Forgotten for a century, Australia's first sanctioned air mail flight re-enacted at Lismore
When stamp collector Geoff Wotherspoon heard that Australia's first sanctioned air mail flight might have happened in his home town of Lismore, he knew he had to find proof.
That flight was a crucial moment in the establishment of air mail services in regional Australia.
"It's like email; if you've got communication, you've got quicker economic development — in the early 1900s that connectivity was by mail," he said.
But on the New South Wales north coast in 1920, connectivity was slow.
It took four to five days for a letter to come from Sydney, and the same again to deliver a reply.
