"We're pioneers, and pioneers take risks"- Charles Kingsford Smith

2015 was the 80th anniversary of the tragic loss of Kingsford Smith and Tommy Petherbridge on 8th Nov 1935 so I'd like to post this in commemoration..

Below- Fokker Southern Cross, 4-man crew and associates at Los Angeles in May 1928 before the first TransPacific flight to Australia.

2nd from left- Harry Lyon (American, navigator), 4th- Jim Warner (American, radio operator), 6th- Charles Kingsford Smith (Australian, pilot), far right-Charles Ulm (Australian, co-pilot)

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/CMSF/CMSF002/Southern-Cross-Los-Angeles-May-1928_zpsovb7y2bb.jpg~original

The TransPacific flight was in 3 hops-

1- California to Hawaii

2- Hawaii to Fiji

3- Fiji to Brisbane

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/CMSF/CMSF001/Southern-Cross-crew_zpszkusqfen.jpg~original

Southern Cross at Essendon, Melbourne in 1928 on post-Pacific tour-

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/CMSF/CMSF001/SC-Essendon-Melbourne-jun-1928_zpson1bqybn.jpg~original

Southern Cross over Sydney c.1933

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/CMSF/CMSF001/Southern-Cross-sydney-1932-1934_zpsryh74vrx.jpg~original

I bought this biopic disk set earlier this year, a dramatised account using actors-

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/CMSF/CMSF001/thous_zpszsjc2sfi.jpg~original

2015 was the 80th anniversary of the tragic loss of Kingsford Smith and Tommy Petherbridge on 8th Nov 1935 so I'd like to post this in commemoration..

Below- Fokker Southern Cross, 4-man crew and associates at Los Angeles in May 1928 before the first TransPacific flight to Australia.

2nd from left- Harry Lyon (American, navigator), 4th- Jim Warner (American, radio operator), 6th- Charles Kingsford Smith (Australian, pilot), far right-Charles Ulm (Australian, co-pilot)

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/CMSF/CMSF002/Southern-Cross-Los-Angeles-May-1928_zpsovb7y2bb.jpg~original

 

I bought this biopic disk set earlier this year, a dramatised account using actors-

 

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/CMSF/CMSF001/thous_zpszsjc2sfi.jpg~original

I never saw this movie, but I enjoyed the PG warning. Sounds like that reviewer has been in my garage while i "repaired" old cars!!