charles kingsford-smith
DESCRIPTION
Photobiography of Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith's lifeTRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Charles Kingsford-Smith](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062708/558b8b7cd8b42a787a8b4584/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Charles Kingsford-Smith
Photobiography
![Page 2: Charles Kingsford-Smith](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062708/558b8b7cd8b42a787a8b4584/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
![Page 3: Charles Kingsford-Smith](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062708/558b8b7cd8b42a787a8b4584/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Born in Hamilton, Queensland, 1897
![Page 4: Charles Kingsford-Smith](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062708/558b8b7cd8b42a787a8b4584/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Served in World War 1 and shot down two planes
![Page 5: Charles Kingsford-Smith](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062708/558b8b7cd8b42a787a8b4584/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Was awarded a Military Cross
![Page 6: Charles Kingsford-Smith](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062708/558b8b7cd8b42a787a8b4584/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Purchased a De Havilland DH6 plane and offered joy rides and performed hazardous movie stunts
![Page 7: Charles Kingsford-Smith](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062708/558b8b7cd8b42a787a8b4584/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
![Page 8: Charles Kingsford-Smith](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062708/558b8b7cd8b42a787a8b4584/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Was hired by QANTAS as one of their five pilots to operate an airmail service
![Page 9: Charles Kingsford-Smith](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062708/558b8b7cd8b42a787a8b4584/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
His dream flight across the Pacific Ocean came true on May 31st 1928
![Page 10: Charles Kingsford-Smith](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062708/558b8b7cd8b42a787a8b4584/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Jim Warner (navigator), Charles Ulm (co-pilot), Charles Kingsford-Smith (pilot) and Harry H. Lyon (navigator)
![Page 11: Charles Kingsford-Smith](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062708/558b8b7cd8b42a787a8b4584/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Oakland, California
Brisbane, Queensland
Start
Finish
Completed in 83 flying hours
![Page 12: Charles Kingsford-Smith](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062708/558b8b7cd8b42a787a8b4584/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Welcome home party in Sydney, Australia
![Page 13: Charles Kingsford-Smith](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062708/558b8b7cd8b42a787a8b4584/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Charles Kingsford-Smith made sixteen more historic fights in the following seventeen years
![Page 14: Charles Kingsford-Smith](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062708/558b8b7cd8b42a787a8b4584/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
On the 8th of November 1935 Charles along with co-pilot Tommy Pethybridge took off from Allahabad for Singapore.
They were never seen again.