was flown and a special cachet was applied."

• Rob Russell said:

  More photos of this event and aircraft, an Avro X, here. Apparently the wing upper surface was orange, which isn't apparent in these B&W shots.

• hobvias sudoneighm said:

  This image has been used in the indicommons.org post: Delivering the Mail
  
  

• Greg Bajor said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Aviation Art - Invited images only, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• Brenda Anderson said:

  Just FYI. Here is a larger version that was uploaded a few months later: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/3565704804/]