William Olive () writes:

On this day, Saturday 9th of June 1928, Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm and Americans Harry Lyon and Jim Warner, landed their trimotor Fokker aircraft, the Southern Cross at Eagle Farm, Brisbane, completing the historic crossing in 83 hours, 38 minutes, of flying time.

Arguably the greatest of all the intercontinental flights of the post WW I era, Smithy and his plane and crew battled to cross two storm infested inter-tropic zones in one night's flying in an aircraft that cruised little faster (and had little more crew protection) than my trike.

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