
Smithy at Curtiss-Reynolds
Airfield in Glenview, Illinois (about 21 miles north-west of downtown
Chicago) on 2 July 1930 during the final stages of the round-world flight
by the Southern Cross which had crossed the Atlantic from east
to west on 24 June 1930. With Smithy on this flight (but not in the
photo) were Paddy Saul, Evert van Dijk and John Stannage. A cropped
version of this photo was later used on the front cover of a brochure
produced to commemorate the preservation of the Southern Cross
in Brisbane.
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