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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 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
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]
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 ...
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Southern Cross Route is a term for passenger flights from Australasia (or Oceania) to Europe via the Western Hemisphere. The term was coined by British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines when they began services from Sydney to Vancouver in 1949.
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