EP41 : Come Fly With Us on Smithy's Southern Cross Replica Over the Illawarra

We've been really keen to show you what it's like to fly in our replica of Australia's pioneering trans-pacific aviator Charles Kingsford Smith's three engine Fokker, the Southern Cross, since its first flight in over 20 years last December. The majestic aircraft's been busy training up new pilots to keep her more up in the air and today we finally got a ride on her longest run yet out of Shellharbour Regional Airport, home of the HARS Aviation Museum, and over neighbouring Wollongong and Port Kembla. And what a nostalgic trip back into those early days of passenger aviation.
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With thanks to pilots John Daley and Mark Thurstan and crew aboard Mark Keech, Glenn Williams & David Palis and, of course, Southern Cross Project Leader Jim Thurstan.
Video: by Carl Robinson and Tim May.
Photography: Howard Mitchell

[@gaznet1107]

This flew over my house the other day. I thought is it a Ford tri motor or a Junkers 52....Oh its a Focker tri motor. Looks amazing and sounds fantastic 😊

[@glennstocker487]

Just magnificent - so elegant and majestic well done to all involved such an epic effort.👏👏👏

[@anthonyeaton5153]

Don't think I could call it elegant but Beauty is in the eye of....

[@SNAFU..]

Looks and sounds like an accident waiting to happen....

[@SuperStephenj]

its already had an accident this is the rebuilt version