"Kingsford, on Anzac Parade and Gardeners Road, there is a large roundabout connecting a public transport system to nine possible destinations via a large number of bus services. For this reason, this part of Kingsford is sometimes referred to as ""nine-ways"". Kingsford is less than 5 km from Coogee Beach. The area was once known as South Kensington. It was named Kingsford to honour Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith (1897–1935), as was the nearby Sydney Airport. Kingsford was undeveloped until a land boom in the 1920s. In the 1940s, many Greeks settled in the area, particularly migrants from the"
"suburb of Kingsford. His most famous aircraft, the ""Southern Cross"", is now preserved and displayed in a purpose-built memorial to Kingsford Smith near the International Terminal at Brisbane Airport. Kingsford Smith sold the plane to the Australian Government in 1935 for £3000 so it could be put on permanent display for the public. The plane was carefully stored for many years before the current memorial was built. Kingsford Smith Drive in Brisbane passes through the suburb of his birth, Hamilton. Another Kingsford Smith Drive, which is located in the Canberra district of Belconnen, intersects with Southern Cross Drive. Opened in"
"Kingsford Smith Drive, Brisbane Kingsford Smith Drive is a major road in Brisbane. The road was named after the aviator Charles Kingsford Smith. It connects the suburb of Pinkenba to the Brisbane central business district at the Breakfast Creek. Kingsford Smith Drive is one of the busiest roads in Brisbane, carrying an average of 61,773 vehicles per day between July and December 2014. The first road along the northern bank of the Brisbane River was constructed in 1829/1830. Convict labour was used to connect the main settlement to the women's gaol at Eagle Farm. In 1882, the road was still"
"Charles Kingsford Smith Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith, MC, AFC (9 February 1897 – 8 November 1935), often called by his nickname ""Smithy"", was an early Australian aviator. In 1928, he made the first trans-Pacific flight from the United States to Australia. He also made the first non-stop crossing of the Australian mainland, the first flights between Australia and New Zealand, and the first eastward Pacific crossing from Australia to the United States; and, also, made a flight from Australia to London, setting a new record of 10.5 days. Charles Edward Kingsford Smith was born on 9 February 1897 at"
"2009, Kingsford Smith School in the Canberra suburb of Holt was named after the famous aviator, as was Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith Elementary School in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was pictured on the Australian $20 paper note (in circulation from 1966 until 1994, when the $20 polymer note was introduced to replace it), to honour his contribution to aviation and his accomplishments during his life. He was also depicted on the Australian one-dollar coin of 1997, the centenary of his birth. Albert Park in Suva, where he landed on the trans-Pacific flight, now contains the Kingsford Smith Pavilion. A memorial"
"Ashingdon, Essex. At this stage he was still an officer in the RAF Reserve, which he relinquished in April 1926, after he had arrived in Australia, leaving a wife and three children in England. Neale arrived in Australia at Fremantle (the port for Perth) on 3 February 1925 aboard the Orient liner RMS ""Ormonde"". He had been persuaded to come to Australia by Bert Hinkler, and was contracted as a new pilot for Western Australian Airways. W.A. Airways (as it became known) had a government mail contract on the route from Geraldton to Derby via intermediate ports. Charles Kingsford Smith"
"headed for Suva, Fiji, away, taking 34 hours 30 minutes (91.45 mph). This was the most demanding portion of the journey, as they flew through a massive lightning storm near the equator. The third leg was the shortest, in 20 hours (84.15 mph), and crossed the Australian coastline near Ballina before turning north to fly to Brisbane, where they landed at 10.50 a.m. on 9 June. The total flight distance was approximately . Kingsford Smith was met by a huge crowd of 26,000 at Eagle Farm Airport, and was welcomed as a hero. Australian aviator Charles Ulm was the relief"
"from Doomben Racecourse to Eagle Farm Racecourse and renamed the race after Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith. Kingsford-Smith Cup The Kingsford-Smith Cup is a Brisbane Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred Weight for Age horse race, run over a distance of 1300 metres at Eagle Farm Racecourse, Brisbane, Australia during the Queensland Winter Racing Carnival. Total pizemoney is A$700,000. The race has been growing status and was elevated to Group 1 in 2006 and has been won by some notable sprinters such as Apache Cat and Black Caviar. The original race name was named in honour of former long time committeeman"
