Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men (110 page)
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Authors: Peter Fitzsimons
8
‘Fly for U.S. from Ireland’,
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 24 June 1930.
9
‘Weather Bars Hop’,
New York Times
, 8 June 1930.
10
Stannage, John,
Smithy
, Oxford University Press, London, 1950, p. 79.
11
‘Kingsford-Smith has Letter From Cosgrove for Hoover’,
New York Times
, 25 June 1930.
12
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. 142.
13
‘Flying Across the Atlantic’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 25 June 1930.
14
ibid.
15
Stannage, John,
High Adventure
, MacDonald, Christchurch, 1944, p. 47.
16
‘Safe Crossing of Atlantic’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 26 June 1930.
17
Mackersey, op. cit., p. 254.
18
Stannage,
Smithy
, op. cit., p. 81.
19
ibid.
20
Kingsford Smith, op. cit., p. 146.
21
Stannage,
High Adventure
, op. cit., p. 53.
22
‘My Co-Pilot was Called Death’,
Liberty Magazine
, 28 December 1935.
23
‘The Real Smithy: Stannage’s Tribute’,
Sun
, 9 December 1935.
24
‘My Co-Pilot was Called Death’,
Liberty Magazine
, 28 December 1935.
25
Stannage,
High Adventure
, op. cit., p. 50.
26
‘Safe Crossing of Atlantic’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 26 June 1930.
27
Purvis and Priest, op. cit., p. 6f.
28
Stannage,
High Adventure
, op. cit., p. 55.
29
‘Flyers at New York’,
Los Angeles Times
, 27 June 1930.
30
‘Southern Cross Reception at New York’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 28 June 1930.
31
‘High Praise in the United States’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 27 June 1930.
32
Sprigg, C. St John,
Great Flights
, Thomas Nelson & Sons, London, 1936, p. 147.
33
‘Fighting Mob Greets Atlantic Victors on New York Arrival’,
The Washington Post
, 27 June 1930.
34
‘Southern Cross Reception at New York’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 28 June 1930.
35
‘Kingsford-Smith’s Fiancée in Australia Elated: Miss Powell Says He Has Won Last Air Laurel’,
New York Times
, 26 June 1930.
36
‘Dramatic Story: Perils of the Atlantic Flight’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 27 June 1930.
37
‘Fliers Feat Rallies Seriously Ill Father’,
New York Times
, 28 June 1930.
38
‘Airmen Decline Triumphal Broadway Parade’,
New York Times
, 27 June 1930.
39
‘Phones Australia to Greet Fiancée’,
New York Times
, 28 June 1930.
40
‘Nation Hears Flyer Talk to Australia’,
New York Times
, 29 June 1930.
41
McNally, Ward,
The Man on the Twenty Dollar Note: Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith
, A & A Reed, Sydney, 1976, p. 105.
42
ibid.
43
‘Kingsford Smith Off Today for the Coast’,
New York Times
, 2 July 1930.
44
ibid.
45
‘Southern Cross Hops to Chicago’,
New York Times
, 2 July 1930.
46
Kingsford Smith, op. cit., p. 157.
47
ibid., p. 159.
48
Mackersey, op. cit., p. 258.
49
Stannage,
High Adventure
, op. cit., p. 89.
50
Kingsford Smith, op. cit., p. 159.
51
Wixted, Edward P.,
The Life and Times of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith: An Illustrated Chronology
, private source, Queensland, 1996, p. 77.
52
Stannage,
High Adventure
, op. cit., p. 90.
53
Wixted, op. cit., p. 95.
54
McNally, op. cit., p. 106.
55
Kingsford Smith, op. cit., p. 165.
56
Sheil, Beau,
Caesar of the Skies: The Life Story of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
, Cassell, London, 1937, p. 122.
57
‘The Air Race: Smith at Rangoon’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 16 October 1930.
58
Kingsford Smith, op. cit., p. 173.
59
ibid., p. 176.
60
Stannage,
Smithy
, op. cit., p. 90.
61
‘Kingsford Smith Relates Incidents of Flight’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 20 October 1930.
62
Kingsford Smith, op. cit., p. 183.
63
‘Kingsford Smith Relates Incidents of Flight’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 20 October 1930.
64
‘World Fliers Reach Darwin: Smith Breaks the Record’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 20 October 1930.
65
Purvis and Priest, op. cit., p. 12.
66
‘Broadcast Address’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 22 October 1930.
67
‘Official Welcome Mascot Aerodrome’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 23 October 1930.
68
‘Father’s Ashes Cast on Pacific by Kingsford Smith from Plane’,
New York Times
, 5 November 1930.
69
‘“Smithy” Spreads Father’s Ashes over Ocean Rollers’,
Daily Telegraph
, 5 November 1930.
70
‘Kingsford Smith: Scenes at the Wedding’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 11 December 1930.
71
Mackersey, op. cit., p. 263.
72
Mollison, Jim,
Playboy of the Air
, Michael Joseph, London, 1937, p. 23.
73
ibid., p. 58f
74
Kingsford Smith, op. cit., p. 186.
75
Mackersey, op. cit., p. 264.
76
Kingsford Smith, Charles, letter to the Secretary of the British Air Ministry, sent from Sydney, November 1930.
77
Fysh, Sir Hudson,
Qantas Rising: The Autobiography of the Flying Fysh
, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1966, p. 257.
78
Davis, Pedr,
Charles Kingsford Smith: Smithy, The World’s Greatest Aviator
, Lansdowne Press, Sydney, 1985, p. 94.
79
Slipstream
, 1 December 1930 (Vol. 2, No. 4).
80
Macfarlane, Dan, previously unpublished reminiscences, 1967, private collection of his daughter, Ashlyn Macfarlane.
81
‘Southern Cloud Laid to Rest’,
Friends
, 3 September 2006 (Vol. 17).
82
Macfarlane, op. cit.
83
Kingsford Smith,
My Flying Life
, op. cit., p. 189.
84
‘Desperate Search for the Missing Plane’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 25 March 1931.
85
Tumut and Adelong Times
, 31 October 1958.
86
‘Flashes in the Hills’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 26 March 1931.
87
‘The Southern Cloud: Kingsford Smith’s Spectacular Flight’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 26 March 1931.
88
‘Missing Plane Search Continues’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 30 March 1931.
89
‘The Southern Cloud: Hope Practically Abandoned’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 27 March 1931.
90
Scott, C.W.A.,
The Life and Mildenhall-Melbourne Flight of C.W.A. Scott
, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1934, pp. 29, 33f.
91
Swinson, Arthur,
The Great Air Race,
Cassell, London, 1968, p. 137.
Chapter Sixteen: To and Fro…
1
‘Kingsford Smith, Life of Adventure’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 7 June 1928.
2
‘Arrival at Brisbane, Kingsford Smith’s Plans’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 22 April 1931.
3
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. 198.
4
Qantas Heritage Collection, Kingsford Smith Airport, Sydney.