Ground crew preparing escape artist Harry Houdini's Voisin Biplane, Diggers Rest, Victoria, March 1910 [picture]
- Bib ID:
- 6342122
- Format:
- Picture
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1910
- 1 negative : glass, b&w ; 12.0 x 16.3 cm.
- Series:
- Fairfax archive of glass plate negatives
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- Title devised from accompanying information where available.
- Part of the: Fairfax archive of glass plate negatives.
- Fairfax number: 501.
- Condition: silvering.
- Published in: Century of pictures : 100 years of Herald photography / edited by Mike Bowers. Camberwell, Vic. : Penguin Viking, 2008, p. 6.
- On March 18, 1910, Harry performed the record Australian flight, 2 miles in 3 minutes 37 seconds, in a French Voisin Biplane. In a paddock at Diggers Rest, 20 miles from Melbourne, Harry Houdini and Ralph C. Banks were learning to fly. In the paddock stood two tents which housed Houdini's Voisin Biplane, and a "Wright Flyer" piloted by Ralph Banks. Unsuccessful attempts to take off were made by Houdini on March 17, but on March 18, 1910, the three successful flights were made.--Harry Houdini 1910 : Diggers Rest website (viewed 16/5/14 at http://www.houdini.diggersrest.com/)
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-163260088
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from Fairfax Media, 2012.
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Aviators
- Other authors/contributors:
- Fairfax Corporation
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- Creation date:
- 1910
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