"official dedication of the new Oakland Airport. A month earlier, on August 16, participants in the disastrous Dole Air Race had taken off from Oakland's new runway headed for Honolulu, Hawaii away—three fliers died before getting to the starting line in Oakland; five were lost at sea, attempting to reach Honolulu; and two more died searching for the lost five. On May 31, 1928, Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew departed Oakland in ""Southern Cross"" on their successful bid to cross the Pacific by air, finishing in Australia. In October 1928, Oakland was used as a base for the World"
"hours 25 minutes and was uneventful. They then flew to Suva, Fiji 3,100 miles away, taking 34 hours 30 minutes. This was the toughest part of the journey as they flew through a massive lightning storm near the equator. They then flew on to Brisbane in 20 hours, where they landed on 9 June 1928 after approximately 7,400 miles total flight. On arrival, Kingsford Smith was met by a huge crowd of 25,000 at Eagle Farm Airport in his hometown of Brisbane. Accompanying him were Australian aviator Charles Ulm as the relief pilot, and the Americans James Warner and Captain"
"Smith Field (Arkansas) Smith Field is a city-owned, public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) northeast of the central business district of Siloam Springs, a city in Benton County, Arkansas, United States. According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, it is categorized as a ""general aviation"" airport. Smith Field covers an area of at an elevation of 1,191 feet (363 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 18/36 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,997 by 75 feet (1,523 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending July 31, 2009, the airport"
"operate on the Blue Mountains Line, Central Cost & Newcastle Line, South Coast Line, Southern Highlands Line and Hunter Line. Major roads are the concern of both federal and state governments. The latter maintains these through the Department of Roads and Maritime Services, formerly the Roads and Traffic Authority, and before that, the Department of Main Roads (DMR). The main roads in New South Wales are Other roads are usually the concern of the RMS and/or the local government authority. Kingsford Smith Airport (commonly Sydney Airport, and locally referred to as Mascot Airport or just 'Mascot'), located in the southern"
"Kingston Airfield Kingston Airfield, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, operated from 1929–1942 as Kingston's first airport. It consisted of a grass strip and supporting buildings in what is now the ""Kingscourt"" subdivision of the city, just to the west of the St. Mary's cemetery. The city of Kingston purchased what was then the Reid Farm and leased it to the Kingston Flying Club, who operated a flight school using two Gipsy Moth aircraft. The Kingston Airfield was a popular refuelling stop between Toronto and Montreal, and in 1931, 1,400 transient aircraft were recorded using the field. The airport was closed in"
"Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport is a public airport in Androscoggin County, Maine, opened in 1935. It is five miles southwest of the cities of Auburn and Lewiston, both of which own and operate the airport, though it is in the Auburn city limits. The airport is not served by any airline, though Executive Airlines, Northeast Airlines, Air New England, Northeast Express Regional Airlines, and Bar Harbor Airlines have had scheduled flights to LEW in the past. The airport was the site of a Bar Harbor accident that killed ""America's Youngest Ambassador"" Samantha Smith. The airport is also home"
"Hanford Municipal Airport Hanford Municipal Airport , formerly O18, is a public airport located one mile (1.6 km) southeast of the central business district of Hanford, a city in Kings County, California, United States. It is owned by the City of Hanford. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Hanford Municipal Airport is assigned HJO by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA. Hanford Municipal Airport covers an area of with one asphalt paved runway (14/32) measuring . For the 12-month period ending March 29, 2007, the airport had 28,500"
"to New York in September 1935 and had the ""Lady Southern Cross"" put on a ship to England. After obtaining a British airworthiness certificate, and having been turned back once by a hailstorm over Italy, Kingsford Smith and co-pilot Tommy Pethybridge left Croydon Airport in London on 6 November 1935 in an attempt to break the England to Australia speed record set during the MacRobertson Air Race. Kingsford Smith and Pethybridge were flying the ""Lady Southern Cross"" overnight from Allahabad, India, to Singapore (c.2200 mi.), while attempting to break the England-Australia speed record, when they disappeared over the Andaman Sea"
"back to Kingsford Smith and Ulm. On 31 May 1928, the crew—Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm, and Americans Harry Lyon (navigator) and James Warner (radio operator)—took off from Oakland, California, United States. The ""Southern Cross"" first stopped for rest and refuelling in Hawaii before setting off for Fiji. This leg of the journey took hours of flight across open seas before gliding past the Grand Pacific Hotel in Suva, where a large and enthusiastic crowd saw the first aircraft to land in Fiji touch down at Albert Park. The ""Southern Cross"" landed at Eagle Farm Airport in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia,"
