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29
‘Welcome to Flyer Puts 10 in Hospital’,
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 23 May 1927.
30
Lindbergh, op. cit., p. 247.
31
‘New York–Paris Flight, Capt. Lindbergh’s Lone Voyage’,
The Times
, 23 May 1927.
32
Cross, op. cit., p. 82.
33
Ives, Stephen (director),
The American Experience—Lindbergh
, Insignia Films, USA, 1990.
34
Berg, op. cit., p. 139.
35
Elliott, Brian A.,
Blériot: Herald of an Age
, Tempus Publishing, Gloucestershire, 2000, p. 226.
36
ibid.
37
Berg, op. cit., p. 148.
38
Ives, op. cit., 1990.
39
‘Lindbergh Crowd Shatters Record’,
New York Times
, 12 June 1927.
40
Cross, op. cit., p. 90.
41
‘Atlantic Flights, Lindbergh’s Achievement’,
Argus
, 25 May 1927.
42
‘America to Australia, Lindbergh’s Next Plan’,
Argus
, 23 May 1927.
43
‘Lindbergh’s Great Flight’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 23 May 1927.
44
‘Aviation Round Australia Flight’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 20 June 1927.
45
‘No Sign of Keith Anderson: Anxiety Deepens’,
Daily Guardian
, 12 April 1929.
46
ibid.
47
Cogger, Percy, Wings and the Man—the Private Papers of Charles Ulm, Aviator, unpublished manuscript, Mitchell Library, Sydney.
48
‘Round Australia’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 30 June 1927.
49
‘Welcome Back. Sun’s Lunch to Airmen’,
Sun
(Sydney) 30 June 1927.
50
ibid.
51
‘Endurance Epic’,
Sun
, 30 June 1927. These are the words used by Kingsford Smith and Ulm to a
Sun
journalist on the same day as the luncheon, and may be assumed to be close to the account that Kingsford Smith gave to the gathering of their adventures.
Chapter Ten: The Tough Get Going
1
Stannage, John,
Smithy
, Oxford University Press, London, 1950, p. 76.
2
Kingsford Smith, Sir Charles,
My Flying Life: An Authentic Biography Prepared under the Personal Supervision of and from the Diaries and Papers of the Late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith,
Andrew Melrose, London, 1937, p. 25.
3
‘Pioneer Pacific Fliers Wrote Tragic Chapter In Air History’,
San Francisco Call-Bulletin
, 10 October 1955.
4
Joy, William,
The Aviators
, Shakespeare Head Press, Sydney, 1971, p. 68.
5
Kingsford Smith, Sir Charles,
The Old Bus
, Herald Press, Melbourne, 1932, p. 9.
6
Stannage, op. cit, p. 23.
7
ibid.
8
Wilkins, Hubert, letter to a Mr Byrne, sent from New York City, 29 October 1936.
9
Courtwright, David T.,
Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation and Empire
(Centennial of Flight Series), Texas A & M University Press, USA, 2005, p. 80.
10
Lindbergh, Charles A.,
Of Flight and Life
, Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1948, p. 118.
11
Lindbergh, Charles A.,
Charles A. Lindbergh: Autobiography of Values
, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1977, p. 118.
12
Ives, Stephen (director),
The American Experience—Lindbergh
, Insignia Films, USA, 1990.
13
Cross, James Giblin,
Charles A. Lindbergh: A Human Hero
, Clarion Books, New York, 1997, p. 176.
14
Wilkins, op. cit.
15
‘Speakeasies Then and Now’,
San Francisco Chronicle
, 16 December 2007.
16
Kingsford Smith, Sir Charles E. and Ulm, Charles T.P.,
The Great Trans-Pacific Flight: The Story of the ‘Southern Cross’
, Hutchinson, London, 1928, p. 48.
17
ibid., p. 49.
18
Sheil, Beau,
Caesar of the Skies: The Life Story of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
, Cassell, London, 1937, p. 68.
19
McNally, Ward,
The Man on the Twenty Dollar Note: Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith
, A & A Reed, Sydney, 1976, p. 60.
20
ibid.
21
Wixted, Edward P.,
The Life and Times of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith: An Illustrated Chronology
, private source, Queensland, 1996, p. 48.
