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18_000371 SDASM Archival Image from SDASM Archives uploaded October 2024
18_000311_2 from SDASM Archives uploaded September 2024
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Capt. B.E. Skcel (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded September 2022
Rose Hereth RP-4 (19)_2 from SDASM Archives uploaded August 2022
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DeHavilland DH.88 Comet, "Grosvenor House" G-ACSS, used by Charles William Anderson Scott & Tom Campbell Black, winners of Centenary Air Race, Martin Place, Macquarie Street, Sydney, 12 November 1934
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covid convict said:
The London to Melbourne MacRobertson Centenary Air Race was held in late October 1934...it was won by English aviators Charles Scott and Tom Campbell Black...flying a de Havilland DH.88 Comet (G-ACSS), named 'Grosvenor House'...they departed from Mildenhall aerodrome, near London, on 20th October...and arrived in Melbourne on 23rd October...in a time of 2 days, 23hrs. In the process, when they landed at Darwin, they lowered the England-Australia record to an incredible 2 days 4hrs 33min...which became a longstanding record for a piston driven aircraft. From Melbourne, Scott and Black later came to Sydney for a round of official engagements and congratulations...they arrived in Sydney by train on 12th November...their aircraft was transported from Melbourne to Sydney by ship and put on display for a week or so... Charles Scott, the senior pilot, was of course no stranger to Australia. In the later 1920s and early 1930s, he'd clocked up thousands of hours flying for Qantas, much of it in remote Northern Australia. Then, in the early 1930s he also made 3 record breaking solo flights between England and Australia...in April 1931 (England-Australia)...in May-June 1931 (Australia-England)...in April 1932 (England-Australia). Like many of the pioneering aviators, Scott was something of a romantic/tragic figure...but regardless, he certainly had a life. trove.nla.gov.au/work/184209253 - NLA Fairfax pic of Charles Scott checking a map with Amy Johnson, taken at Darwin in May 1930. trove.nla.gov.au/work/188066911 - NLA Fairfax pic of Charles Scott chatting with Charles Kingsford Smith at Mascot in April 1931, after Scott had beaten Kingsford Smith's England-Australia record.
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State Library of New South Wales said:
covid convict 👍
18_000311_2
from SDASM Archives
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Stig Jarlevik said:
This is a very odd photo
As far as I am aware M-SCOM was never painted this way.
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TVL1970 said:
This is a photo of the recovery of the body of Mexican aviator Francisco Sarabia from the wreckage of the Gee Bee R-6H (XB-AXM, formerly NX14307), he named "El Conquistador del Cielo," after he and the aircraft crashed into the Potomac River, on June 7, 1939. The recovered aircraft was eventually restored and is currently placed on display at the Museo Francisco Sarabia, in Ciudad Lerdo, Mexico.
See:
www.findagrave.com/memorial/30682768/francisco-sarabia_ti...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Gee_Bee_R-6
www.aviationmuseum.eu/Blogvorm/museo-francisco-sarabia/ -
Stig Jarlevik said:
Thanks
Yes I am familliar with that accident.
Perhaps the main photo text should be in line with the tags to the right??
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Flickr Foundation said:
Thank you for this I've added it to the plane's wikipedia page
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Gee_Bee_R-6#1939_Return_f...