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Clearly
a posed photograph, Smithy appears most uncomfortable as he pretends
to eat his lunch atop the Lady Southern Cross. The photo was
taken at the Lockheed factory at Burbank probably circa August 1935
as the engineless Altair was being prepared the the planned England-Australia
flight.
 Picture: World
Wide Photos / Los Angeles Bureau by permission of the National Library
of Australia (LOS #53389 S /10/35) |