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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.
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.
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.
A small jet crash landed into a car in southwest Florida on Friday, killing two people in a fiery collision that forced the closure of Interstate 75 near Naples, officials say.
[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.
South Florida’s continuous stream of rain delayed the Panthers’ Wednesday flight to Edmonton International Airport by more than three hours. The team took off from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood ...