50-489: Melrose Park may refer to: Places [ edit ] Australia [ edit ] Melrose Park, New South Wales Melrose Park, South Australia United States [ edit ] Melrose Park (Fort Lauderdale) , Florida Melrose Park, Illinois Melrose Park, Lexington , Kentucky Melrose Park, New York Melrose Park, Pennsylvania Transportation [ edit ] Melrose Park station (Illinois) ,
100-463: A Metra train station in Melrose Park, Illinois Melrose Park station (SEPTA) , a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania See also [ edit ] Melrose (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Melrose Park . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
150-528: A film biography of Kingsford Smith, called An Airman Remembers , and recordings of Kingsford Smith and Ulm talking about the journey. A stamp sheet and stamps, featuring the Australian aviators Kingsford Smith and Ulm, were released by Australia Post in 1978, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the flight. A young New Zealander named Jean Batten attended a dinner in Australia featuring Kingsford Smith after
200-535: A joy-riding service mainly in the North of England, during the summer of 1919, initially using surplus DH.6 trainers, then surplus B.E.2s . Later Kingsford Smith worked as a barnstormer in the United States before returning to Australia in 1921. Applying for a commercial pilot's licence on 2 June 1921, he gave his name as "Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith". The Cowra Free Press told how Kingsford Smith flew under
250-661: A suburb of Sydney , New South Wales , Australia , located 12 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district . Melrose Park is split between the local government areas of the City of Ryde and the City of Parramatta . It is part of the Northern Sydney region. Melrose Park sits on the northern bank of the Parramatta River . The Melrose Park Residents Action Group (MPRAG) and Waterfront Action (WAG) NSW Inc groups represents
300-532: Is named in honour of aviator Charles James Melrose (1913–1936). He held a number of flying records, was the only solo flyer to finish the Melbourne Centenary Air Race in 1934 and helped in the unsuccessful search for Sir Charles Kingsford Smith . He died when his plane broke up in turbulence on a charter flight from Darwin to Melbourne . Streets in the suburb also recall other aviators such as Sir Alan Cobham , Jean Batten and Amy Johnson . In
350-696: Is now on public display at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia. In 2009, filmmaker and explorer Damien Lay stated he was certain he had found the Lady Southern Cross . The location of the claimed find was widely misreported as "in the Bay of Bengal". However, the 2009 search, was in fact, at the same location where the landing gear had been found in 1937, at Aye Island in the Andaman Sea . Kingsford Smith
400-553: The 1st AIF (Australian Army) and served at Gallipoli . Initially, he performed duty as a motorcycle dispatch rider, before transferring to the Royal Flying Corps , earning his pilot's wings in 1917. In August 1917, while serving with No. 23 Squadron , Kingsford Smith was shot down and received injuries which required amputation of two toes. He was awarded the Military Cross for his gallantry in battle. As his recovery
450-692: The Andaman Sea while attempting to break the Australia–England speed record. He was fêted as a national hero during the Great Depression and received numerous honours during his lifetime. After his death Sydney's primary airport was named in his memory and he was featured on the Australian twenty-dollar note for several decades. Charles Edward Kingsford Smith was born on 9 February 1897 at Riverview Terrace, Hamilton in Brisbane , Colony of Queensland ,
500-618: The Fokker aircraft company in the Netherlands where it had been overhauled, in June 1930 he achieved an east–west crossing of the Atlantic from Ireland to Newfoundland in 31 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours, having taken off from Portmarnock Beach (The Velvet Strand), just north of Dublin. New York gave him a tumultuous welcome. The Southern Cross continued on to Oakland, California, completing a circumnavigation of
550-693: The Governor-General of Australia , for services to aviation and later was appointed honorary Air Commodore of the Royal Australian Air Force . In 1986, Kingsford Smith was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum . The major airport of Sydney, located in the suburb of Mascot , was named Kingsford Smith International Airport in his honour. The federal electorate surrounding
