Charles Kingsford-Smith

Charles Kingsford-Smith

Photobiography

Born in Hamilton, Queensland, 1897

Served in World War 1 and shot down two planes

Was awarded a Military Cross

Purchased a De Havilland DH6 plane and offered joy rides and performed hazardous movie stunts

Was hired by QANTAS as one of their five pilots to operate an airmail service

His dream flight across the Pacific Ocean came true on May 31st 1928

Jim Warner (navigator), Charles Ulm (co-pilot), Charles Kingsford-Smith (pilot) and Harry H. Lyon (navigator)

Oakland, California

Brisbane, Queensland

Start

Finish

Completed in 83 flying hours

Welcome home party in Sydney, Australia

Charles Kingsford-Smith made sixteen more historic fights in the following seventeen years

On the 8th of November 1935 Charles along with co-pilot Tommy Pethybridge took off from Allahabad for Singapore.

They were never seen again.