Smithy (1946 film)

Smithy is a 1946 Australian film about pioneering Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and his flight across the Pacific Ocean, from San Francisco, California, United States to Brisbane, Queensland, Australia during 1928. This was the firstever transPacific flight. Kingsford Smith was the pilot of the Fokker F.VII3m threeengine monoplane Southern Cross, with Australian aviator Charles Ulm as the relief pilot. The other two crew members were Americans James Warner and Harry Lyon.

In World Warsome American and Australian airmen tell the story of Charles KingsfordSmith. It starts in 1917 with him recovering from a wound incurred in fighting over the Western Front. KingsfordSmith is rewarded with the Military Cross and is determined to make a career out of flying.After the war he visits America and has a brief romance with Kay Sutton but later falls in love with and marries Mary Powell. He attempts to enter the England to Australia Air Race in 1919 but is stopped by Prime Minister Billy Hughes. He then decides to become the first person to fly from the US to Australia across the Pacific. He does the trip with Charles Ulm in a plane called the Southern Cross and becomes world famous. ........

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