Charles Kingsford Smith Flight
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith made the world's first west-east trans-Pacific flight in a Lockheed Altair airplane named Lady Southern Cross, arriving at Wheeler Field on October 29, 1934.
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- The Australian flying ace Charles Kingsford Smith flew with co-pilot Capt. P. G. Taylor from Suva, Fiji, to Wheeler Field, Honolulu, on October 29, 1934 in the Lady Southern Cross.
- The Australian flying ace Charles Kingsford Smith flew with co-pilot Capt. P. G. Taylor from Suva, Fiji, to Wheeler Field, Honolulu, on October 29, 1934 in the Lady Southern Cross.
- The Australian flying ace Charles Kingsford Smith flew with co-pilot Capt. P. G. Taylor from Suva, Fiji, to Wheeler Field, Honolulu, on October 29, 1934 in the Lady Southern Cross.
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- The Australian flying ace Charles Kingsford Smith flew with co-pilot Capt. P. G. Taylor from Suva, Fiji, to Wheeler Field, Honolulu, on October 29, 1934 in the Lady Southern Cross.
- Capt. P. G. Taylor and Charles Kingsford Smith with flight chart for their trans-Pacific flight from Fiji to Wheeler Field, Oahu, October 29, 1934.
- The Australian flying ace Charles Kingsford Smith flew with co-pilot Capt. P. G. Taylor from Suva, Fiji, to Wheeler Field, Honolulu, on October 29, 1934 in the Lady Southern Cross. They go over the flight chart.
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- Charles Kingsford Smith with chart of flight route from Fiji to Wheeler Field, October 29, 1934.
- Navigator P.G. Taylor and pilot Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith with their plane, Lady Southern Cross. They were in Honolulu for four days and nights while their aircraft was made ready for flight. They departed Hawaii on November 3, 1934 on the final leg of the first west-east flight across the Pacific.
- The Lady Southern Cross undergoes repairs at Wheeler Field hangar, November 2, 1934. When Army Air Corps technicians dismantled the fuel system and removed the fuselage tanks, a large crack was found in one tank.
