PHOTO OF THE DAY November 25, 2005  

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Where Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
When 1994
Photographer James L. Stanfield

In 1919 a Vickers Vimy biplane won the Great London-to-Australia Air Derby. Seventy-five years later pilots matched the feat in this Vimy replica.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Vimy Flies Again," May 1995, National Geographic magazine)


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