In June 1928, Charles Kingsford Smith flew a heavily overloaded Fokker trimotor from Oakland to Brisbane, becoming the first crew to cross the Pacific Ocean by air.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores Charles Kingsford Smith, the Southern Cross, and the First Flight Across the Pacific in Nineteen Twenty-Eight.
TaildraggerIn 1928, Charles Kingsford Smith flew the Southern Cross across the Pacific for the first time - a 7,000-mile journey no one had dared before.
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