"Lawrence Smith Memorial Airport Lawrence Smith Memorial Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) south of the central business district of Harrisonville, a city in Cass County, Missouri, United States. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a ""general aviation"" facility. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned LRY by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA. Lawrence Smith Memorial Airport covers an area of 126 acres (51 ha) at an"
"to Raleigh/Durham, NC, Greensboro, NC, Winston-Salem, NC, Cincinnati, OH and other en route destinations. Wheeler Airlines, a commuter air carrier, served the airport during the mid 1970s with Cessna 402 flights to Charlotte, NC, Norfolk, VA and Raleigh/Durham NC. Michael J. Smith Field Michael J. Smith Field is a public airport located one mile (2 km) north of the central business district of Beaufort and northeast of Morehead City, in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. It is owned by the Beaufort-Morehead City Airport Authority. The airport is named in memory of astronaut Michael J. Smith, a native of Beaufort"
"the surname Kingsford-Smith (or Kingsford Smith) and were the parents of noted Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. On 8 April 1885, daughter Caroline married William Swallow, son of Thomas Swallow in Port Melbourne, Victoria. Richard and Sarah moved to Cairns around 1883, where son-in-law William Smith was working as a bank manager. Some time after Kingsford's failure in the 1888 election in Cairns, the couple moved to Tasmania. Sarah died at Fairview House, Launceston, Tasmania on 13 September 1890. On 31 August 1892, Kingsford remarried; his second wife being Emma Jane Dexter in Launceston, Tasmania. The couple had a"
"Humberside Airport Humberside Airport is an international airport situated at Kirmington in the Borough of North Lincolnshire, England, west of Grimsby and around from both Kingston upon Hull and Scunthorpe, on the A18. Humberside Airport was owned by Manchester Airports Group (the largest UK-owned airport group) from 1999 until 1 August 2012, when it was sold to the Eastern Group of companies. North Lincolnshire Council retains a minority of shares in the Airport. The airport was previously a Royal Air Force base, RAF Kirmington, opened in 1941 during World War II, from which No. 166 Squadron RAF operated the Avro"
"rates were estimated at 67,000 vehicles a day. Traffic volumes on the road are increasing. This has led to a drop in the average speed on the road from per hour in 2008 to per hour in 2009. The Airport Link tolled tunnel project is expected to reduce traffic volumes by 12%. The entire road is in the Brisbane local government area. Kingsford Smith Drive, Brisbane Kingsford Smith Drive is a major road in Brisbane. The road was named after the aviator Charles Kingsford Smith. It connects the suburb of Pinkenba to the Brisbane central business district at the Breakfast"
"suburbs. This district was the birthplace of Charles Kingsford Smith in 1897. After World War I, a war memorial was built alongside the Brisbane River. It was unveiled by the Queensland Governor John Goodwin on Sunday 16 August 1931.During World War II an accident occurred involving a Corsair fighter plane. It had been unloaded from a ship in the river, had its wings folded up and was being towed along Kingsford Smith Drive by a truck when it snagged the tramway overhead and brought them down. The Hamilton Library opened in 1947. In recent times, a cruise ship terminal has"
"748 concrete segments, which are supported by 17 piers, were placed for the new bridge. The duplicate bridge was completed in May 2010 along with the remaining lanes of the Gateway Motorway deviation. In October 2010, then Minister for Main Roads, Craig Wallace, announced that the original course of the Gateway Motorway via Eagle Farm would be renamed to Southern Cross Way, after Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's aircraft, the ""Southern Cross"", which landed at Eagle Farm in 1928, and so as to avoid confusion with the newly opened Gateway Motorway deviation. The new Gateway Motorway deviation was given the name"
"1942 after a crash. After World War II, the Kingston Flying Club resumed operations at Norman Rogers Airport, west of the city, which had been built as a military field, and the original Kingston Airfield was redeveloped as a residential neighbourhood. Kingston Airfield Kingston Airfield, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, operated from 1929–1942 as Kingston's first airport. It consisted of a grass strip and supporting buildings in what is now the ""Kingscourt"" subdivision of the city, just to the west of the St. Mary's cemetery. The city of Kingston purchased what was then the Reid Farm and leased it to the"
