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An early aeroplane arrived in Adelaide [PRG 280/1/10/157] • Photograph

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Summary

Men inspecting an aeroplane which has just arrived in Adelaide.

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Physical description

photograph; 9.5 x 14.5 cm

Dates / Publication details

1914

Collection

Part of Searcy Collection

Subject

Airplanes -- South Australia -- Adelaide
Adelaide (S.A.)

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Historical information

Believed to be the plane of Queensland-based, English born aviation pioneer AW Jones, with the location at Cheltenham Racecourse. Another image captioned 'AW Jones at Cairns' shows a plane which looks identical; Jones set up camp at Cheltenham for several weeks around late 1913, early 1914; and is credited with the first ever flight over Adelaide's CBD. There are several newspaper reports from the era to support this, and his flight over the CBD and other flights are extensively covered.The 'Register' has "Two Flights Over Cheltenham" on 29/12/1913. The first flight over the CBD is said to be 02/01/1914 and was widely reported in local papers including 'The Critic'. [Information provided by R. Hill].

Digitisation information

Date

06/12/2002

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,067 x 2,050 pixels (6.3 MP)

Size

6.29 MB

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