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The Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and Indian ocean are the three oceans which are crossed by the equator.
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The line of longitude that Magellan's fleet crossed into the Pacific Ocean was the equator. The other line of longitude crossed was the Tropic of Capricorn.
Charles Kingsford Smith was the first to cross the Pacific from the United States to Australia. He achieved this feat in the Southern Cross, a Fokker FVII-3M monoplane.
On Charles Kingsford Smith's famous first crossing of the Pacific from the United States to Australia, fellow Australian aviator Charles Ulm was the relief pilot. The other two crew members were Americans James Warner and Captain Harry Lyon, who tooks the roles of radio operator, navigator and engineer for the trans-Pacific flight.
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's most famous plane is probably the Southern Cross, a Fokker FVII-3M monoplane, in which he made the first crossing of the Pacific from the United States to Australia. The Southern Cross, is now preserved and displayed in a memorial at the International Terminal at Brisbane Airport.
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith was significant to Australian history because of his major contribution to aviation. He is perhaps best remembered for being the first aviator to cross the Pacific Ocean from the United States to Australia, doing so in 1928.
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith is perhaps best remembered for being the first aviator to cross the Pacific Ocean from the United States to Australia, doing so in 1928. He is probably remembered for the fact that he disappeared virtually without a trace in 1935 in the Bay of Bengal.
On 31 May 1928, Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew, including Charles Ulm as the relief pilot, left the United States to make the first Trans-Pacific flight to Australia in the Southern Cross, a Fokker FVII-3M monoplane. The flight was in three stages, from Oakland, California to Hawaii, then to Suva, Fiji, and on to Brisbane, where they landed at Eagle Farm Airport on 9 June 1928.
She went to a flying school run by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, the first man to cross the Pacific and the Australian Mainland.
On 31 May 1928, Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew, including Charles Ulm as the relief pilot, left the United States to make the first Trans-Pacific flight to Australia in the Southern Cross, a Fokker FVII-3M monoplane. The flight was in three stages, from Oakland, California to Hawaii, then to Suva, Fiji, and on to Brisbane, where they landed at Eagle Farm Airport on 9 June 1928.