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#1732852348481600-562: The Gulf of Martaban , 3 km (2 mi) off the southeast coastline of Burma, some 137 km (85 mi) south of Mottama (formerly known as Martaban). Lockheed confirmed the undercarriage leg to be from the Lady Southern Cross . Botanists who examined the weeds clinging to the undercarriage leg estimated that the aircraft lies not far from the island at a depth of approximately 15 fathoms (90 ft; 27 m). The undercarriage leg
650-510: The Lachlan road bridge at Cowra, New South Wales , with local motoring identity Ken Richards. It went on to recount how Kingsford Smith was preparing to also fly under the nearby railway bridge, but was warned by Richards of telegraph wires just in time to prevent a catastrophe. Richards, they added, was a mate of Kingsford Smith, and had flown with him several times in France. In this version of events,
700-506: The Lady Southern Cross fighting a storm 150 miles (240 km) from shore and 200 feet (61 m) over the sea with fire coming from its exhaust. Despite a search for 74 hours over the Bay of Bengal by one person, British pilot Eric Stanley Greenwood, OBE , their bodies were never recovered. Eighteen months later, Burmese fishermen found an undercarriage leg and wheel, with its tyre still inflated, which had been washed ashore at Aye Island in
750-576: The MacRobertson Air Race . Kingsford Smith and co-pilot John Thompson 'Tommy' Pethybridge were flying the Lady Southern Cross overnight from Allahabad (modern Prayagraj ), India, to Singapore , as part of their attempt to break the England-Australia speed record held by C. W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black , when they disappeared over the Andaman Sea in the early hours of 8 November 1935. Aviator Jimmy Melrose claimed to have seen
800-629: The Royal Flying Corps and was awarded the Military Cross in 1917 after being shot down. After the war's end, Kingsford Smith worked as a barnstormer in England and the United States before returning to Australia in 1921. He subsequently joined West Australian Airways as one of the country's first commercial pilots. In 1928, Kingsford Smith completed the first transpacific flight, a three-leg journey from California to Brisbane via Hawaii and Fiji. He and his co-pilot Charles Ulm became celebrities, together with crew members James Warner and Harry Lyon . In
850-602: The Southern Cross Minor is now in the Queensland Museum . In the early 1930s, Smith began developing the Southern Cross automobile as a side project. In 1933, Seven Mile Beach, New South Wales , was used by Kingsford Smith as the runway for the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. In 1934, he purchased a Lockheed Altair , the Lady Southern Cross , with the intention of competing in
900-597: The Tasman Sea crossing to New Zealand not only because it had not yet been done, but also in the hope the Australian Government would grant Australian National Airways a subsidised contract to carry scheduled mail regularly. The Tasman had remained unflown after the failure of the first attempt in January 1928, when New Zealanders John Moncrieff and George Hood had vanished without a trace . Kingsford Smith's flight
950-402: The 2021 Census, there were 2,059 people in Melrose Park. 56.7% of people were born in Australia and 54.4% of people only spoke English at home. The most common responses for religion were Catholic 31.2%, No Religion 31.1% and Anglican 7.4%. Melrose Park is served by bus route 524, connecting the suburb to West Ryde and Parramatta . The nearest train station is Meadowbank Station , located in
1000-669: The Australian operations of large pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and Reckitt Benckiser . In 2005 the NSW Geographic Names Board approved the “boundary creep” of Melrose Park to include much of the Ermington industrial area, which contravenes Principle 6.8.1 of the NSW Address Policy and User Policy May 2021. This “boundary creep” was instigated by City of Parramatta and NSW Geographic Names Board without consultation with City of Ryde or Melrose Park residents within
