DescriptionVickers Vimy, G-EAOU, first flight from England to Australia, 1919.jpg
English: Vickers Vimy, G-EAOU, First flight by Australians from England to Australia, 1919,
silver gelatin photo-print, State Library of New South Wales, PXB 1694
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Vickers Vimy, G-EAOU, First flight by Australians from England to Australia, 1919, silver gelatin photo-print, State Library of New South Wales, PXB 1694
On 10 March 1919 the Australian Government offered a 10 000 pound prize for the first flight by Australians from England to Australia. The prize was won by Captain Ross Smith, his brother Lieutenant Keith Smith and Sergeants JM Benett and WH Shiers in the twin-engine Vickers Vimy, G-EAOU. They left Hounslow, UK, on 12 November and arrived at Darwin, NT, on 10 December. Reference: Australian Encyclopedia, 4th edn., 1983.