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	Charles Kingsford Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kingsford Smith was born in Brisbane, and was one of seven children.
		In 1933 Seven Mile Beach was used by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith as the runway for the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
		Charles Kingsford Smith The Pioneers - Aviation and Aeromodelling -
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Kingsford_Smith (789 words)

	CHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH : Encyclopedia Entry
		Kingsford Smith was demobilized in August 1917 after being shot down and receiving injuries which required a large part of his left foot to be amputated.
		Kingsford Smith Drive in Brisbane passes through the suburb of his birth, Hamilton, with Kingsford Smith Drive in the suburb of Belconnen, Canberra also bearing his name.
		Kingsford Smith was knighted in 1932 for services to aviation and later was appointed honorary Air Commodore of the Royal Australian Air Force.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Charles_Kingsford_Smith (971 words)

	Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
		Kingsford Smith was in the army cadets until 1915; when he turned 18, he enlisted in the AIF.
		For his achievements, Kingsford Smith was given honorary rank in the RAAF and awarded the Air Force Cross.
		Charles Kingsford Smith in the uniform of a pilot of the Royal Australian Air Force.
	www.awm.gov.au /fiftyaustralians/28.asp (411 words)

	CM Federation: Far North Queensland - pioneers of land, air and sea
		But long before Sir Charles Kingsford Smith made a name for himself in 1928 with his record-breaking crossing of the Pacific from California to Brisbane, his grandfather had ensured his own name would never be forgotten, at least by the people of Cairns.
		Kingsford arrived in the frontier town of Cairns in 1883 after an eight-year stint as member for South Brisbane in the Legislative Assembly and a one-term Brisbane mayor in 1876.
		Kingsford was buried in the old McLeod Street cemetery in 1902, but the amazing history of Fairview – which was bought by local businessman William Munro – had only just begun.
	www.news.com.au /couriermail/extras/federation/CMFedFNQSmith.htm (985 words)

	Charles Kingsford Smith Summary
		Kingsford Smith was born near Brisbane on February 9, 1897, the son of a bank manager who took the family to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, for four years.
		Kingsford Smith and two Australian veterans still in England in 1919 were refused permission to compete in the England/Australia Air Race for the 10,000 pound prize offered by the Australian government for the first flight halfway across the world.
		Kingsford Smith, Ulm, and their aircraft went on to make more records, including the first nonstop flight across Australia and the first flights across the stormy Tasman Sea to and from New Zealand.
	www.bookrags.com /Sir_Charles_Kingsford_Smith (1832 words)

	Print Article: Magnificent machines, home-grown legends
		Kingsford Smith, the captain, and Ulm, the organiser and second pilot, were joined by Americans Harry Lyon as navigator and Jim Warner as radio operator.
		In 1934 Kingsford Smith and Taylor flew a reverse flight across the Pacific from Sydney to California in a Lockheed Altair, the Lady Southern Cross.
		Kingsford Smith, who had been knighted in 1932, and his co-pilot Tommy Pethybridge, crashed somewhere off Burma trying to set an England-to-Australia record in November 1935.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/12/16/1071336964936.html (1363 words)

	Charles Kingsford Smith - Stories from Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal
		Charles Kingsford Smith was born in Hamilton (a suburb of Brisbane), Queensland, in 1897.
		Kingsford Smith was sent to Gallipoli, where he fought for a while and also worked as a despatch-rider on a motorbike.
		Kingsford Smith took quickly to flying planes, which were very primitive by today's standards.
	www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/kingsfordsmith (1546 words)

	Sir Charles Kingsford Smith book
		When Sir Charles Kingsford Smith’s aircraft Lady Southern Cross mysteriously disappeared off the coast of Burma in the dark of a tropical night in November 1935, the pioneer age of aviation lost, at the age of thirty eight, one of its most formidable and charismatic heroes.
		But Kingsford Smith was a man addicted to terror, as well as to fame and flying: his nightmarish experiences at the controls served only to drive him to embark upon journeys of ever greater danger.
		The biography looks beyond Kingsford Smith’s awesome flying exploits to examine a reckless character shaped by a childhood near drowning experience, the lasting trauma of service and wounding in the First World War, the forces of Empire that thwarted his deepest ambitions, and the jealousy and litigation that constantly swirled about him.
	www.ianmackersey.com /kingsford_smith_book/kingsford_smith_book.html (2308 words)

	Charles Kingsford Smith - Stories from Australia's Culture Portal
		Charles Kingsford Smith was born in Hamilton (a suburb of Brisbane), Queensland, in 1897.
		Kingsford Smith was sent to Gallipoli, where he fought for a while and also worked as a despatch-rider on a motorbike.
		Sir Charles Kingsford Smith Southern Cross medal, struck in 1935 to commemorate the aviator.
	www.acn.net.au /articles/kingsfordsmith (1553 words)

