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Aviator

Occupation - Aviator
Broadsmith, Harry
Butler, Arthur
Chichester, Francis
De Pinedo, Francesco
Fysh, Wilmot Hudson
Hammond, Joseph
Hart, William (Billy)
Hinkler, Bert
Love, Nigel
Smith, Charles Kingsford
Smith, Keith Macpherson
Smith, Ross Macpherson
Taylor, Florence
Taylor, P Gordon
Ulm, Charles
Walton, Nancy Bird
Warneford, Jack
Position - Aviator of Lady Southern Cross
Smith, Charles Kingsford
1934
Position - Aviator of Miss Southern Cross, G-ACJV
Smith, Charles Kingsford
1933
Position - Aviator of Southern Cross aircraft
Smith, Charles Kingsford
1928
Ulm, Charles
1928

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Aviator

Broadsmith, Harry

Aviation engineer who helped establish Mascot as an aviation centre in Australia before returning to Britain in the late 1920s.

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Butler, Arthur

Engineer, aviator and businessman, who built an early commercial airline in New South Wales.

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Chichester, Francis

Aviator and sailor who was the first man to sail single-handed around the world from West to East via the great capes in 1966-67.

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De Pinedo, Francesco

Italian aviator who flew a sea-plane from Rome to Australia in 1925.

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Fysh, Wilmot Hudson

Airline director who, with others, founded Qantas after realising the potential of air travel during World War I.

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Hammond, Joseph

New Zealand aviator who was amongst the first to use a paddock at Mascot as an airfield.

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Hart, William (Billy)

The first airman to qualify as a pilot in Australia in 1911, who made several historic flights before he was injured in an accident. He later resumed his career as a dentist.

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Hinkler, Bert

Aviator who flew in Europe during World War I and was a pioneer in aviation in the 1920s making the first solo flight to Australia in 1928. He was killed on his second attempt in 1933 crossing the Appenines in Italy.

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Love, Nigel

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Aviator and flour miller who after serving as a pilot in World War I, developed an airfield at Mascot and promoted aviation through joy flights and charter operations.

Smith, Charles Kingsford

Aviator who served in World War I and became a pioneer of the aviation industry and air transport in Australia before disappearing on a record breaking flight from England.

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Smith, Keith Macpherson

Aviator who was one of the first people to fly from England to Australia.

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Smith, Ross Macpherson

Aviator who with his brother, Keith Macpherson Smith, became the first pilots to fly from England to Australia in 1919.

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Taylor, Florence

Architect and publisher who campaigned for urban planning, improved construction methods and better materials.

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Taylor, P Gordon

Aviator and writer who flew with Kingsford Smith and published 8 books about flying.

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Ulm, Charles

Visionary and entrepreneurial aviator who arranged the finances and administration of his flights with Kingsford Smith and undertook many hazardous journeys attempting to establish commercial flights across the Pacific before disappearing on a flight to Hawaii.

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Walton, Nancy Bird

Pioneering aviator.

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Warneford, Jack

Airman in World War I who helped establish Mascot as a centre of aviation.

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Lady Southern Cross

Lockheed Altair monoplane built for Charles Kingsford Smith in 1934 and in which he made the first eastward trans-Pacific flight from Australia to the United States.

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Miss Southern Cross, G-ACJV

Percival Gull monoplane flown by Charles Kingsford-Smith from London, England to Wyndham, Western Australia, in record breaking solo flight in 1933. The aircraft crashed in Yerranderie in 1934, killing the passenger Leslie Hinks, who was returning to Sydney from Kalgoorlie for his son's funeral.

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Southern Cross aircraft

Fokker FV11b/3M trimotor monoplane flown by Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm, Harry Lyon & James Warner in the first trans-Pacific flight, from the United States of America to Australia, in 1928. It is now on display in Brisbane Airport.

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