Bert Hinkler's Avro Avian welcomed by crowds in Queen Street, Brisbane, 1928

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

On 22 February 1928, Bert Hinkler touched down in Darwin after successfully completing the first solo flight between England and Australia, and in record breaking time, making the trip in only sixteen days.

From The Telegraph, Thursday 23 February, 1928:

HEROIC HINKLER

The world adores a brave man and a successful one. Lieutenant Bert Hinkler is both, and to-day he is the laurel-crowned hero of an aerial conquest that has literally set the world talking. Seventeen days ago he was in England.
Yesterday evening he landed on Australian soil an he had made the 10,500 miles journey by air under conditions which none but an exceedingly brave man would have faced.

He chose for his venture a diminutive monoplane in which there was no room for a companion, so that he had to be his own mechanic as well as pilot, and threw himself entirely on his own

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