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Sir Ross and Keith Smith landing at Northfield [B 7967] • Photograph

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Summary

Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith's arrival from England at Northfield. The aeroplane is a Vickers-Vimy G EAOU, former bomber with an open cockpit. The race from England to Australia was won on their arrival at Darwin where the prize money of 10,000 pounds was divided between the brothers and their mechanics, Shiers and Bennett. The crew later flew the plane from Darwin to Adelaide arriving at Northfield. The photograph shows the biplane about to land in the scrub at Northfield.

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Physical description

Photograph; 15.9 cm x 19 cm

Dates / Publication details

1920

Collection

Part of General Collection

Subject

Smith, Keith Macpherson, Sir, 1890-1955
Smith, Ross Macpherson, Sir, 1892-1922
Vickers Limited
Vimy (Bomber)
Aeronautics -- Australia -- Flights

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Digitisation information

Date

02/11/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

2,962 x 3,545 pixels (10.5 MP)

Size

10.53 MB

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