Print, Photographic, 'Faith in Australia', Waikareao Estuary, Tauranga
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An unmounted velox vernacular print showing a monoplane on beach surrounded by on- lookers. Small boy in foreground. Plane has 'Faith in Australia' on side of fuselage. On reverse writing illegible. The 'Bay of Plenty Times', 29 December 1933, reported landing. Plane was an Avro 10 machine of Fokker design powered by 3 Wright Whirlwind 7 cylinder engines. Cruising speed 100 m.p.h. Seated 14 passengers.
The plane was flown by Charles Ulm (1898-1934) was a pioneering Australian aviator. When he was 16 years old he joined the Australian army and was wounded at Gallipoli. He won fame as Charles Kingsford Smith’s co-pilot on many flights including in 1928 the first crossing of the Pacific. In 1933 in his “Faith in Australia” set the speed record for the flight from England to Australia taking 6 days, 17 hours, 56 minutes. In 1934 he carried the first official airmail from New Zealand to Australia. Ulm disappeared in December 1934 on a test flight from Oakland CA. to Hawaii in his “Stella Australis”. (Researched by Shirley Arabin, Collection volunteer, 2022)
The plane was flown by Charles Ulm (1898-1934) was a pioneering Australian aviator. When he was 16 years old he joined the Australian army and was wounded at Gallipoli. He won fame as Charles Kingsford Smith’s co-pilot on many flights including in 1928 the first crossing of the Pacific. In 1933 in his “Faith in Australia” set the speed record for the flight from England to Australia taking 6 days, 17 hours, 56 minutes. In 1934 he carried the first official airmail from New Zealand to Australia. Ulm disappeared in December 1934 on a test flight from Oakland CA. to Hawaii in his “Stella Australis”. (Researched by Shirley Arabin, Collection volunteer, 2022)
Production place
Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Measurements
52mm (height) 82mm (width)
Accession number
0211/08
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