Sujet

Aircraft in which Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith flew from England to Australia in 1919. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Sir Ross Macpherson Smith's and Keith Smith's Vickers Vimy aircraft, G-EAO (in which they flew from England to Australia), The Smith brothers and their two mechanics left Hounslow, England on 12 November 1919 and reached Darwin on 10 December 1919. On 12 November 1919, assisted by his brother Keith and two mechanics, Wally Shiers and Jim Bennett, he set out to fly from England to Australia in a large Vickers Vimy bomber. It was an epic 28-day flight, completed at an average speed of 137 kilometres per hour, but not without mishap. On their arrival, the pioneering flyers were welcomed home as national heroes; their £10,000 prize money was shared equally. The two brothers were knighted. In April 1922, while preparing for a record-breaking around the world flight, Smith and Bennett were killed in a crash.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A52_213

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

42,2Mo (2,8Mo) / 42,0cm x 25,2cm / 4960 x 2974 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation exterior outdoors portrait standing people male library man men historical Australia Australian country panoramic flight guy endurance photography location century vintage old fashioned arrival image photograph pilot aviation Northern Territory record concept airfield photo arriving Darwin old-fashioned B&W arrive long-distance aviator Day long distance black & white black and white background people B W 1910s 20th century history historic TGN outside photograph Unknown Smith letterbox format 1919 landing ground Heritage Art record breaking Ross Macpherson Smith Ross Macpherson Sir Ross Macpherson Smith Keith Macpherson Smith Keith Macpherson Sir Keith Macpherson Smith National Library of Australia