Kingsford-Smith
Britishnoun
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Last week Australians went wild with joy when their own idol, Wing Commander Charles Kingsford-Smith, landed his Avro Avian Southern Cross Jr. at Port Darwin ten days after leaving Heston Airdrome, north of London.
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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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The awards committee had deliberated long over the name of Coste and Wing-Commander Charles E. Kingsford-Smith, both transatlantic flyers.
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Next day Kingsford-Smith took it off safely, finished the 12,000-mi. flight.
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Few hours after the start of the Milden-hall-to-Melbourne Air Race three weeks ago Air Commodore Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith, Australia's No. 1 airman, took off from Brisbane for California.
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