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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]
While in operation, Charles Kingsford Smith landed at Eagle Farm on 9 June 1928, after completing the first trans-pacific flight in his Fokker F.VII, the Southern Cross. [16] There is now a museum containing the original aircraft, along with a memorial located within the Brisbane Airport precinct.
His most famous aircraft, the Southern Cross, is now preserved and displayed in a purpose-built memorial to Kingsford Smith near the International Terminal at Brisbane Airport. [65] Kingsford Smith sold the plane to the Australian Government in 1935 for £3000 so it could be put on permanent display for the public.
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 ...
On 24 March 2018, a Boeing 787 operated the first ever scheduled non-stop commercial flight between Australia and Europe. [70] Flight QF9, was a 17-hour, 14,498 km (9,009-mile) journey from Perth to London Heathrow. In 2019 Qantas launched 19-hour flights on a restricted payload between New York and London to Sydney with 787-9s.
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.
An area located near Eagle Farm Racecourse was initially used as a landing field in 1922 and Eagle Farm Aerodrome was officially opened in 1925. It was used for scheduled flights between Brisbane and Queensland regional centres by the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited (Qantas), which operated from Eagle Farm in 1926 and formed the Brisbane Flying Training School there ...