PROBABLY KARACHI, PAKISTAN, EARLY 1920-03. THE FIRST SINGLE ENGINED AEROPLANE FLIGHT FROM GREAT ...

Place Europe: United Kingdom
Accession Number P00281.021
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film original negative other
Conflict Period 1920-1929
Copyright

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Description

PROBABLY KARACHI, PAKISTAN, EARLY 1920-03. THE FIRST SINGLE ENGINED AEROPLANE FLIGHT FROM GREAT BRITAIN TO AUSTRALIA BY RAY PARER AND JOHN MCINTOSH. THIS PHOTO SHOWS A FELLOW COMPETITOR, CAPTAIN G. C. MATTHEWS STANDING IN FRONT OF HIS SOPWITH WALLABY. A CRASH AT BALI FORCED HIM TO ABANDON THE FLIGHT.