April 17, 2024
ORIGINAL PHOTO SOUTHERN CROSS,FIRST PLANE TO LAND IN FIJI 1928 FOKKER Vllb/3m
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LOVELY ORIGINAL PHOTO TAKEN BY A CREW MEMBER H.M.S VERONICA. SIZE 2.5X4.5 INCHES. On 31 May 1928, the crew—Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm, and Americans Harry Lyon (navigator and James Warner (radio operator—took off from Oakland, California United States. The Southern Cross first stopped for rest and refueling in Hawaii before setting off for Fiji. This leg of the journey took 34 and a half hours of flight across open seas before gliding past the Grand Pacific Hotel in Suva, where a large and enthusiastic crowd saw the first aircraft to land in Fiji touch down at Albert Park.The Southern Cross landed at Eagle Farm Airport in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, on 9 June,where a crowd of 25,000 people were waiting to greet the Southern Cross on its arrival at the airport. The Southern Cross flew on to Sydney the following day (10 June).
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