FAMOUS AEROPLANE
the SOUTHERN cross.
“When I get her to Sydney I will have her assembled, and I will be the. first to fly her,” said Air-Commodore Kingsford Smith, after he had examined the Southern Cross, which lay'dismantled on the Yarra Wharf at Melbourne recently. “No one wiff tickle those controls but me, he added. * The famous aeroplane was brought from America by the steamer Golden Bear. It was to be hoisted on to the vessel again and taken to Sydney, took 29 days to bring the machine from San Francisco. Once she did the trip m 88 hours 26 minutes.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 March 1931, Page 11
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