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	England to Australia flight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1919 the Commonwealth Government of Australia offered a prize of £10,000 for the first flight by Australians in a British aircraft from Hounslow or Calshot in England to Australia accomplished within 720 hours.
		The flight distance was estimated as 17,911 kilometers and total flying time was 135 hours 55 minutes.
		Repairs were made and the flight continued, still with engine problems, Eventually the plane crash-landed against a fence for a mental hospital in Crete.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/England_to_Australia_flight (423 words)

	Australia Cheap Domestic Flight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		England to Australia flight - In 1919 the Commonwealth Government of Australia offered a prize of Â£10,000 for the first flight by Australians in a British aircraft from Hounslow or Calshot in England to Australia accomplished within 720 hours.
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	FlightSim.Com: Celebrating Women's History Month
		Her interest in flying stemmed from the 1919 England to Australia flight by Ross and Keith Smith, and later solo flights, including Charles Kingsford Smith who gave Batten her first airplane ride.
		In 1935, she broke James Mollison's records for England to Brazil and Dakar to Natal while becoming the first woman to solo across the South Atlantic.
		Throughout the flight, the physical and mental capabilities of the pilots were continually tested by mechanical and severe weather problems, as well as cramped quarters.
	www.flightsim.com /cgi/kds?$=main/feature/whm20063.htm (1146 words)

	Jean Batten (1909 -1982), New Zealand Pioneer Aviatrix
		Almost immediately she began to plan a solo flight from England to Australia, in an attempt to break the 19½-day women's record set earlier that year by the English pilot Amy Johnson.
		Batten became an instant sensation in Australia, New Zealand and in England upon her return flight the next year (it was the first round trip by a woman).
		She flew the Vega Gull from England to Brazil in 1935 in 61 hours 15 minutes; from England to Australia in five days 21 hours (en route to New Zealand in 1936); and in the spectacular solo record time of five days 18 hours 15 minutes from Australia back to England in 1937.
	www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/jean_batten_bio.html (5833 words)

	Science Museum \| Amy Johnson \| Flight to Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The aircraft for her epic flight was delivered only three weeks prior to her planned journey.
		She was attempting to break the light aeroplane record for a solo flight to Australia.
		The final lap of the journey to Darwin was completed in the afternoon of Saturday, 24th May. She did not break the record, but she gained the distinction of being the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.
	www.sciencemuseum.org.uk /on-line/amy-johnson/page3.asp (782 words)

	Reaching Down Under: Record Setting Flights to Australia
		Medal commemorating the flight of Bert Hinkler to Darwin, Australia, Feb. 1928.
		That year, the Australian government, which was interested in expanding aviation in its country, sponsored a race from England to Australia that set off a series of contests between several Aussie pilots.
		Throughout the flight, Smithy and his crew watched their fuel consumption very closely; it was a major concern because of the long distances of the individual legs.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/Australia/EX9.htm (1530 words)

	Connemara.net news: Replica Alcock and Brown aircraft set for Clifden Museum?
		After the war, these planes made three historic flights, illustrating the possibility of long distance aviation and inspiring the development of other aircraft for the purpose.
		The first direct transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to Ireland paved the way for subsequent 'firsts', such as the first England to Australia flight (also in 1919) and then England to Cape Town, South Africa, the following year.
		In June 2003, the replica Vimy will be recreating the historic transatlantic flight - the 'icing on the cake' - as part of a packed year-long programme of aviation events.
	www.connemara.net /news/index.php?id=324 (547 words)

	National Geographic Magazine - Flight of the Vimy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The flight has shown that the Atlantic flight is practicable, but think it should be done not with an aeroplane or seaplane, but with a flying boat.
		Asked for the lessons of the flight Capt. Alcock replied, "It has shown that flying the Atlantic is a practicable job, but I think it should be done with a flying-boat, not a seaplane or an aeroplane."
		Building off the enthusiasm garnered by the first transatlantic flight and the flight from England to Australia, the South African government offered the same £10,000 prize to the first pilots to successfully fly from London to Cape Town, South Africa—a feat that had been attempted but not yet completed.
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	Life in Australia: Michael Hiestand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It's roughly 19 million people for Australia and 270 million for the U.S. And that's in a land mass the size of the continental U.S. So it's hard for them to spread around the cost of things like building big highways.
		One day I took an overnight flight from New Zealand to the middle of Australia on a plane with the Olympic torch, and it landed at that famous red rock Uluru.
		Australia has a very famously tight immigration policy at the moment, even though it's a largely empty country.
	www.usatoday.com /community/chat/0919hiestand.htm (3537 words)