1050-636: The Ryde Local Government Area. In February 2016, Payce Consolidated Limited announced plans for a major urban renewal of the industrial part of Melrose Park. This would include the development of 5000 new apartments, new affordable housing, public parks and community facilities. In 2017, Payce Consolidated Limited applied to gain trademark approval for the terms, Melrose Park, Melrose Park Village, & Melrose Park Town Centre from IP Australia without success. An electric shuttle bus service to Meadowbank railway station and West Ryde railway station
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#17328523484811100-472: The aircraft had enough fuel for only another 10 minutes flying. In partnership with Ulm, Kingsford Smith established Australian National Airways in 1929. The passenger, mail and freight service commenced operations flying between Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, in January 1930, with five aircraft but closed after crashes in March and November the next year. After collecting his 'old bus', Southern Cross , from
1150-574: The airport is named the Division of Kingsford Smith , and includes the suburb of Kingsford . His most famous aircraft, the Southern Cross , is now preserved and displayed in a purpose-built memorial to Kingsford Smith near the International Terminal at Brisbane Airport . Kingsford Smith sold the plane to the Australian Government in 1935 for £3000 so it could be put on permanent display for
1200-580: The astronomers during the 1922 Solar Eclipse expedition at Wallal , Western Australia. Around this time he began to plan his record-breaking flight across the Pacific. In 1928, Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm arrived in the United States and began to search for an aircraft. Famed Australian polar explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins sold them a Fokker F.VII/3m monoplane, which they named the Southern Cross . At 8:54 a.m. on 31 May 1928, Kingsford Smith and his 4-man crew left Oakland, California , to attempt
1250-524: The centre of Meadowbank . Stage 2 of the Parramatta Light Rail is a proposed light rail link between Westmead and Sydney Olympic Park via Parramatta. The project would include the construction of a bridge across the Parramatta River, between Melrose Park and Wentworth Point . The western part of Ermington, located within the City of Parramatta has historically been industrial, including
1300-538: The churchmen and cabled a protest to Kingsford Smith. As it happened, unfavourable weather developed over the Tasman and the flight was deferred, so it is not known whether or how Kingsford Smith would have heeded the cable. Accompanied by Ulm, navigator Harold Arthur Litchfield , and radio operator Thomas H. McWilliams , a New Zealander made available by the New Zealand Government, Kingsford Smith left Richmond in
1350-522: The community on local and waterfront issues. The Wallumedegal Aboriginal tribe lived in the area between the Lane Cove River and Parramatta River , which was known as Walumetta. Melrose Park was the name of the large housing estate subdivided in 1928, with High Water Mark boundaries of riverfront properties, approved by the Sydney Harbour Trust (Roads and Maritime Services). Melrose Park
1400-581: The crew dropped a wreath in memory of the two New Zealanders who had disappeared during their attempt to cross the Tasman Sea earlier that year. There was a tremendous welcome in Christchurch, where the Southern Cross landed at 0922 after a flight of 14 hours and 25 minutes. About 30,000 people made their way to Wigram, including many students from state schools, who were given the day off, and public servants, who were granted leave until 11 a.m. The event
1450-482: The evening of 10 September, planning to fly overnight to a daylight landing after a flight of about 14 hours. The 2,600 kilometres (1,600 mi) planned route was only just over half the distance between Hawaii and Fiji. After a stormy flight, at times through icing conditions, the Southern Cross made landfall in much improved weather near Cook Strait , the passage between New Zealand's two main islands. At an estimated 241 kilometres (150 mi) out from New Zealand,
1500-464: The famous aviator, as was Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith Elementary School in Vancouver, British Columbia , Canada. He was pictured on the Australian $ 20 paper note (in circulation from 1966 until 1994, when the $ 20 polymer note was introduced to replace it), to honour his contribution to aviation and his accomplishments during his life. He was also depicted on the Australian one-dollar coin of 1997,
