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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
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Harry Lyon [navigator] left, James Warner [right] ca. 1928 The Southern Cross landing in Brisbane in 1928.. American Harry Lyon (1885?–1963? [1]), was the navigator for the first flight across the Pacific in 1928 with Charles Kingsford Smith (as pilot), Charles Ulm (as co-pilot) and fellow-American James Warner as the (radio operator) in the Southern Cross.
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]