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Nurses beside the KANOWNA, Melbourne

  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] yes you're right - it's not quite the same image, just a few seconds out by the looks of things...

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

  • 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

British Library digitised image from page 179 of "Illustrated handbook of Victoria, Australia [Edited by James Thomson.]"

  • Dave Bennett said:
    Please rotate.