• Title
  Sir Hudson Fysh - photographs, air crashes, 1923-1942
• Call number
  PXA 1063/277a-303
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1923-1942
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs, Ephemera
• Reference code
  447081
• Physical Description
  26 photographic prints - silver gelatin - 20.2 x 24.9 cm. or smaller
  1 photographic print - postcard - 8.4 x 13.8 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  277a. "Very nasty crash" - HF
  278-279. Bristol F.2b G-AUEB crash, pilot A.W. Vigers, Longreach, 18 Dec 1923
  280. AWFK8 G-AUCF crash, pilot Fysh, Jericho, 25 Feb 1923
  281-285. DH9c G-AUEF crash, pilot L. Brain, Cloncurry, 24 Sept 1926
  286-289. First fatal crash, DH9c G-AUEF crash, pilot A.D. Davidson, Tambo, 24 Mar 1927
  290-292. DH9c Ion G-AUFM crash, pilot L. Brain, Camooweal, 13 Feb 1928 (Dud Wright in pith helmet)
  293. Installing replacement engine in DH50A Pegasus VH-UGD, Donors Hill Station, 1928 (?)
  294. J. Moir and H. Owen's Vickers Vellore G-EBYX, Cape Don, 18 May 1929 / Jack Buscall
  295-296. DH50A Iris VH-UFA crash, pilot Eric Donaldson, Dajarra, 14 Jan 1934
  297-301. "None of these are Qantas crashes. They just illustrate crashes!" -- note in Fysh's hand on the reverse of the first of five photographs of Royal Air Force early crashes / Qantas
  302-303. ANA Lockheed Lodestar VH-CAH forced to crash land after Japanese anti-aircraft fire, Dobodura, 4 Dec 1942 (incl. Capt. Brain)
• 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
  "Qantas never crashed" - Dustin Hoffman as Raymond in the film Rain Man (1994). There have been Qantas passenger fatalities but Qantas has never lost a passenger in a jet aircraft. The last fatal crash (2 crew, 19 passengers) was a Constellation, Mauritius, 1960.
  
  Reference: Wings to the world
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Buscall, Jack
  Qantas Empire Airways
  
• Name
  Australian National Airways
  Brain, Lester Joseph, 1903-1980
  Great Britain. Royal Air Force
  Ion (biplane)
  Iris (biplane)
  Pegasus (biplane)
  Qantas Empire Airways
  Wright, Dud
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  aeronautics
  air accidents
  biplanes
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE7552663

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