Buzzing Aussie isles, pilots Peter McMillan and Lang Kidby are in the home stretch of their England-to-Australia flight in a replica Vickers Vimy biplane. In 1919 a Vimy made history by flying the same route and winning the Great London-to-Australia Air Derby.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Vimy Flies Again," May 1995, National Geographic magazine)