Kingsford-Smith

British  

/ ˈkɪŋzfədˈsmɪθ /

noun

1. Sir Charles ( Edward ). 1897–1935, Australian aviator and pioneer (with Charles Ulm) of trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman flights

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Example Sentences

“Just being able to come home without having to go to quarantine is huge,” arriving passenger Carly Boyd told reporters at Sydney’s Kingsford-Smith Airport, where Peter Allen’s unofficial national anthem “I Still Call Australia Home” was playing.

From Seattle Times

Casting aside all pretense of subtlety, Congress then bestowed the Cross in turn on de Pinedo, Coste and Lebrix � all deserving flyers, thinks Writer Allen, but so are a score of others illogically excluded, among them: Balchen, Acosta, Chamberlin, the late Wilmer Stultz, Brock & Schlee, Yancey & Williams, Kingsford-Smith.

From Time Magazine Archive

Surely an intelligible radio bearing should come to guide them Major Charles Kingsford-Smith scowled at the grey fog outside his cockpit, cursed the compasses that pointed crazily to East and West.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1928 he turned to aviation, backed two Australian pilots, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles T. P. Ulm, in the first transpacific flight ever made.

From Time Magazine Archive

At week's end no one knew whether Miss Earhart was another Kingsford-Smith, who was lost forever in the Bay of Bengal, or another Ellsworth, who was found snug and happy in Antarctica after a two-month search which gave him more dramatic publicity than he had ever before received.

From Time Magazine Archive