Aviator Charles Kingsford Smith’s Lockheed Altair plane being unloaded at Woolloomooloo from the tennis deck of the ship Mariposa. The aircraft arrived in Sydney in July 1934 fully assembled for use in the Centenary Air Race, but getting the plane to Mascot airport by road posed a problem. Instead it was towed on a barge to Anderson Park in Neutral Bay, where ‘Smithy’ used the tiny park as a runway. Reporters claimed it was like taking off from a pocket-handkerchief, but the take-off, in front of some 500 people, was a success.