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trove.nla.gov.au/work/188067323 - similar NLA Fairfax pic...

During his 1929-30 England Australia flight, Chichester arrived at Darwin on 25th January, 1930...he then flew south and landed in Sydney on 30th January, 1930...

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16621143 - SMH, 27th January, 1930...'Mr Chichester ; Arrival at Darwin'

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16622272 - SMH, 31st January, 1930...'Long Flight Ends ; Mr Chichester ; Lands at Mascot'

One interesting and probably long-forgotten piece of trivia re Chichester's 1929-30 England-Australia flight is that at the time he was often regarded as a New Zealander…during the 1920s, Chichester had lived in New Zealand for the best part of a decade, and on his arrival in Sydney he was greeted by a sizable contingent of the Sydney New Zealand Association, who’d adopted him as one of their own…

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/90104968 - the Adelaide Chronicle, 6th February, 1930...some background on Chichester's arrival in Sydney...per this item, members of the Sydney New Zealand Association carried Chichester in triumphal fashion to the NSW Aero Club clubhouse...

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/160633355 - the Sydney Mail, 5th February, 1930...here even the Sydney Mail refers to Chichester as 'the New Zealand airman'...

trove.nla.gov.au/work/188067345 - NLA Fairfax pic of Chichester at Mascot...here he's chatting with NSW Attorney-General Frank Boyce, who represented the State Government at the official welcome...

trove.nla.gov.au/work/188067346 - I suspect these chaps might be members of the Sydney New Zealand Association, who were at Mascot to welcome Chichester...

trove.nla.gov.au/work/188532887 - ditto...the Maori chap we see here in the middle might be Bill Rangi (Wiremu Haeata Rangi), a New Zealand WW1 veteran who lived in Sydney after WW1...but I haven't yet managed to find a pic of Rangi which might confirm this...

Following his 1929-30 flight from England to Australia, Chichester shipped his aircraft to New Zealand...where it was fitted with floats and converted to a seaplane...and re-registered as ZK-AKK. The following year Chichester then made the first solo trans-Tasman flight from west-east...albeit via Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island. He left Auckland on 28th March, 1931...and landed at Cascade Bay, Norfolk Island that same day...he flew to Lord Howe Island on 1st April. Unfortunately, at Lord Howe his aircraft was damaged when it capsized during a squall…following repairs, which took some 9 weeks, he flew to Australia on 6th June, intending to make for Port Macquarie…however, he encountered bad weather and ended up off course, at Jervis Bay, South of Sydney…at Jervis Bay his aircraft was then lifted aboard HMAS Albatross and later transported to Sydney....he arrived in Sydney on 12th June on HMS Albatross...and departed Sydney 3rd July on a proposed world tour...as things transpired Chichester's world tour flight ended in disaster when he reached Japan...on 14th August his aircraft crashed after hitting overhead wires... Chichester was quite badly injured and the aircraft was written off...

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Lores Bonney (pronounced ‘Lor-ee’) is a name unfamiliar to many Australians, yet she was a pioneering aviatrix who dodged death on a number of record-breaking solo flights across the globe. Thankfully, for historians, Bonney kept meticulous notes of her trips – even recording entries at 10-minute intervals during flights. Brisbane pilot Lores Bonney broke many records during the 1930s, narrowly cheating death several times. Despite being lauded as the first woman to fly solo from Australia to England, she remains little known today. Source: www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-culture/20...

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Archerfield Airport is a Leased Federal Airport located in Archerfield, 12 km (7.5 mi) to the south of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.[3] For some time it was the primary airport in Brisbane. During World War II it was used as a Royal Australian Air Force station. Airport traffic peaked in the 1980s. In December 2010, a development plan was released for public comment which included a new parallel runway.[4] Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archerfield_Airport

Stinson Crash Site A plaque commemorates the Stinson Air Crash of 1937 and remembers the Stinson as a pathfinder of Australian aviation. On 19th February 1937 Australia was shocked to hear that a Stinson airliner was reported missing on a flight from Brisbane. Bernard O`Reilly of Lamington Plateau decided to search the area where the flight path of the Stinson crossed the McPherson Range. He left the Guesthouse and followed the rugged McPherson Range to the west. He climbed Mt Throakban and sighted a tree 8 kilometers away that appeared to have been burnt. Three hours later a coo-ee startled him and he came upon the crash site to find two men, John Proud and Joe Binstead, still alive after 10 days. Four people died in the crash, including the Flying Officer Beverley Shepherd who was the co-pilot, but he was told of another man Jim Westrey had survived and gone for help. Bernard left the two men at the wreck to seek assistance and as he walked down Christmas Creek he found Westrey`s body. He had died as a result of a fall over a waterfall. Bernard returned with a party including a doctor while local farmers cut 16 kilometers of tracks through the rainforest of Lamington Plateau to rescue the two survivors. Source: www.monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/disaster/aviation/dis...