vickersvimy

16 photos tagged vickersvimy, from 3 members of Flickr Commons.

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1919

2022

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Aeroplane [Sir Ross Smith’s landing], Mascot from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection uploaded July 2022
Labourers position bamboo mats to facilitate take-off without getting bogged, Sourabaya, Java, first flight by Australians from England to Australia, 1919 from State Library of New South Wales uploaded December 2019
Labourers pulling Vickers Vimy out of a bog, Sourabaya, Java, first flight by Australians from England to Australia, 1919 from State Library of New South Wales uploaded December 2019
Cobbs Creek, Northern Territory, where propeller cracked, [Jim] Bennett, Ross [Smith], Keith [Smith], first flight by Australians from England to Australia, 1919 from State Library of New South Wales uploaded December 2019
Stuck in the bracing wires, Vickers Vimy, G-EAOU, first flight by Australians from England to Australia, 1919 from State Library of New South Wales uploaded December 2019
Vickers Vimy, G-EAOU, First flight by Australians from England to Australia, 1919 from State Library of New South Wales uploaded December 2019
Vickers Vimy, G-EAOU, used in the first flight by Australians from England to Australia, 1919 from State Library of New South Wales uploaded December 2019
Captain Ross Smith, First flight by Australians from England to Australia, 1919 from State Library of New South Wales uploaded December 2019
Keith Smith, First flight by Australians from England to Australia, 1919 from State Library of New South Wales uploaded December 2019
Vickers Vimy Peking 1919 from SDASM Archives uploaded July 2015
AL61A-170 Vickers Vimy J7243 from SDASM Archives uploaded May 2014
AL-61B Album Image _00084 from SDASM Archives uploaded April 2014
Crew checking fuselage; First England-Australia flight, Keith and Ross Smith, 1919 - Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia / photographer unknown from State Library of New South Wales uploaded February 2014
Historic Flight from SDASM Archives uploaded October 2012
Vickers Vimy Crash. Helliopolis from SDASM Archives uploaded May 2012

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Aeroplane [Sir Ross Smith’s landing], Mascot

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

1 older comment, and then…
beachcomber australia said:
"They had come from England ... " The biplane is a Vickers-Vimy.
Read All About It in the following Monday 16/02/1920 Sydney Morning Herald - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15879828

Vickers Vimy, G-EAOU, First flight by Australians from England to Australia, 1919

from State Library of New South Wales

avro99 said:
The registration letters G-EAOU were said to stand for ....... "God 'Elp All Of Us"

Crew checking fuselage; First England-Australia flight, Keith and Ross Smith, 1919 - Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia / photographer unknown

from State Library of New South Wales

1 older comment, and then…
SandyEm said:
Take my hat off to these pioneers... how brave were they!!!!
Cecilia Temperli said:
"Those magnificent men in their flying machines..." Looking at these planes now one wonders that they even got off the ground. Very brave pioneers indeed! An image by one of my contacts in Darwin: www.flickr.com/photos/centralaustralia/12627126594/in/con...
✠ drakegoodman ✠ said:
Splendid. Thanks for sharing this one.
Zinaida Beaumont said:
They had a lot of courage I love these planes too
adiyanto adiyanto said:
Bulu