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Sydney, Pyrmont: Aviation Historical Society of Australia (NSW) Inc., 2018. Paperback trade, very good condition, stapled pamphlet, black & white & colour text-photos & drawings, light crease rear cover. 35 pp. This booklet by Tom Lockley is about the flight of the Vickers Vimy from Britain to Australia by Australians Ross and Keith Smith, Jim Bennett and Wally Shiers, who took off from Hounslow airfield on 12 November 1919 and 28 days later landed in Darwin after an amazing flight. They won the air race sponsored by the Australian Government. The airmen had hoped to fly from Darwin to Sydney in five days, leaving Darwin on 13 December 1919. They would then fly on to Adelaide. However, they were delayed by mechanical failures and by en route celebrations, and they reached Sydney in 64 days. They reached Adelaide another 38 days later. This booklet (pamphlet) gives a basic summary of their celebratory flight in Australia.