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Ray Parer and John McIntosh in the England-Australia Air Race, Bandar Abbas [B 78171] • Photograph

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Summary

Ray Parer and John McIntosh in front of their DH9 G-EAQM 'PD'. They arrived at at Bandar Abbas on 5 March 1920 and left the next day. The Airco DH.9 with Lieutenant Ray Parer as pilot and John McIntosh as co-pilot, departed Hounslow 8 January 1920 (after the Vickers Vimy crew had already successfully completed their flight), and landed at Darwin 2 August 1920. They were the first single-engined aircraft to complete a flight from Engalnd to Australia and although ineligible for the competition - their flight having taken 206 days and the Vimy crew already having been successful - they were awarded a £1000 consolation prize.

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Dates / Publication details

5 March 1920

Photographer

MunGavin, George Alexander

Collection

Part of General Collection

Subject

Parer, Raymond J. P. (Raymond John Paul), 1894-1967.
McIntosh, John Cowe, 1892-1921.
Airco DH 9 (biplanes)
England-Australia air race, 1919
Airmen -- Australia.
Bandar ʻAbbās (Iran)

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General notes

One of ten photographs of the 1919 England-Australia Air Race taken by George Alexander MunGavin, the British Consul at Bandar Abbas, on the southern coast of Iran on the, Persian Gulf, and in charge of the Indo-European Telegraph Department's telegraph station there. Do an ARCHIVAL NUMBER search on B 78162 to B 78171 to view other images.

Historical information

In 1919 Australian Prime Minister William Hughes offered a £10,000 prize on behalf of the Australian government for the first Australians to fly an aircraft from England to Australia, in under 30 consecutive days. Of the six teams that entered the race, the winning crew and first to arrive in Australia, flew in the Vickers Vimy G-EAOU bomber, departing London on 12 November 1919, and arriving in Darwin 27 days and 20 hours later, on 10 December 1919. The crew consisted of South Australian pilots and brothers Captain Ross MacPherson Smith and Lieutenant Keith Macpherson Smith, with mechanics Sergeants Walter Henry Shiers and James Mallett Bennett.

Digitisation information

Date

17/09/2020

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1,787 x 2,753 pixels (4.9 MP)

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888.19 K

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