Kingsford-Smith
Britishnoun
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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.
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Last week Australia's air hero Charles Kingsford-Smith flew from Port Darwin across the Timor Sea to Kupang, in his famed Southern Cross, and returned with the mail from the crippled City of Cairo.
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Costumes by Fokker From the trans-Atlantic flight of Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith in a Fokker plane, Fokker Aircraft Corp. got certain publicity.
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Critics charged Kingsford-Smith with trying to set up a "counter-attraction" to the main show.
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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.
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