PHOTO OF THE DAY January 5, 2006  

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

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)


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