CAC Plant Reports 1940, numbers 61 – 73

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1935 Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and John Thompson "Tommy" Pethybridge took off from Croydon airport in London at 5:00pm on 5 November 1935 in the Lockheed Altair 'Lady Southern Cross', aiming to break the England to Australia record which was held at the time by C.W.A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black from their win in the MacRobertson Interational Air Races in October 1934. Newspaper reports indicate that he then stopped at Lympne airport in Kent, departing at 6:28am on the following morning (6 November 1935). Sources: The Evening News (Rockhampton) 6/11/1935; Examiner (Launceston) 7/11/1935; Australian Dictionary of Biography and Wikipedia