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Vickers Vimy [PRG 280/1/34/160] • Photograph

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Summary

Vickers Vimy G-EAAV. Sponsored by The Times newspaper and flown by Captains S. Cockerell and F.C.G. Broome DFC, with mechanic, James Wyatt MSM, rigger, Claude Corby, and zoologist and Times special correspondent Dr. Peter Chalmers Mitchell, this aircraft participated in the Cairo to Capetown air race. It was written off when it crashed on take off from Tabora, Tanzania, on 27 February 1920. Captain Cockerell and Claude Corby received slight injuries.

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Physical description

photograph; 8 x 13 cm

Dates / Publication details

1920

Collection

Part of Searcy Collection

Subject

Vickers Vimy G-EAAV (Aeroplane)
Vickers aircraft

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Digitisation information

Date

06/03/2002

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,263 x 2,015 pixels (6.6 MP)

Size

6.58 MB

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