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.
This journey took just under ten days.Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew, including Charles Ulm as the relief pilot, left the United States on 31 May 1928 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.
The United States should reach from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.Manifest destiny was the idea that it was the nation's destiny to expand across the continent to the Pacific.
Charles Kingsford-Smith set a milestone for Australian society. He became one of Australia's best-known aviators, and completed the first non-stop crossing of the Australian mainland and the first flight from Australia to New Zealand. In 1930 he flew 16 000 kilometres single handedly and won the England to Australia air race. Kingsford Smith is perhaps best known for being the first to cross the Pacific from the United States to Australia. On 31 May 1928, he and his crew 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 he landed on 8 June 1928. On arrival, he was met by a huge crowd at Eagle Farm Airport, and was regarded as a hero.
Christoper Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492!
a man that flew across the Atlantic ocean for 33 in a half hours
farnaz In May, 1928, British Captain Charles Kingsford-Smith and his crew made the first flight across the Pacific Ocean in a Fokker F-VIIB/3M. Starting in Oakland, California
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.
Charles kingsford was the first to make a transpacific flight in 1928, starting in California and stopping in Hawaii before flying to Suva, before landing in Australia. The first nonstop flight was made by Dr. Hugo Eckener who was flying the German Airship Graf Zeppelin around the world in 1929.
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.
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Pacific Ocean
No one swam the Pacific
The Atlantic... But you have to go across Asia and Africa to get to it... If you mean what ocean is EAST of east Asia, then it's the Pacific.
Charles Kingsford-Smith ("Smithy") and Charles T. P. Ulm landed in Brisbane, Australia, having become the first pilots to fly across the Pacific.Ferdinand Magellan
Balboa was the first to see the Pacific Ocean while traveling across the Isthmus of Panama. He saw the ocean in 1513.
She didn't survive her trip across the Pacific Ocean.