Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men (119 page)

Reid, Mark 439

Reims International Air Meet 43

Reinhard,
Oberleutnant
Wilhelm 135

Rendle, Val 145, 158

Richmond air base 367, 372, 427, 515

Rickards, Harry 46, 48

Rio Rita
(musical) 356

Risticz, Johann 293

Robertson, Sir Macpherson 506, 508, 509, 511, 523

Robinson, J.W. 349

Roe, Alliot Verdon 44, 155

Rogers, Arthur 276

Rogers, Will 256, 541

Rome 456

Rome, Katherine 594

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano 435

Rosenthal, Major Charles 32

Ross, Lieutenant J.S. 163

rotary engines 4, 22, 43

Roughley, T.C. 357

round-Australia journey 258–9, 355

Royal Aero Club 409, 484, 517

Royal Aeronautical Society 288

Royal Air Force 130, 136, 515, 522
see also
Royal Flying Corps

Royal Air Force Club 443

Royal Australian Air Force 567

Royal Australian Navy 62

Royal Flying Corps 53–5, 91–3, 105, 128, 192, 194, 217, 220, 309, 353, 406, 504

good luck charms 108

merger with Royal Naval Air Service 136

motto 54

Royal Naval Hospital 141

Russell, H.A. 269

Russia 60, 65

Russian Revolution 113

Ryan monoplane 247, 274, 278, 279, 286, 294

St Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney 50

St Andrew’s Cathedral School 51–2, 248, 476

‘St Elmo’s Fire’ 362

Salisbury Plain 53

San Francisco 275–7, 284, 295, 317, 544, 571, 573

San Francisco Chronicle
293

Santos-Dumont, Alberto 20–1, 26, 590

Sarajevo 59

Saul, Paddy 444, 446, 447, 452, 453, 454

Saulnier, Raymond 30, 71

Savage, Michael 570

Schroeck, Rudolf

Das Doppelleben des Charles A. Lindbergh
609

Scott, Charles William Anderson (C.W.A.) 469, 475, 489, 501, 508, 522, 527, 528, 529, 546, 574, 577, 579, 581, 601

Scrimgeour, Reverend Colin 567

Scullin, James 338, 470

Selfridge, Lieutenant Thomas 25

Serbia 60

Seven Mile Beach 490–1

Shackleton, Sir Ernest 40

Sheil, Beau 492, 545, 567, 569, 570, 572, 574, 576, 577

Shell Oil Company 145, 597

Shepherd, Paddy 437

Shiers, Wally 166, 595

Shortridge, Christopher 598

Shortridge, Travis 437, 465, 466, 598

Shortridge, Yvonne 598

Siam 582

Sigist, Fred 160

Signal Corps 69

Sikorsky S-35 246

Singapore 457, 475, 579, 581

Sir Ernest Shackleton
Quest
Antarctic Expedition 230

Skate
, USS 605

Skilling, J. Leon 540

Skywaymen, The
181

Smith, Catherine (mother) (née Kingsford)
see
Kingsford Smith, Catherine

Smith, Dick 586, 596

Smith, Herbert 95

Smith, Joynton 412

Smith, Sir Keith 162, 164–7, 170–1, 200, 288, 298, 458, 499, 595, 609

Smith, Sir Ross 137–8, 156, 162, 164–7, 170–1, 200, 298, 352, 458, 583, 595, 609

Smith, William (father)
see
Kingsford Smith, William

Smith’s Weekly
148, 411, 428, 520

Sociéte Pour l’Aviation et se Dérivées 106

Sonoma
, SS 357, 439

Sonter, Tom 597–8

Sopwith Aviation Company 54, 79, 94

Sopwith, Phyllis 593

Sopwith planes 94–5, 147

Camel 95, 124, 130, 131, 298

Wallaby 162

Sopwith, Tom 54–5, 95, 150, 160, 593

South China Morning Post
610

Southern Cloud
437, 462, 465–9, 470, 471, 473, 598

Southern Cross
287–90, 295–7, 302, 303, 306, 309, 310–12, 313, 315–53, 357, 361–4, 366, 367, 371, 372, 373–81, 383, 384, 387, 388, 396, 400, 408, 411, 417, 422, 427, 428, 430, 444–9, 471, 487, 489, 490–1, 494, 496, 505, 518, 525, 547–63, 566–9, 573, 576, 589, 590

Southern Cross constellation 273, 331

Southern Cross Junior
454–8

Southern Cross Minor
475, 480

Southern Moon
437, 460, 494, 548

Southern Sky
437

Southern Star
437, 482, 485

Southern Sun
437, 467, 481

SPAD planes 106, 110

Spandau machine guns 109, 124

Spin III
55

Spirit of St Louis
251, 253–61, 264, 282, 609

Stainforth, RAF Flight Lieutenant G.H. 479

Stannage, Beris (née Kingsford Smith) (niece) 164, 432, 461, 491, 548, 563, 604

Stannage, John 291, 400, 443–9, 452, 453, 454, 491, 493, 496, 511, 538, 541, 542, 543, 548, 549–63, 567, 573, 576, 604

Stanwell Park 2, 9, 12

Statendam
439

Stefansson, Vilhajalmur 64

Stella Australis
539–42

Stewart, Nellie 58, 70–1, 82, 108, 268, 315, 445, 472, 525

Stewart, Sir Frederick 438, 474

Stinson Detroiter SB-1 244

Stockton Beach 551, 556

Stoke, Claire 465

Stonehaven, Lord 354

Stonehenge 53

Strathaird
495

Stubbs, Violet 194

Stumpf, George 252

stunt flying 176

Suez 76

Sufrin, Mark

The Brave Men
592

Sullenberger III, Chesley B. ‘Sully’ 610

Sun
216–17, 232, 266, 267, 269, 271, 356, 372, 384, 385, 391, 403–4, 409, 410–12, 418

