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• Cloyne and District Historical Society 45 photos
• SDASM Archives 32 photos
• State Library of New South Wales 11 photos
• NASA on The Commons 10 photos
• State Library of Queensland 7 photos
• Nationaal Archief 5 photos
• Stockholm Transport Museum 4 photos
• U.S. National Archives 4 photos
• Florida Memory 4 photos
• Smithsonian Institution 4 photos
• National Library of Medicine 3 photos
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 3 photos

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Vampire jet after record flight Brisbane to Sydney, Australia, 1949

from State Library of New South Wales

• Francesco Dini said:

  Outstanding image 🌟

• covid convict said:

  I gather the pilot was F/Lt C.D. Murphy, DFC...he was evidently known as Des...
  
  trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/212200987 - the Brisbane Telegraph, 18th July, 1949...report on Murphy's first record breaking flight from Sydney to Brisbane on 18th July, 1949...per the Bris Tele, the time was 70 minutes...
  
  trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/27583304 - SMH, 21st July, 1949...report on Murphy's second record breaking flight...this time on the return leg from Brisbane to Sydney on 20th July, 1949...per the SMH, the time was 62 minutes...

• covid convict said:

  I haven't managed to discover who made the first non-stop flight between Sydney and Brisbane (either direction)...in 1921 Bert Hinkler flew his Avro non-stop from Sydney to Bundaberg in 8hrs 40mins...
  
  In December 1926 Edgar Percival with passenger George Cutts flew non-stop from Sydney to Brisbane in a DH.9 in 4hrs 35mins...
  
  trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16340080 - SMH, 14th December, 1926...brief report on Percival's flight

23_0001613 Convair Negative Image

from SDASM Archives

• Eagle0025 said:

  CV-240-11, s/n 133. Delivered to Swissair 17 February 1949. Registered HB-IRT and named "Appenzell". To Mohawk Airlines 19 October 1956 and registered N1018C. WFU 1966 and went on to serve many other owners as N280P. Went to Castle Air Museum, Merced, CA 23 June 1999.

23_0006469 Convair Negative Image

from SDASM Archives

• Eagle0025 said:

  CV-240-12, s/n 153. Delivered to Sabena 19 March 1949 and registered OO-AWP. WFU 1957 and later carried registrations SP-LPA, N653W, and LN-KAP. WFU for good June 1973 and scrapped at Oslo, Norway.