‘Smithy's”
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25 Years Since ‘Smithy's”
Wizard Fiji Landing
rE 25th anniversary of the arrival of Kingsford Smith’s three-engined Fokker aircraft Southern Cross, at Albert Park, Suva, on the famous first Trans pacific flight, was celebrated in Suva on June 5, by the broadcast ing of a special programme from ZJV, in which Mr. W. Caldwell and Mr. R. Farquhar (men who were intimately associated with the flight) took part.
Smithy’s feat in bringing the big Fokker safely to earth in tiny Albert Park, after his record-mak ing overseas flight from Honolulu to Fiji, is one of the outstanding events in the history of pioneer aviation.