Sunday Express
301

Sussex
, HMS 553

Swaine, James 3–4

Swallow, Rupert 23, 62

Sweeney, Nurse (Sadie) 23–4

Switzerland 65

Sydney 7, 15, 32, 216, 582

Rosehill racetrack 48, 599

Technological Museum 356

Sydney Harbour Bridge 311–12, 474, 487

Sydney Morning Herald
50, 61, 200, 242, 265, 266, 267, 357, 359, 391, 398, 401, 419, 461, 468, 586

Sydney Stock Exchange 401

Sydney Technical High School 21, 52–3

Sylvester Method of resuscitation 24

Tahiti
, RMS 183, 184, 269, 272, 275, 284, 297, 422, 597

Tanami Desert 406, 408, 439, 475, 596

Taplin, Len 195, 198, 229

Tasmania 461, 462

Tate, Major Thomas 596

Taube fighters 66, 94

Taylor, Charlie 14

Taylor, George Augustine 31–2, 42, 46, 48, 49, 269, 599

Taylor, Patrick Gordon ‘Bill’ 309, 353, 437, 441, 442, 491, 493, 503, 509, 512, 513, 514, 515, 519, 524–7, 532, 534–7, 538, 544, 545, 548, 549–64, 567, 599, 609

Telegraaf
531

Temple, Shirley 541

Templeton, Mr 178

Thompson, Captain 151

Thompson, John 179

Threlfall, Professor 357

Times Atlas
299, 483, 519

Times
,
The
140, 150–1, 564, 601

Timor 458, 470

Tocchioni, Gino 494–5

Todd, Bill 272, 274, 284, 286, 290–1, 359, 422–4, 426

trans-Atlantic crossings 147–52, 443–50, 483–4

trans-Australia record 357

trans-Pacific crossing, commemorative 588

Trans-Tasman Air Service

Development Company Ltd 545, 566, 577

trans-Tasman flights 359–64, 490–1, 592

Jubilee Flight 547–64

Treaty of Versailles 145–6, 183

triplanes 10

Trotsky, Leon 63

Trousdale, Terence 57

Tully, Alan 587

Tully, Belinda 587

Tumbarumba 597

Turkey 65, 479

Turner, Roscoe 523, 531

Uhlan Regiment No. 1 66

Uiver
523, 528, 529–31, 594

Ulm, Charles 119, 217–18, 248–50, 258–9, 266, 266–9, 270, 271, 275, 275, 278–9, 282, 288, 289, 290, 292, 301, 302–10, 313–14, 315–54, 355–67, 369, 370, 371, 373–82, 388, 389, 390, 392, 393, 394, 397, 398, 401, 403, 404, 405, 408–9, 410–11, 417, 417, 419, 421, 422, 423–4, 426, 427, 428, 431, 435, 437, 438, 439, 441–2, 451, 460, 461, 466, 467, 471, 474, 480, 494, 496, 497, 498, 503, 504, 505, 519, 525, 527, 535, 539–44, 548, 589, 592, 609

Old Bus
494

Ulm, Isabel 258

Ulm, John 543, 566–7, 589, 597

Ulm, Josephine 258, 272, 292, 354, 401, 542–3

Union Oil Company of California 302

Union Steamship Company 359

United Press Association 538

United States National Aeronautic Association 537

US Army Signal Corps 25

Vacuum Oil Company 232, 266, 271, 276, 285, 492, 502, 545

Valier, Max 251, 601–2

van Dijk, Evert 443–4, 446, 447, 452, 453, 454

Vancouver 17, 18, 28, 29–30, 431, 566

Vickers Aircraft 200, 595

Vickers Type 54 Viking IV 200

Vickery, Arthur 439

Voisin brothers 20, 46

Voisin plane 45–6

von Hindenburg, Paul 606

von Hünefeld, Günther 431

von Richthofen, Bolko 606

von Richthofen, Lothar 104, 606

von Richthofen, Manfred 66–7, 96–7, 104, 109, 124–5, 127–8, 130–5, 583, 605–6

Wackett, RAAF Squadron Leader Lawrence 287–8, 509, 526, 565

Waggener, Richard S. 276

Walker, Jimmy 451

Wall Street crash 1929 434–5

Walton, Nancy-Bird 498, 604, 609

Wanganella
, MV 493

Warner, Jim 307–8, 313–14, 317, 320, 322, 324, 325, 327, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, 336, 340, 341, 346, 347, 348, 350, 356, 357, 359, 493, 525, 590

Washington Post
536

Watson, Vice-Mayor 351

Waugh, Alf 531

Wave Hill station 407, 408, 410, 415

Webster, Postmaster-General William 218

Weiss, Ehrich
see
Houdini, Harry

Wellington 360, 363, 366

Wells, H.G. 37

West Australian
495

Western Australian Airways Ltd (WAA) 194–6, 197, 201–6, 214–16, 221, 222, 228, 249, 258, 359, 377, 385, 438, 441, 472, 497, 604

Western Mail
206

Western Queensland Auto Aero Service Ltd 179

Westland Widgeon III 370

Westley
579

Whitehead, J. Gordon 599–600

Whitney, Dick 434–5