The aircraft in question was a converted Vickers Vimy bomber registered G-EAOU to which it was dubbed to mean by the crew rather wittingly as 'God 'elp all of us'. The Vimy departed at 08:30 from Hounslow Heath and flew via Lyon, Rome, Cairo, Damascus, Basra, Karachi, Delhi, Calcutta, Akyab, Rangoon racecourse, Singora, Singapore, Batavia and Surabaya enduring tremendous hardship and adversity including the need to consturct a temporary airstrip out of bamboo mats to become unstuck in Surabaya.
The crew reached Darwin in Australia at 16:10 on 10th December 1919 racking up a distance of over 11,000 miles and flight time of 136 hours in total. They were awarded prize money of £10,000 - a substantial sum at the time for their efforts. The same Vickers Vimy is now on display At Adelaide Airport.
