Retracing History
"Columbus did not take one-tenth the risk these bold air pioneers are facing," a newspaper said in 1919 of pilots competing to become the first to fly from London to Australia - in less than 30 days. The winners piloted a Vickers Vimy biplane; a replica of that open-cockpit craft, here buzzing past the Pyramids at Giza, retraced the flight in 1994.

Photograph by James L. Stanfield