1550-667: The feat was accomplished "just after the Armistice" (11 November 1918), but may have been in July 1921, when Kingsford Smith was hosting "joy flights" there, in an aircraft owned by the Diggers' Cooperative Aviation Company. Later accounts have embellished the story. He became one of Australia's first airline pilots when he was chosen by Norman Brearley to fly for the newly formed West Australian Airways , and piloted their Bristol Type 28 Coupe Tourers plane (G-AUDF) that made bi-weekly mail drops to
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1600-457: The first trans-Pacific flight to Australia. The flight was in three stages. The first, from Oakland to Wheeler Army Airfield , Hawaii, was 3,870 kilometres (2,400 mi), taking an uneventful 27 hours 25 minutes (87.54 mph). They took off from Barking Sands on Mana , Kauai , since the runway at Wheeler was not long enough. They headed for Suva , Fiji, 5,077 kilometres (3,155 mi) away, taking 34 hours 30 minutes (91.45 mph). This
1650-401: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Melrose_Park&oldid=1110137336 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Melrose Park, New South Wales Melrose Park is
1700-514: The name at least informally from 1901, although he married in New South Wales under the surname Smith in 1903. In 1903, his parents moved to Canada where they adopted the surname Kingsford Smith. They returned to Sydney in 1907. Kingsford Smith first attended school in Vancouver, Canada. From 1909 to 1911, he was enrolled at St Andrew's Cathedral School , Sydney, where he was a chorister in
1750-561: The public. The plane was carefully stored for many years before the current memorial was built. Kingsford Smith Drive in Brisbane passes through the suburb of his birth, Hamilton . Another Kingsford Smith Drive, which is located in the Canberra district of Belconnen , intersects with Southern Cross Drive. Opened in 2009, Kingsford Smith School in the Canberra suburb of Holt was named after
1800-483: The same year he and Ulm completed the first non-stop flight across Australia from Melbourne to Perth and the first non-stop flight from Australia to New Zealand. They subsequently established Australian National Airways , but the airline and Kingsford Smith's other business ventures failed to achieve commercial success. He continued to participate on air races and attempt other aviation feats. In 1935, Kingsford Smith and his co-pilot Tommy Pethybridge disappeared over
1850-643: The school's cathedral choir, and then at Sydney Technical High School , before becoming an engineering apprentice with the Colonial Sugar Refining Company at 16. Kingsford Smith married Thelma Eileen Hope Corboy in 1923. They divorced in 1929. He married Mary Powell in December 1930. Shortly after his second marriage he joined the New Guard , a radical monarchist, anti-communist, and fascist-inspired organisation. In 1915, he enlisted for duty in
1900-554: The son of William Charles Smith and his wife Catherine Mary (née Kingsford, daughter of Richard Ash Kingsford , a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and mayor in both Brisbane and Cairns municipal councils). His birth was officially registered and announced in the newspapers under the surname Smith, which his family used at that time. The earliest use of the surname Kingsford Smith appears to be by his older brother Richard Harold Kingsford Smith, who used
1950-716: The trans-Pacific flight and told him "I'm going to learn to fly." She later convinced him to take her for a flight in the Southern Cross and went on to become a record-setting aviator, following his example instead of his advice ("Don't attempt to break men's records – and don't fly at night", he told her in 1928 and remembered wryly later). After making the first non-stop flight across Australia from Point Cook near Melbourne to Perth in Western Australia in August 1928, Kingsford Smith and Ulm registered themselves as Australian National Airways (see below). They then decided to attempt
2000-592: The world, begun in 1928. In 1930, he competed in an England to Australia air race , and, flying solo, won the event taking 13 days. He arrived in Sydney on 22 October 1930. In 1931, he purchased an Avro Avian he named the Southern Cross Minor , to attempt an Australia-to-England flight. He later sold the aircraft to Captain W.N. "Bill" Lancaster who vanished on 11 April 1933 over the Sahara Desert ; Lancaster's remains were not found until 1962. The wreck of