	The Pioneers : An Anthology : Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith (1897-1935)
		Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith was born in Hamilton, Brisbane, Australia on February 9, 1897 and graduated from Sydney Technical College as an Electrical Engineer at age 16.
		Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith was born in Brisbane in 1897, the youngest of seven children.
		Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith was born on 9th February, 1897; his father was a bank manager in Queensland, who later worked with Canadian Pacific Railways in Canada, subsequently returning to Sydney, Australia with his family.
	www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/k-smith.html (14645 words)

	ACM -Kingsford Smith Branch Incorporated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		August 8th, Kingsford Smith, Ulm, Litchfield and McWilIiams flew in the Southern Cross non-stop from Melbourne to Perth, 1,090 miles.
		Kingsford Smith, in Avro Avian `Southern Cross Minor' failed in an attempt to break Australia-England solo record through illness; but made the trip in I3 days.
		Kingsford Smith, Taylor and Stannage flew to New Zealand in `Southern Cross' in I4, hours.
	www.chilli.net.au /~rcolman/ksf/smithy.htm (677 words)

	Famous Fokker Flights
		Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith was born on February 9, 1897 in Brisbane.
		It was around this time that Kingsford-Smith began to dream of flying the Pacific from America to Australia, but apart from a lack of funds the state of the art made such a venture completely impractical, because of the far greater distances involved.
		In 1927, when he was a pilot with Interstate Flying Services, he and his colleague Charles Ulm found out that they had both fostered the same trans-Pacific ambition for a number of years.
	home-1.tiscali.nl /~lbb/smith.htm (6128 words)

	Ben's Homepage
		Kingsford Smith haalde nog meerdere malen de kranten door het maken van bijzondere vluchten.
		In 1929 vloog Kingsford Smith van 25 juni tot 10 juli van Australië naar Londen in een nieuwe recordtijd van 12 dagen en 18 uur vliegen.
		In 1935 verongelukte Kingsford Smith met een Lockheed Altair boven de Golf van Bengalen tijdens een poging het snelheidsrecord van Engeland naar Australië te verbeteren, nooit is er iets van hem teruggevonden.
	home.hccnet.nl /b.v.leeuwen (1944 words)

	CHARLES KINGSFORD-SMITH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Charles Kingsford-Smith was born in the Brisbane suburb of Hamilton, Australia, on February 9, 1897.
		Kingsford Smith and Ulm formed Australian National Airways Ltd in Sydney on December 12, 1928.
		In June 1932 Kingsford Smith was Knighted by the King of England.
	www.freemason.org /cfo/mar_apr_2002/twochucks.htm (541 words)

	Division of Kingsford Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Division of Kingsford Smith is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales.
		It is located in the south-eastern suburbs of Sydney, on the north shore of Botany Bay, and the coast of the Tasman Sea (a south-western segment of the Pacific Ocean).
		The Kingsford Smith International Airport (Sydney International), and the suburb of Kingsford, both of which are located within the Division, are also named after him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Division_of_Kingsford_Smith (261 words)

	Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith MC, aviator & war hero
		Lieutenant (Sir) Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith MC Charles Edward Kingsford Smith was born in Hamilton, Brisbane, Australia, February 9, 1897.
		In France Second Lieutenant C. Kingsford Smith was posted to No. 23, a scout squadron of the R.F.C. The pilots had to fill in a report every time they went aloft on active service.
		Kingsford Smith went on to become one of Australia's best known sons but that part of his story is for another place.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-heroes/k-smith-mc.htm (1464 words)

	Don Bradman
		Charles Kingsford Smith has been called the world’s greatest aviator.
		Charles Edward kingsford Smith was born in Brisbane in 1897, the youngest of seven children.
		Charles Kingsford Smith pioneered more long distance routes than any pilot in history.
	www.abc.net.au /schoolstv/australians/cksmith.htm (663 words)

	Charles Kingsford Smith
		For years, he was Australia's most famous personality, a small man with a ready wit, a drink and a cigarette in hand, and women at his side.
		Charles, or ‘Chilla’ as he was nicknamed was a small, energetic boy who loved adventure and would do anything for a dare.
		The fate of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith remains one of aviation's great unsolved mysteries.
	www.acepilots.com /wwi/pio_ksmith.html (1495 words)

