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A crowd gathered around the Southern Cross (VH-USU), c. 1931–35. Kingsford Smith, Ulm, and Gordon Taylor also made the first nonstop Trans-Tasman flight in the Southern Cross – over the Tasman Sea from Australia to New Zealand – beginning with the first crossing on 10–11 September 1928, a distance of 2,670 kilometres (1,660 mi). [12]
A model of the Lady Southern Cross on display near Brisbane Airport. The Lady Southern Cross was a Lockheed Altair monoplane owned by Australian pioneer aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. In this aircraft, Kingsford Smith made the first eastward trans-Pacific flight from Australia to the United States, in October and November of 1934.
The most significant event to occur in this period was the landing of the Southern Cross in June 1928. Squadron Leader Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm completed the first trans-Pacific flight from California to Brisbane, landing at Eagle Farm.
This is a list of airports in Florida (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
The Southern Cross landed at Eagle Farm Airport in Brisbane, Australia, on 9 June [2] before a crowd of 25,000 people. [3] [4] [5] They flew to Sydney the following day. James W. Warner and Charles Kingsford Smith on arrival, Brisbane, 9 June 1928. The flight of the Southern Cross marked the first successful use of radio on a long
The Airport Flyover is a four lane, 750-metre (2,460 ft) long cantilever bridge over the Southern Cross Way overpass. Construction began in April 2009. Construction began in April 2009. The total cost for the roundabout upgrade cost A$327 million and it was designed and built by a Thiess / John Holland Group joint venture . 10 minutes of travel ...
Kingsford Smith and his second wife Mary in Wellington, New Zealand. Charles Edward Kingsford Smith was born on 9 February 1897 at Riverview Terrace, Hamilton in Brisbane, Colony of Queensland, the son of William Charles Smith and his wife Catherine Mary (née Kingsford, daughter of Richard Ash Kingsford, a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and mayor in both Brisbane and Cairns ...
Brisbane Airport (IATA: BNE, ICAO: YBBN) is an international airport serving Brisbane, the capital of the Australian state of Queensland.The airport services 31 airlines flying to 50 domestic and 29 international destinations, total amounting to more than 22.7 million passengers who travelled through the airport in 2016.