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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]
Brisbane Airport has won a number of awards, including being rated as Australia's No. 1 airport for quality of service 10 years in a row (2005–2014 inclusive) in a survey by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, [114] and being ranked as 3rd Best Airport in the world (for airports servicing between 20 and 30 million passengers per ...
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 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 ...
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 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.
VH-UMH Southern Sky, sold to Keith Virtue's New England Airways. VH-UMI Southern Moon. Sold 1933 to Charles Ulm, rebuilt as the long-distance flight aircraft VH-UXX Faith in Australia. VH-UNA Southern Sun (crashed November 1931) VH-USU Southern Cross, owned privately by Kingsford Smith and Ulm. VH-UOB Avro Avian, used for flight training. [8]
[4]: 145 The name is in honor of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's historic 1928 flight in the aircraft Southern Cross. [5] The equivalent route running through the Eastern Hemisphere is known as the Kangaroo Route. [6] Qantas operated on the route from 1949 — 1974, when it discontinued the London leg of the trip.