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• Nancy Bird 1933 on wheel of Metal Moth VH-VOP belonging to Tommy Petherbridge / by unknown photographer

  • Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
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  • 11 comments
  • 60 favorites
  • 61,045 views
  • Date taken: 1933
  • Date uploaded: 2009-01-13
  • Tags: statelibraryofnewsouthwales, nancybird, nancybirdwalton, aviators, pilots, women, airplanes, aeroplanes, metalmoth, tommypetherbridge, vhvop, dehavilland, foaf:depicts=httpnlagovaunlaparty634679, xmlns:foaf=httpxmlnscomfoaf01, aviation, aircraft, airplane, biplane, aviatrix
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• Jocelyn Howarth and Nancy Bird, ca. 1930-33 / by unknown photographer

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  • 7 comments
  • 64 favorites
  • 49,808 views
  • Date taken: 1932
  • Date uploaded: 2009-01-13
  • Tags: statelibraryofnewsouthwales, flying, flight, women, airplane, black, white, nancybird, airplanes, pilots, aviators, mygoditsawoman, nancybirdwalton, aeroplanes, jocelynhowarth, constanceworth, aviatrix, foaf:depicts=httpnlagovaunlaparty634679, xmlns:foaf=httpxmlnscomfoaf01, aviation, biplane, aircraft, howarth
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• Brisbane-Singapore air service (DH 86) advertisement, ca. 1935 / H.B. Green & Co.

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  • 8 comments
  • 24 favorites
  • 34,680 views
  • Date taken: 2006-04-21 14:13:31
  • Date uploaded: 2009-05-14
  • Tags: qantas, dehavilland, biplane, propeller, design, ad, advertisement, colour, slide, flight, hbgreenco, qantasempireairways, dh86, 1934, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, cloncurry, aviation, aircraft, airplane, dehavillanddh86, airlines, airliners, vhusc, cn2307, 2307, royalaustralianairforce, raaf, a315, graphic, typography
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• Crew checking fuselage; First England-Australia flight, Keith and Ross Smith, 1919 - Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia / photographer unknown

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  • 6 comments
  • 112 favorites
  • 33,344 views
  • Date taken: 1919
  • Date uploaded: 2014-02-19
  • Tags: aviation, aircraft, airplane, biplane, vickers, vickersvimy, vimy, aviator, aviators, rossmacphersonsmith, rossmsmith, rmsmith, rosssmith, smith, keithmacphersonsmith, keithmsmith, kmsmith, keithsmith, whwallyshiers, whshiers, wallyshiers, shiers, jamesmbennett, jmjimbennett, jmbennett, jimbennett, bennett, geaou, bomber, godelpallofus
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• W.E. Hart in his Boxkite biplane, 1911 / photographed by J. L. Turner

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  • 4 comments
  • 56 favorites
  • 30,501 views
  • Date taken: 1911
  • Date uploaded: 2008-09-22
  • Tags: statelibraryofnewsouthwales, boxkitebiplane, biplane, smoke, bw, 1911, aviation, flight, silvergelatin, boxkite, hart, first, historic, poweredflight, pilot, australia, turner, wehart
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• Houdini airborne in his Voisin at Diggers Rest, 1910, by Marcel Poupe

  • Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
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  • 23 comments
  • 219 favorites
  • 29,077 views
  • Date taken: 1910-03
  • Date uploaded: 2011-03-24
  • Tags: aviation, aircraft, airplane, biplane, voisin, voisinbiplane, aviator, magician, harryhoudini, houdini
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• William Hart, Ascot Racecourse, 15 June 1912

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  • 9 comments
  • 88 favorites
  • 28,800 views
  • Date taken: 1912-06-12 19:14:57
  • Date uploaded: 2008-09-22
  • Tags: statelibraryofnewsouthwales, pics4school, botany, newsouthwales, sydney, biplane, aviation, jjhammond, boxkitebiplane, flight, sepia, pilot, samhood, hood, aeronautics, boxkite, ascot, 1911, poweredaircraft, first, historic, steampunk
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• Arrival of first aerial mail in Brisbane on De Havilland DH 61 Giant Moth, April 23rd 1929, P. H. Moody, Pilot