2050-480: The wreckage, but that claim has been widely disputed, and no evidence confirming the claim has been forthcoming. The location of the site, approximately 1.8 miles off the coast of Myanmar, has never been publicly released. Lay has worked closely with both the Kingsford Smith and Pethybridge families since 2005. The privately funded project was supported by the government and people of Myanmar. In December 2017 Lay
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2100-614: Was also broadcast live on radio. While the New Zealand Air Force overhauled the Southern Cross free of charge, Kingsford Smith and Ulm were taken on a triumphant tour of New Zealand, flying in Bristol Fighters . The return to Sydney was made from Blenheim , a small city at the north of the South Island . Hampered by fog, severe weather and a minor navigational error, the flight to Richmond took over 23 hours; on touchdown
2150-510: Was an Australian aviation pioneer. He piloted the first transpacific flight and the first flight between Australia and New Zealand. Kingsford Smith was born in Brisbane . He grew up in Sydney , leaving school at the age of 16 and becoming an engineering apprentice. He joined the Australian Army in 1915 and was a motorcycle despatch rider on the Gallipoli campaign . He later transferred to
2200-467: Was approximately 11,566 kilometres (7,187 mi). Kingsford Smith was met by a huge crowd of 26,000 at Eagle Farm Airport , and was welcomed as a hero. Australian aviator Charles Ulm was the relief pilot. The other crewmen were Americans , they were James Warner , the radio operator , and Captain Harry Lyon , the navigator and engineer. The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia has
2250-453: Was planned for take off from Richmond , near Sydney, on Sunday 2 September 1928, with a scheduled landing around 9:00 a.m. on 3 September at Wigram Aerodrome , near Christchurch , the principal city in the South Island of New Zealand. This plan drew a storm of protest from New Zealand churchmen about the "sanctity of the Sabbath being set at naught." The mayor of Christchurch supported
2300-559: Was predicted to be lengthy, Kingsford Smith was permitted to take leave in Australia where he visited his parents. Returning to England, Kingsford Smith was assigned to instructor duties and promoted to Captain . On 1 April 1918, along with other members of the Royal Flying Corps, Kingsford Smith was transferred to the newly established Royal Air Force . On being demobilised in England, in early 1919, he joined Tasmanian Cyril Maddocks, to form Kingsford Smith, Maddocks Aeros Ltd, flying
2350-522: Was proposed. Sustainability proposals include renewable energy generation for new homes, electric charge points for cars, as well as electric shuttle bus services & improved cycleways. The redevelopment is expected to cost $ 5 billion. 33°49′11″S 151°4′38″E / 33.81972°S 151.07722°E / -33.81972; 151.07722 Charles Kingsford Smith Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith MC AFC (9 February 1897 – 8 November 1935), nicknamed Smithy ,
2400-512: Was still searching for parts of the Lady Southern Cross . In 1930, Kingsford Smith was the inaugural recipient of the Segrave Trophy , awarded for "Outstanding Skill, Courage and Initiative on Land, Water [or] in the Air". Kingsford Smith was knighted in the 1932 King's Birthday Honours List as a Knight Bachelor . He received the accolade on 3 June 1932 from His Excellency Sir Isaac Isaacs ,
2450-439: Was survived by his wife, Mary, Lady Kingsford Smith, and their three-year-old son Charles Jnr. Kingsford Smith's autobiography, My Flying Life , was published posthumously in 1937 and became a best-seller. Following The Joint Australian Myanmar Lady Southern Cross Search Expedition II (LSCSEII) in 2009, Lay conducted a total of ten further expeditions to Myanmar to recover wreckage from the site. In 2011, Lay claimed to have found
2500-406: Was the most demanding portion of the journey, as they flew through a massive lightning storm near the equator. The third leg was the shortest, 2,709 kilometres (1,683 mi) in 20 hours (84.15 mph), and crossed the Australian coastline near Ballina before turning north to fly 170 kilometres (110 mi) to Brisbane, where they landed at 10.50 a.m. on 9 June. The total flight distance
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