22
‘Our Conquest of the Pacific’,
National Geographic
, October 1928.
23
Kingsford Smith,
My Flying Life
, op. cit., p. 132.
24
Stannage, op. cit., p. 26.
25
ibid., p. 8.
26
‘Californians Face Failure, Fuel Low, but Keep on Flying’,
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 19 January 1928.
27
McNally, Ward,
Smithy: The Kingsford-Smith Story
, Robert Hale, London, 1966, p. 51f.
28
Kingsford Smith,
The Old Bus
, op. cit., p. 15.
29
‘Vain Vigil at Trentham’,
The Evening Post
, 11 January 1928.
30
‘Flyers Try Again for New Record’,
Los Angeles Times
, 18 January 1928.
31
Kingsford Smith,
The Old Bus
, op. cit., p. 17.
32
Kingsford Smith,
My Flying Life
, op. cit., p. 36.
33
ibid., p. 37.
34
‘The Trans-Pacific Flight, Being the Saga of the Southern Cross’,
Liberty Magazine
, 19 April 1930.
35
Mackenzie, Roy D.,
Solo: The Bert Hinkler Story
, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1979, p. 64.
36
Lex, Rowland via Hinkler House Memorial Museum Bundaberg, quoting an interview Hinkler gave to a Bundaberg newspaper at the conclusion of his flight.
37
Mackenzie, op. cit., p. 79.
38
ibid., p. 78.
39
ibid., p. 83.
40
ibid., p. 94.
41
‘Conquerors of the Pacific’,
Sydney Mail
, 13 June 1928.
42
Mackenzie, op. cit., p. 78.
43
Kingsford Smith,
The Old Bus
, op. cit., p. 20.
44
Clover, Sam T.,
A Pioneer Heritage
, Saturday Night Publishing Co., Los Angeles, 1932, p. 101.
45
ibid., p. 102.
46
Stannage, op. cit., p. 31f.
47
The actual figure is difficult to determine. Kingsford Smith’s account in
The Old Bus
(op. cit., p. 21) and
My Flying Life
(op. cit., p. 40) places the figure at £3200.00. In his biography of Kingsford Smith,
Smithy
(op. cit., p. 32), John Stannage has the figure at $20,000. It is, however, in memoirs that Ulm puts it at $16,000, and in terms of their subsequent expenditure, that seems to fit best.
48
Kingsford Smith,
The Old Bus
, op. cit., p. 21.
49
‘Harry Lyon and The Southern Cross’,
American Aviation Historical Society Journal
, Winter 1979 (Vol. 24, Issue 4).
50
ibid.
51
‘The Trans-Pacific Flight, Being the Saga of the Southern Cross’,
Liberty Magazine
, 19 April 1930.
52
‘Jim Warner Radioman’,
American Aviation Historical Society Journal
, Summer 1983 (Vol. 28, Issue 2).
53
Swinton, Stuart,
P.G. Taylor: The Last of the Great Air Pioneers—A Personal Tribute From Stuart Swinton
, Australian Military History Publications, Loftus, New South Wales, 2006, p. 16.
54
‘Harry Lyon and The Southern Cross’,
American Aviation Historical Society Journal
, Winter 1979 (Vol. 24, Issue 4).
55
Sprigg, C. St John,
Great Flights
, Thomas Nelson & Sons, London, 1936, p. 140.
56
Davis, Pedr,
Charles Kingsford Smith: Smithy, The World’s Greatest Aviator
, Lansdowne Press, Sydney, 1985, p. 50.
57
McNally,
The Man on the Twenty Dollar Note
, op. cit., p. 72.
58
‘Harry Lyon and The Southern Cross’,
American Aviation Historical Society Journal
, Winter 1979 (Vol. 24, Issue 4).
59
‘Plane Ready For Longest Ocean Hop’,
San Francisco Chronicle
, 31 May 1928.
60
Kingsford Smith, C.E. and Ulm, C.T.P.,
Story of ‘Southern Cross’ Trans-Pacific Flight 1928,
Penlington & Somerville, Sydney 1928, p. 227.
61
Sealby, Winifred Kingsford,
Recollections: Personal and Scenic; Our Dumb Friends
, (Australian Library Collections, Record ID 5583222), 1951, p. 10.