For its day, it was a feat as memorable as the moon landing. Keith and Ross Smith flew across the world in 1919, and their plane is going to a new home, writes Lainie Anderson. Those same South Aussie ...
The famous aircraft South Australian brothers Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith flew from England to Australia a century ago will be housed in this new home at Adelaide Airport. It is 100 years since South ...
The plane used in an iconic flight between England and Australia in 1919 is en route to its new home in Adelaide – and the $6m job to move it there has started. Work on the $6m project to move, ...
__1919: __John Alcock and Arthur Brown land their Vickers Vimy airplane in a bog in Clifden, Ireland, marking the end of the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic. It's a good bet to win a drink at ...
ADELAIDE’S aviation museum wants a historic World War I bomber moved from the airport to it, to boost visitor numbers. But first it’ll need a $2m expansion. The century-old plane has been on display ...
When SA astronaut Andy Thomas was blasted into orbit on board the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1996 he carried a collection of Australian artefacts with him — including the pilot wings of two South ...
It’s falling down, there’s squatter damage and a sink hole is starting in the yard. But there may be two iconic reasons to leave this Gilberton home standing. Former Adelaide City Council deputy lord ...
In a corner of Hurn Airport, near Britain’s south coast, stand six black-painted hangars belonging to Vickers Ltd. Inside are planes abuilding that pose the biggest threat to U.S. domination of the ...