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Aeroplane Accident at Cheltenham [B 36684] • Photograph

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Summary

This image was printed in The Advertiser (Adelaide) 6 October 1911, page 9. The crash was at Cheltenham racecourse early in the morning, the pilot was Lieutenant H.E. Watkins and his passenger was Frank Wild. Both men survived the crash. A wind gust caught the aircraft as it was flying over the south west corner of the racecourse, causing its left side to touch the ground and overturn, with the two men caught underneath. The aeroplane was a REP monoplane built for Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914. It was made of nickel steel , 34 feet long and 45 feet from wing tip to wing tip and weighing 1,200 pounds. It was taken, without wings, to Antarctica where it had limited success as an 'air tractor' or motorised sledge.

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Physical description

photograph

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1920

Photographer

Petts, Charles Alfred

Collection

Part of General Collection

Subject

Watkins, H. E.
Wild, Frank
Aircraft accidents -- South Australia -- Cheltenham

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Digitisation information

Date

19/02/2014

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

6,282 x 4,172 pixels (26.2 MP)

Size

78.65 MB

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