	No. 172: Herbert J. L. Hinkler
		He first tried to make the flight in 1920, but he had to turn back at Rome.
		He set his first official record on a flight from England to Latvia, and he finally made his flight to Australia in 1928.
		But there he clearly was one of the many driven geniuses who helped shape the reality of flight out of the stuff of dreams.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi172.htm (559 words)

	Aviationboom - Pioneers Jean Batten
		Also first direct flight from England to Auckland.
		Established on same flight: England - Australia solo record, 10,500 miles in 5 days 21 hours total elapsed time.
		Australia - England solo record, 5 days 18 hours 15 minutes.
	www.aviationboom.com /pioneers/jean_batten.shtml (280 words)

	Flight
		Flight has fascinated humans for as long as we have looked skyward and seen birds soaring gracefully above the trees.
		Flight has made the world a plane trip away.
		Also in 1919, the Australian government offered a prize of $50,000 for the first flight from England to Australia by an Australian crew flying in a plane made in the British Empire.
	www.yesmag.bc.ca /focus/flight/flight.html (487 words)

	Women Aviation Pioneers of Australian and New Zealand Skies 1900 -2000
		The first Australian woman to fly solo from England to Australia, she was also the first female flying instructor in Australia and the British Empire, gaining her Instructor's Rating in 1933.
		PEGGY Kelman was an aviation pioneer and adventurer, one of the first few in Australia with an aircraft and a licence to fly.
		She is one of Australia's aviation pioneers, and the first female pilot in the Commonwealth to carry passengers.
	www.ctie.monash.edu /hargrave/biography3.html (982 words)

	Going home to England - back to the old country
		was born in Grassington, Yorkshire, England in 1939.
		Tony had been married before, in England, and had two beautiful daughters, then aged 12 and 9 years, who came to Australia with him.
		Then a four hour flight, and a couple of weeks in the hotel, looking for a place to rent until we found a place to buy.
	www.what-why-wisdom.com /england.html (1103 words)

	Forging The Nation - England to Australia by air
		Just ten years after the tentative first powered flight in Australia, a hop of 400 metres, a twin-engined Vickers Vimy biplane, which had taken off in England, landed at Darwin.
		In 1919 the Australian government offered a £10,000 prize for the first Australian to fly from England to Australia.
		Members of the crew stand in front of the aircraft which was the first flight to be completed from England to Australia 1919 in the Vickers Vimy commercial type twin engined machine.
	www.awm.gov.au /forging/future/england_to_australia.htm (189 words)

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	1919 England to Australia Vimy Flight- first Airmail? [Archive] - Key Publishing Ltd Aviation Forums
		In 1919 Ross and Keith Smith flew their Vickers Vimy in the first flight from England to Australia, and carried some flight covers/mail with them, this being the first airmail between the two country's and the first international mail into Australia.
		The flight took 28 days of which 135 hours and 55 minutes was spent in the air.
		As I said its existance is largely unknown by the average Australian, nor the men and historic flight it undertook, which is really sad for a nation which played such a role in pioneering long distance flight.
	forum.keypublishing.com /archive/index.php?t-45636.html (1277 words)

	Vimy Aircraft Project \| Flights \| England to Australia
		Our twin-engine biplane, a replica of the open cockpit, World War I era Vickers Vimy bomber, was going down.
		So begins Peter McMillan's book, The Greatest Flight, which chronicled his journey with Lang Kidby from England to Australia in a Vickers Vimy biplane in 1994.
		The book, with incredible photographs by National Geographic photographer Jim Stanfield, details every aspect of the flight, from preparation to landing, and provides an account of the original England to Australia flight in 1919.
	www.vimy.org /flights/englandtoaustralia/index.html (151 words)

	Mary Garden Quotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The England to Australia flight was one of my father's many flying feats up to the late 1940s, when he suddenly turned his back on aviation and became a market gardener in Tauranga, New Zealand.
		But this particular flight in 1930 was the most memorable.
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	1919 in Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		See also: 1918 in Australia, other events of 1919, 1920 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.
		December 10 - Keith and Ross Smith, piloting a Vickers Vimy, reach Darwin at the end of the first England to Australia flight
		The worldwide Spanish flu epidemic continues, eventually claiming almost 12,000 lives in Australia
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1919_in_Australia (175 words)

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