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Born. To Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith, Australian transatlantic & transpacific aviator; and Mary Powell Kingsford-Smith; a son; in Sydney, Australia...
From the trans-Atlantic flight of Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith in a Fokker plane, Fokker Aircraft Corp. got certain publicity. Last week the company found the publicity had cost $16,454, scarcely a bargain...
...Canberra, Australia, where he was giving joy-hops at $3, Wing-Commander Charles E. Kingsford-Smith learned that he had been knighted by George V. Currently earning his Jiving as a barnstormer, Sir Charles is believed to be in line for the post of Controller of Civil Aviatioa of Australia...
...Charles Kingsford-Smith and his crew of three on the Southern Cross (Oakland-Australia) ; over division of proceeds of the flight...
Asked who is the best British flyer the average U. S. newsreader would probably name Wing Commander Charles Kingsford-Smith. That notion was clubbed into the public mind by headlines far bigger and more numerous than any British airman has since received. It was deepened last year by publication in Liberty of a collection of testimonials by other famed airmen to Kingsford-Smith's prowess. Fortnight ago the foremost British aeronautical editor gave his definition of the foremost British flyer: Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler?like Kingsford-Smith, an Australian. The editor: iconoclastic Charles Grey Grey of The Aeroplane...