Smith, Sir Keith Macpherson; and Smith, Sir Ross Macpherson

Smith, Sir Keith Macpherson; and Smith, Sir Ross Macpherson

▪ Australian pilots
Respectively,
 
born Dec. 20, 1890, Adelaide, S.Aus.
died Dec. 19, 1955, Sydney, N.S.W.
born Dec. 4, 1892, Adelaide, S.Aus.
died April 13, 1922, Brooklands, near Walton and Weybridge, Surrey, Eng.

      brothers, Australian aviators who made the first flight (aviation) from England to Australia.

      During World War I, Keith Smith flew as a pilot in the Royal Air Force (1917–19), while Ross started with the Australian Light Horse in Gallipoli and Sinai until he learned to fly in Egypt in 1916. He spent the last two years of the war in the Australian Flying Corps in Palestine. Ross made the first flight from Cairo to Calcutta, in 1918.

      On their record flight to Australia, the brothers took off from England on Nov. 12, 1919, in a Vickers Vimy twin-engine biplane accompanied by two sergeants, J.M. Bennett and W.H. Shiers, as mechanics. They landed at Darwin, Northern Territory, on December 10. Afterward, the brothers were knighted and received a £10,000 prize.

      In 1922 they began preparations for a pioneer round-the-world flight in a Vickers pusher-amphibian aircraft, but Ross was killed, together with Bennett, while testing the aircraft at Brooklands, and Keith abandoned the project. Later, he went into business in Sydney.

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