A fully signed vintage photo-montage of the crew of the 'Southern Cross' displayed above a close-up view of the aircraft landing in Sydney on 10 June 1928, shortly after their historic first trans-Pacific flight (31 May to 9 June 1928)
Sydney, Broughton, Ward & Chaseling, 1928.
An original gelatin silver photograph, float-mounted as originally presented (image size 310 × 392 mm), behind glass in the original wooden frame (external dimensions 490 × 550 mm).
Minimal inoffensive silvering-out around the edges; original mount a little foxed; overall, in excellent condition (recently professionally reinserted in the original frame).
The photograph is signed in ink by all four aviators; the blindstamp of the photographers is in the bottom right-hand corner. Charles Kingsford Smith, fellow Australian pilot Charles Ulm, and two Americans, navigator Harry Lyon and radio operator James Warner, left Oakland in California on 31 May 1928. The pioneering flight ended on 9 June in Brisbane, after a journey of 11,585 kilometres completed in three stages. The flight time was 83 hours 38 minutes; the 5042-kilometre Hawaii-Fiji leg was at the time the longest trans-oceanic flight.
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