This marvellous photo shows the hangar area of Melbourne/Essendon Aerodrome in the early 1930s (before 1934). The takeoff and landing area itself was an all-over grass field. Something interesting appears to be happening around the Australian National Airways Avro X VH-UMI Southern Moon!

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