• Title
  Sir Hudson Fysh - photographs, mainly early biplanes, 1920-1934
• Call number
  PXA 1063/167-232
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1920-1934
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  447049
• Physical Description
  66 photographs - silver gelatin photoprints & postcards - 20 x 25 cm. or smaller
  
• Scope and Content
  167. Imperial Airways Astraea G-ABTL, 1933
  168-170. Airco DH 4
  171. Fysh and DH 4, pride of the fleet, 1922
  172. Arthur Baird and Claude McGilivray with DH 4, Cloncurry
  173. Fysh, Baird and DH 4
  174. D. Simpson (centre), pilot Evans, QATD ambulance officer with DH 50 Hermes, first flight Cloncurry-Mt Isa, 2 Aug 1927
  175. Flying Doctor DH 50A VH-UFA, Innamincka, 1 Aug 1934 : Mannie Anderson (radio operator), Dr J. McF. Russell (Flying Doctor) and Sister Doreen Mandeville-Halls (AIM nursing sister) - "on this flight radio advice regarding treatment of the patient was given while plane was in flight, the first time this was done as far as I know. Also the first Flying Doctor visit to Innamincka - GS"
  176-178. Royal Aircraft Factory BE 2e
  179. Herb Huey, hon. engineer, works on BE 2e engine in first shelter at Longreach Shear Yards (?)
  180. BE 2e
  
  181-4. BE 2e G-AUBF - "The best plane of all"
  185-186. First flight over floods, (BE 2e G-AUBF, Charleville-Gowrie Station, 1922)
  187. Fysh washing the unregistered BE 2e, Thargomindah, 1921
  188. Arthur Baird and George Davidson repair DH 4, Longreach
  189. Fysh, Arthur Baird and DH 4, Longreach
  190. Edgar Percival's Avro 504K G-AUEP in the "Bull Paddock", Mascot, 1925 - l to r: F.Jordan, C.James, H.Defty
  191. DH 9c G-EAYT of the De Havilland Aeroplane Hire Service, Eng.
  192. DH 9c reconstructed with cabin designed at Longreach
  193. DH 9c
  194. DH 9c G-AUEF and DH 4 G-AUBZ, Winton / W.I.P. Burns
  
  195-196. DH 9c G-AUEF and 3 passengers, 1923
  197. Arrival of first DH 9c, Charleville, 1923 - Capt. G. Matthews (pilot), left; A.N. Templeton (director, Qantas), right / W.I.P. Burns
  198. DH 9c G-AUED, Camooweal
  199. DH 9c G-AUED with passengers / Qantas
  200. DH 9c G-AUEF / Qantas
  201. Capt. Matthews and DH 9c, Charleville, 1923 / W.J.P. Burns
  202. Airways Armstrong Whitworth AW15 Atalanta VT-AEF and De Havilland biplane VR-SAI
  203. Coffin flown Mt Isa-Brisbane, DH 50A VH-UHE Atalanta / Qantas
  204-205. First DH 50 built in Longreach, 1924
  
  206. First DH 50 built at Longreach and builders
  207. Governor-General Lord Stonehaven talks with Fergus McMaster, both with hat in hand; Fysh getting out of DH 50 cockpit
  208. DH 50 air mail leaving Winton / W.J.P. Burns for Qantas
  209. First DH 50 G-AUER of Qantas arrives / W.J.P. Burns
  210. DH 50 taxiing
  211. Lord and Lady Stonehaven and the Longreach-built DH 50 Iris
  212. Patient transferred from DH 50A Iris after being flown 1250 miles from Camooweal to Brisbane (to save his leg injured in a shooting accident)
  213. Eric Donaldson and the Flying Doctor in DH 50 VH-UER Victory
  214. Capt. P.H. Moody and Giant Moth DH 61
  215. Giant Moth DH 61, Eagle Farm / F.W. Thiel
  216. From left: BE 2e G-AUBF, Bristol G-AUEB, DH 9c G-AUED, DH 50 G-AUER Victory, Longreach, ca. 1924
  
  217. First aircraft owned by Qantas [Avro] on first flight Longreach-Winton - l to r: Fysh, A.N. Templeton (director), Fergie McMaster (Chair), C.M. Knight (first commission agent to own aircraft)m, Capt. P.J. McGuiniss [i.e. McGinness], 1921
  218-219. Farman Sport G-AUBV which Fysh flew, Mascot, 1921
  220-221. Bristol F.2b G-AUEB delivered by H.C. "Horrie" Miller, Longreach
  222-223. Fred Haig and Bristol F.2b G-AUEB
  224. Fred Haig (pilot), J. Hazlett (engineer), Mrs Hargreaves (Qantas agent, McKinley) and Mrs Marsh (passenger) with Bristol F.2b, McKinley Aerodrome, 8 July 1923
  225-226. Dini's New Zealand biplane reg. no. ZK-ACW / Auckland Weekly News ; W.S. Dini, 76 Albans St, Christchurch
  227. Fokker F.VIIB-3M (KNILM) PK-AFB
  228. Liberator II (RAF, later for BOAC) G-AGKT
  229. DH 60 Moth G-AUFR, marked Brisbane Flying School, Qantas Ltd
  230. DH-50A G-AUHE refuelled by C.Holdway, carrier, at Roma
  231. DH-50A G-AUFW
  232. DH 86A VH-USD, early start, Batavia
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Contents list devised from the reverse of the photographs and Flypast
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  PXA 1063/173 - "Just before the [?] of the D.H. 4. I have my flying cap under my arm. Arthur Beard [sic] is on my right. She is a lovely machine." -- in ink in Fysh's hand on the reverse of the postcard.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Auckland Weekly News
  Burns, W. J. P.
  Qantas Empire Airways
  Thiel, Fred W.
  
• Name
  Astraea (aeroplane)
  Atalanta (biplane)
  Baird, W. Arthur
  Donaldson, Eric
  Flying Doctor Service of Australia
  Fysh, Hudson, Sir, 1895-1974
  Hermes (biplane)
  Iris (biplane)
  Moody, P. H.
  Qantas Empire Airways
  Stonehaven, Ethel Baird, Lady, 1874-1974
  Stonehaven, John Lawrence Baird, Viscount, 1874-1941
  Victory (biplane)
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  children
  
• Topic
  aeronautics
  aeroplanes
  airports
  aviators
  passengers
  portraits
  
• Place
  Charleville (Qld.)
  Cloncurry (Qld.)
  Longreach (Qld.)
  Mascot (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8581163

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