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The great European visit Memorial flight game, 1925 colour…
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Melbourne
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28-Jun-2020
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The great European visit Memorial flight game, 1925 colour process lithograph with text in Japanese, 54.3 x 78.5 cm. Linen-backed, this attractive map and game board celebrates a trip by air from Tokyo to the major cities of Europe - a moment of Japanese national pride and a landmark event in Japanese aviation. It was published folded, as a supplement to the Asahi Shinbun issue of December 10, 1925. The trip was sponsored by that newspaper, one of Japan's oldest and most respected. In 1925, the paper had purchased two Breguet 19 French bi-planes, fitted them out with additional fuel tanks for long-range flights, named them Hatsukaze (first wind) and Kochikaze (East wind), and selected pilots and flight engineers. On July 25, 1925, the planes took off from Tokyo. Flying by way of China and Siberia, they visited Moscow, Berlin, Paris, London, and Brussels, arriving in Rome, their final stop, on October 27. They travelled 16,565 kilometres (more than 10,000 miles) in a little under 111 hours of flying time.
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