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  • 3 comments
  • 23 favorites
  • 20,808 views
  • Date taken: 1929-04-23 15:49:24
  • Date uploaded: 2008-09-22
  • Tags: statelibraryofnewsouthwales, dh61, giantmoth, dehavilland, airplane, aeroplane, aircraft, flight, biplane, 1929, phmoody, pilot, antiquetruck, airmail, brisbane, historic, bw
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• Five Westland Wapitis of No 3 Squadron, RAAF, fly past the GPO clock which shows "One-Minute's Silence", Armistice Day, 11am, 11 November 1934 / photographer Sam Hood

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  • 3 comments
  • 37 favorites
  • 18,442 views
  • Date taken: 1934-11-11 11:00:00
  • Date uploaded: 2011-11-04
  • Tags: clocktower, halfmast, flag, westlandwapiti, biplane, flypast, royalaustralianairforce, armisticeday1934, 11am11november1934, remembranceday1934, airplanes
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• Loading aeroplanes with Christmas supplies for transport to flood bound "Tinnenburra" station in Queensland. Bourke railway station in background - Bourke, NSW, c. 1930

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  • 2 comments
  • 8 favorites
  • 15,189 views
  • Date taken: 1930
  • Date uploaded: 2011-12-19
  • Tags: aviation, aircraft, airplane, biplane, airplanes, vhupn, christmasacrossthecommons
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• Labourers pulling Vickers Vimy out of a bog, Sourabaya, Java, first flight by Australians from England to Australia, 1919

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  • 0 comments
  • 14 favorites
  • 12,500 views
  • Date taken: 1919
  • Date uploaded: 2019-12-09
  • Tags: aeronautics, calssic, race, ross, kethsmith, smith, vickersvimy, geaou, australia, england, java, northernterritory, flight, pilots, vintage, astronauts, flying, first, 1919, godelpallofus, aviation, aircraft, airplane, biplane
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• A remarkable crash

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  • 0 comments
  • 26 favorites
  • 11,587 views
  • Date taken: 1917
  • Date uploaded: 2014-04-22
  • Tags: biplane, britain, crash, war
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• Vickers Vimy, G-EAOU, First flight by Australians from England to Australia, 1919

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  • 1 comment
  • 12 favorites
  • 9,822 views
  • Date taken: 1919
  • Date uploaded: 2019-12-09
  • Tags: aeronautics, calssic, race, ross, kethsmith, smith, vickersvimy, geaou, australia, england, java, northernterritory, flight, pilots, vintage, astronauts, flying, first, 1919, aviation, aircraft, airplane, biplane, bomber, godelpallofus
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• Vickers Vimy, G-EAOU, used in the first flight by Australians from England to Australia, 1919

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  • 0 comments
  • 14 favorites
  • 9,474 views
  • Date taken: 1919
  • Date uploaded: 2019-12-09
  • Tags: aeronautics, calssic, race, ross, kethsmith, smith, vickersvimy, geaou, australia, england, java, northernterritory, flight, pilots, vintage, astronauts, flying, first, 1919, godelpallofus, aviation, aircraft, airplane, bomber, biplane
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• Pilot in De Havilland DH-60M Moth VH-UOZ, Mascot, Sydney, 1934 / photographer Sam Hood

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  • 1 comment
  • 11 favorites
  • 9,266 views
  • Date taken: 2010-03-26 11:09:11
  • Date uploaded: 2010-03-26
  • Tags: dehavilland, biplane, pilot, vhuoz, dehavillandmoth
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• Stuck in the bracing wires, Vickers Vimy, G-EAOU, first flight by Australians from England to Australia, 1919

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  • 0 comments
  • 5 favorites
  • 9,186 views
  • Date taken: 1919
  • Date uploaded: 2019-12-09
  • Tags: aeronautics, calssic, race, ross, kethsmith, smith, vickersvimy, geaou, australia, england, java, northernterritory, flight, pilots, vintage, astronauts, flying, first, 1919, godelpallofus, aviation, aircraft, airplane, biplane, bomber
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• Portrait of aviator John Robertson Duigan, Bendigo, Victoria 1911

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  • 1 comment
  • 44 favorites
  • 8,937 views
  • Date uploaded: 2022-01-27
  • Tags: aviationinaustralia, duigan, 1911, bendigo, pioneer, aviators, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, aviation, aircraft, airplane, biplane, johnrobertsonduigan
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