Charles Kingsford Smith
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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.
Kingsford Smith in 1932
Kingsford Smith and his second wife Mary in Wellington, New Zealand
Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm in RAAF uniform
Kingsford Smith c. 1920
Transpacific flight
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A transpacific flight is the flight of an aircraft across the Pacific Ocean from Australasia, East and Southeast Asia to North America, Latin America, or vice versa. Such flights have been made by fixed-wing aircraft, balloons and other types of aircraft.
The Southern Cross at an RAAF base near Canberra in 1943.
Route, shown on first edition cover of descriptive book of the flight
Southern Cross 1928
A photograph commemorating the first trans-Pacific flight.