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Southern Cross (aircraft)
''Southern Cross'' is the name of the Fokker F.VIIb/3m trimotor monoplane which in 1928 was flown by Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew in the first ever trans-Pacific flight to Australia from the mainland United States, about .
==History==
The ''Southern Cross'' began life as the ''Detroiter'', a polar exploration aircraft of the ''Detroit News''-Wilkins Arctic expedition.〔(Carl "Ben" Eielson, NAHF ) (Pilot of the ''Detroiter'')〕 The aircraft had crashed in Alaska in 1926, and was recovered and repaired by the Australian expedition leader, Hubert Wilkins. Wilkins, who had decided the Fokker was too large for his Arctic explorations, met with Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm in San Francisco and arranged to sell them the aircraft, without engines or instruments.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ace Pilots )〕
Having fitted the aircraft out with engines and the other required parts, Kingsford Smith made two attempts at the world endurance record, in an attempt to raise funds and interest for his trans-Pacific flight. However, after the New South Wales government withdrew its sponsorship of the flight,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Century of Flight )〕 it looked as if the money would run out and Kingsford Smith would have to sell the ''Southern Cross''. The aircraft was bought by American aviator and philanthropist Allan Hancock, who then loaned it back to Kingsford Smith and Ulm.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Smithy" and the ''Southern Cross'', State Library of NSW )〕
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