description: In May 1928 at Mascot airport, Sydney, 300,000 people awaited the arrival of a small but valiant aircraft, the Southern Cross. After 84 hours in the air, Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles Ulm with Americans Harry Lyon and Jim Warner, had completed the first ever crossing of the Pacific by plane.
language: English
title: A Thousand Skies
titlecomplete: A Thousand Skies
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Rainbow Publishing