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I gather this pic was taken at Mascot aerodrome, in Sydney, at the time of Charles Kingsford Smith etc’s flight to New Zealand in January 1933. Kingsford Smith etc departed from Mascot on 10th January…then flew south to Seven-Mile Beach at Gerringong to be refuelled…the following day they flew across the Tasman Sea to New Plymouth, on NZ's north island. In this pic we see the Southern Cross with the port and starboard engine exhaust pipes passing above the wing…this was a new configuration that had evidently been made prior to this flight…

Some of the other pics in this SLNSW series were also taken on this occasion…several were published in the newspapers at the time, in the Labor Daily and the Sun, etc…

The crew comprised Charles Kingsford Smith, P.G. ‘Bill’ Taylor (co-pilot and navigator), John Stannage (radio operator)…they were accompanied by journalist Jack Percival, who covered the flight for the Sun, etc…and New Plymouth Aero Club secretary Stan Nielson…

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/228911689 - the Sun, 9th January, 1933…pic of the crew, etc…

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/228902707 - the Sun, 10th January, 1933…pics taken at Mascot pre the departure for Gerringong, etc

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/228907246 - the Sun, 11th January, 1933…Jack Percival’s account of the flight…

Pics 3 & 4 in this series show, L-R: Bill Taylor (co-pilot and navigator), Charles Kingsford Smith, John Stannage (radio operator), Stan Nielson (secretary New Plymouth aero Club), Jack Percival (journalist)

Pics 6 & 7 in this series include Kingsford Smith's mother and brother and also Anton den Hertog, then managing director of Philips Australia, who supplied the radio equipment and the landing light which was installed on the Southern Cross for the flight…I think he also appears in pics 21-22…

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/259162117 - the Preston Mail, 28th January, 1933…den Hertog can be identified via the captions here…

Kingsford Smith made the first flight between Australia and New Zealand in September 1928 with Charles Ulm (co-pilot), Hal Litchfield (navigator), and Tom McWilliams (wireless operator)…they made the return flight in October 1928…which was the first flight from New Zealand to Australia...

As far as I know, as of January 1933, the only other successful trans-Tasman flights had been made by Guy Menzies, who’d made a solo flight from Sydney in January 1931 (without gaining prior approval form the Commonwealth aviation authorities)…and Francis Chichester, who’d flown from New Zealand to Australia via Lord Howe Island in April - June 1931 (which included a lengthy delay at Lord Howe Island to repair damage)…

In January 1928 New Zealand aviators John Moncrieff and George Hood made an ill-fated attempt to fly from Sydney to New Zealand in a Ryan B-1 Brougham monoplane…the same make of aircraft that Charles Lindberg had used to make his 1927 flight from Paris to New York…Moncreiff and Hood were in the air for some 12 hours before radio signals from the aircraft ceased…the general consensus has been that they either landed or crashed into the sea…but there has been speculation that they might have reached New Zealand, but crashed…to date no trace of the aircraft has been found…

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Is that a Fairchild? or a small Travelair type?

A30yoyo I think it is a Stinson...

Yes, could be a Stinson Detroiter SM-2 Junior like this one? (Flatter windscreen than the SM-1?)

Salinas. Santa Elena, Ecuador. c1981.

Nice historic photo. Thank you for publishing.

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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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