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Crowds line a Brisbane street to see Charles Kingsford Smith, 1928

In 1928 Australian pilots Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm, along with two US crewmen, became the first people to cross the Pacific Ocean by air in their three-engine Fokker aircraft, the Southern Cross.

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John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland 135100

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