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110428PD: de Havilland Hercules at the Aerial Pageant, 6 October 1929.
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110429PD: RAAF Westland Wapitis performing a mail collecting manoeuvre at the Aerial Pageant, 6 October 1929.
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110430PD: RAAF Westland Wapitis flying in formation at the Aerial Pageant, 6 October 1929
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110431PD: Motor car on the racetrack at Ascot Racecourse used as a target (the 'tin hare') for RAAF Westland Wapitis dropping flour-bags as part of a bombing demonstration
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110432PD: RAAF Westland Wapitis dopping flour-bags as part of a bombing demonstration at the Aerial Pageant, 6 October 1929
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110460PD: Crowds watching a de Havilland Hercules in the air, at the Aerial Pageant, 6 October 1929.
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110461PD: RAAF Westland Wapitis or Western Australian Airways de Havilland Hercules flying in formation at the Aerial Pageant 6 October 1929
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Summary
Events included the RAAF Westland Wapitis and Western Australia Airways de Havilland Hercules performing aerial manoeuvres including flying in formation, mail collection, flour-bag bombing runs onto a moving car (the 'tin hare').
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Title devised by cataloguer from the photographer's captions.
Subjects
- De Havilland aircraft -- Western Australia -- Photographs.
- Westland airplanes -- Western Australia -- Photographs.
- Automobiles -- Western Australia -- Ascot -- Photographs.
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