"of a globe-circling flight. They flew the ""Southern Cross"" to England in June 1929, then across the Atlantic and North America, returning to Oakland where their trans-Pacific flight had begun. Before Kingsford Smith's death in 1935, he donated the ""Southern Cross"" to the Commonwealth of Australia, for display in a museum. The aircraft is preserved in a special glass 'hangar' memorial on Airport Drive, near the International Terminal at Brisbane Airport in Queensland, Australia. First aerial circumnavigation The first aerial circumnavigation of the world was conducted in 1924 by a team of aviators of the United States Army Air Service,"
"Springfield, MA and the Vermonter runs from Washington to St. Albans, Vermont via the same line. Statewide bus service is supplied by Connecticut Transit, owned by the Connecticut Department of Transportation, with smaller municipal authorities providing local service. Bus networks are an important part of the transportation system in Connecticut, especially in urban areas like Hartford, Stamford, Norwalk, Bridgeport and New Haven. Connecticut Transit also operates CTfastrak, a bus rapid transit service between New Britain and Hartford. The bus route opened to the public on March 28, 2015. Bradley International Airport, is located in Windsor Locks, north of Hartford. Many"
"Hamilton Airport (Victoria) Hamilton Airport is located north of Hamilton, Victoria, Australia. The airport is about west of Melbourne. Sharp Airlines was established at the airport and despite cancelling scheduled service in December 2014, retains a flying school at Hamilton. The airport is also home to the Hamilton Aero Club. The terminal, called the Sir RM Ansett Terminal, is named after Reginald Myles Ansett, who founded Ansett Airways at Hamilton in 1936. The Ansett Transport Museum is housed in the company's first aircraft hangar. During World War II, the airport was home to the Royal Australian Air Force Armament School"
"had 35,050 aircraft operations, an average of 96 per day: 99.9% general aviation and 0.1% military. At that time there were 42 aircraft based at this airport: 74% single-engine, 19% multi-engine, 2% jet and 5% ultralight. Smith Field (Arkansas) Smith Field is a city-owned, public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) northeast of the central business district of Siloam Springs, a city in Benton County, Arkansas, United States. According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, it is categorized as a ""general aviation"" airport. Smith Field covers an area of at an elevation of 1,191"
"well as two runways. JETGO Australia also operated from Brisbane Airport until its demise in 2018. Brisbane's first airport was Eagle Farm Airport that was built in 1925 on former agricultural land in the suburb of Eagle Farm located north-east of Brisbane or south-west of Brisbane Airport's Domestic Terminal. Although Qantas started operations there in 1926, most of the flights in Brisbane operated at the Archerfield Airport, which contained a superior landing surface. While in operation, Charles Kingsford Smith landed at Eagle Farm on 9 June 1928, after completing the first trans-pacific flight in his Fokker F.VII, the Southern Cross."
"Bakersfield Municipal Airport Bakersfield Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) south of the central business district of Bakersfield, a city in Kern County, California, United States. The airport is mostly used for general aviation. During World War II the airfield was used by the United States Army Air Forces Air Transport Command as a Sub-base of Hammer Field. Bakersfield Municipal Airport covers an area of at an elevation of 378 feet (115 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 16/34 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,000 by 75 feet (1,219"
"Southern Cross Drive, Canberra Southern Cross Drive, Canberra is a dual carriageway road in the district of Belconnen, Australian Capital Territory. It bypasses the suburbs of Page, Florey, Latham, Scullin, Higgins, Holt and Macgregor. Southern Cross Drive becomes Parkwood Road west of Macgregor. Parkwood Road is the main thoroughfare to Parkwood Landfill and Ginninderra Falls. The general speed limit is 60 km/h, with an 80 km/h limit between Kingsford Smith Drive and Coulter Drive The road is named after the aircraft flown by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. Sir Kingsford Smith also has the nearby ""Kingsford Smith Drive"" named after him."
"Southern Cross Drive, Canberra Southern Cross Drive, Canberra is a dual carriageway road in the district of Belconnen, Australian Capital Territory. It bypasses the suburbs of Page, Florey, Latham, Scullin, Higgins, Holt and Macgregor. Southern Cross Drive becomes Parkwood Road west of Macgregor. Parkwood Road is the main thoroughfare to Parkwood Landfill and Ginninderra Falls. The general speed limit is 60 km/h, with an 80 km/h limit between Kingsford Smith Drive and Coulter Drive The road is named after the aircraft flown by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. Sir Kingsford Smith also has the nearby ""Kingsford Smith Drive"" named after him."