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May 7, 2003
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Near Mount Isa, Australia
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1994
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James L. Stanfield
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The twin-engine biplane pictured is a replica of the open cockpit, World War I-era Vickers Vimy bomber. In 1919 two Australians piloted a nearly identical craft from Australia to Britain—a first.
—Photographed on assignment for, but not published in "The Vimy Flies Again," May 1995, National Geographic magazine
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