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Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew landed the Southern Cross in Brisbane, completing the first transpacific flight.
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Charles Kingsford Smith
Australian aviator (1897–1935)
Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith, nicknamed Smithy, was an Australian aviation pioneer. He piloted the first transpacific flight and the first flight between Australia and New Zealand.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Southern Cross (aircraft)
Historically significant small fixed-wing aircraft
The Southern Cross is a Fokker F.VIIb/3m trimotor monoplane that was flown by Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm, Harry Lyon and James Warner in the first-ever trans-Pacific flight to Australia from the mainland United States, a distance of about 11,670…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Brisbane
Capital city of Queensland, Australia
Brisbane is the capital and largest city of the state of Queensland and the third-most populous city in Australia, with a population of approximately 2.8 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of South East Queensland, an urban agglomeration with a population of over 4 million.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Transpacific flight
Flight of an aircraft across the Pacific Ocean
A transpacific flight is the flight of an aircraft across the Pacific Ocean from Australasia, East and Southeast Asia to North America, South America, or vice versa. Such flights have been made by fixed-wing aircraft, balloons and other types of aircraft.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)