	Charles Edward Kingsford Smith
		Charles Edward Kingsford Smith was born in Hamilton, Brisbane, Australia, February 9, 1897.
		On May 31, 1928, Kingsford Smith and his crew took off from Oakland, California, and arrived in Brisbane via Honolulu and Fiji eight days later.
		The pictures of Kingsford Smith and the Southern Cross where provided to the ALLSTAR website by Mr.
	www.allstar.fiu.edu /aero/ksmith.htm (305 words)

	Today in Technology History
		The trip was the dream of Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith (1897-1935), an Australian pilot who shot down several German planes during the First World War.
		He became interested in marathon airplane trips at least as early as 1919, and he spent much of the 1920s trying to create interest in a trip across the Pacific.
		Kingsford-Smith and his Australian copilot, Charles T. Ulm, both remained involved in aviation, and both died in plane crashes in the mid-1930s.
	www.tecsoc.org /pubs/history/2003/jun9.htm (450 words)

	schedule (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Charles A. Kingsford Smith, son of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith.
		Charles Ulm, grandson of Charles Ulm, the co-pilot on the pioneering 1928 first "Transpac" and an Australian "FAA" senior official.
		Columbia Records recording of 1928 speech by Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm.
	members.aol.com /compusailr/WAM/schedule.html (940 words)

	Charles Kingsford-Smith essays
		Charles Kingsford-Smith was born in the Brisbane suburb of Hamilton, Australia, on February 9, 1897, the youngest of seven children.
		A sentence was written in a different font, italic to show what Charles said that is "I have discovered one thing about flying and that is that my future, for whatever it may be worth, is bound up with it”.
		The documentary shows viewer’s that Charles is a talented man at a very young age and is a braved man who went to war at 18 years old.
	www.megaessays.com /viewpaper/708.html (593 words)

	1997 Sir Charles Kingsford Smith Unc Coin
		Sir Charles Kingsford Smith was described by his contemporaries as the greatest man ever to fly.
		Being of slender build and standing only 170 centimetres, Kingsford Smith was, physically, ideally suited to the cramped cockpits of aeroplanes from the 1920s and 1930s.
		Sir Charles Kingsford Smith met his fate with long time co-pilot Tommy Pethybridge in November 1935, off the coast of Burma.
	www.cruzis-coins.com /dollars/1997.html (213 words)

	History of Vancouver - Charles Kingsford-Smith
		The brothers had arrived in 1903, eight-year-old Charles and his mother and the rest of the children in 1905, but they all returned to Australia in 1911.
		Charles and his two sisters used to climb Grouse Mountain, but that was before there was road or a ski-lift to the top.
		A start from home had to be made about five o'clock in the morning, and by climbing hard and fast the party might reach the top in seven hours.
	www.vancouverhistory.ca /archives_KingsfordSmith.htm (745 words)

	Kingsford Smith and Ulm commemorative postage stamps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		In 1984, Australia commemorated the 50th anniversary of the first trans-Tasman airmail and the first flight from Australia to New Guinea; both flights were made by Charles Ulm and G U Allan in the Avro Ten Faith in Australia.
		Charles Ulm was killed with his crew in December 1934 on a flight from America to Hawaii.
		Charles Kingsford Smith was killed with Tommy Pethybridge in November 1935 when his plane disappeared in the Bay of Bengal on a direct flight from Allahabad in India to Singapore.
	www.nzstamps.fsnet.co.uk /air/ks/ks.html (422 words)

	David Marshall - Not a Good Start for a Record Flight. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		This record breaking flight by Charles Kingsford Smith started out sadly, as the dour painting shows and the story accompanying the reproduction amplifies.
		Smithy circles the wreckage in a farewell salute to a friend lost in the crash of the British airship, R101.
		In order to keep up public awareness for his airline interests and Australian aviation generally, Charles Kingsford Smith took every opportunity to make the headlines.
	www.davidmarshallaviationart.com /smithy.html (151 words)

	Smithy: The Life of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
		But the price of his heroism was high and the demands for celebrity and a messy private life ended in tragedy off the coast of Burma in 1935 in an attempt to fly from England to Australia.
		When Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's aircraft Lady Southern Cross mysteriously disappeared, the golden age of aviation lost one of its most charismatic heroes: the man who had piloted the first flights across the Pacific in both directions, conquered the Tasman Sea and made the first successful westbound crossing of the Atlantic.
		Written with the co-operation of 'Smithy's' widow and family, this illuminating and authoritative biography looks beyond his awesome flying exploits to reveal a complex reckless character obsessed by fame and worshipped by women - and yet, paradoxically, one who suffered from a morbid fear of the sea.
	www.bookworm.com.au /shop/scditem.asp?ProdID=19315 (230 words)

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