In 1919 the Australian government offered a prize of £10,000 for the first Australians in a British aircraft to fly from Great Britain to Australia. Of the six entries that started the race, the winners were from left: Wally Shiers, Keith Smith, his brother Ross Smith, as co-pilot, and James Bennett, who flew a modified Vickers Vimy bomber.

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