biography
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Kingsford Smith, Sir Charles Edward
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| male
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| lived:
| (1897–1935)
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| biography:
| Pioneer aviator, born in Hamilton, Brisbane, Queensland, NE Australia. He studied at Sydney Technical College, served in the Royal Flying Corps (1917), then became an instructor in the Royal Air Force. He joined West Australia Airways (1921), becoming chief pilot in 1924. With Charles Ulm he completed a record-breaking flight round Australia (1927), and in 1928 flew from California to Brisbane via Honolulu and Fiji. He was knighted in 1932. In November 1935 he set off with Thomas Pethybridge from Allahabad, India, on the second leg of an attempt at the England–Australia record, but the plane went missing over the Bay of Bengal. |
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