The machine starting up just before the take-off from Richmond aerodrome. -Sydney Sun, photo
On Tuesday morning, January 10, at 2.44 o’clock (Sydney time) Lieutenant Moncrieff and Captain Hood left Richmond aerodrome in a Ryan monoplane. This was the first attempt to fly from Australia to New Zealand. The adventure has ended in disaster, no trace of the airmen or their machine having been discovered.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3854, 24 January 1928, Page 41
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65The machine starting up just before the take-off from Richmond aerodrome. -Sydney Sun, photo On Tuesday morning, January 10, at 2.44 o’clock (Sydney time) Lieutenant Moncrieff and Captain Hood left Richmond aerodrome in a Ryan monoplane. This was the first attempt to fly from Australia to New Zealand. The adventure has ended in disaster, no trace of the airmen or their machine having been discovered. Otago Witness, Issue 3854, 24 January 1928, Page 41
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