Alliance Airlines honours "Smithy"

As mentioned in my previous post, today marks the 90th Anniversary of the Smithy and Ulm's Southern Cross landing here at Brisbane’s Eagle Farm Aerodrome, having left Oakland, USA, 10 days earlier. The aircraft, a Fokker F.VIIb/3m Trimotor, flew 11,585km and had been airborne for 84 hours, with refuelling stops in Hawaii and Fiji. (Full story follows this post)  Today Alliance Airlines in their Fokker F28 MK 100 specially painted and aptly re-registered to VH-FGB did a re-enactment landing. FGB departed Brisbane at 10.10am.

ALLIANCE FOKKER F28 MK 100 VH-FGB (CN 11446)

and flew down the coast before returning and setting up a landing time of 10.50am.. the exact time the Southern Cross landed in Brisbane 90 yrs ago.

Watching this aircraft land and knowing the nostalgia behind it, I tried to imagine what it would be like 90 yrs ago when it did land way back then.

Below are some other photos I took today.

SINGAPORE AIRLINES A350-941 9V-SMI (CN 077)

SINGAPORE AIRLINE A350-941 9V-SMU (CN 186)

CHINA EASTERN A330-243 B-5962 (CN 1588)

CHINA SOUTHERN A330-343 B-8362 (CN 1815)

E V A AIR A330-203 B-16310 (CN 0678)

CHINA AIRLINES A350-941 B-18902 (CN 057)

AIR CANADA B787-8 C-GHPU (CN 35259)

QANTAS A330-202 VH-EBA (CN 0508)

KOREAN AIR A330-323 HL-8025 (CN 1611)

ALLIANCE F28 MK 70 VH-JFB (CN 11521)

QANTAS B747-438 VH-OEJ (CN 32914)

AIR NIUGINI B767-383 P2-PXW (CN 25365)

QANTASLINK DASH 8 Q400 VH-QON (CN 4218)

VIRGIN AUSTRALIA B737-838 VH-YIV (CN 40698)
PHILIPPINE A340-313 RP-C3439 (CN 0459)

PHILIPPINE AIRLINES A340-313 RP-C3439 (CN 0459)

VIRGIN AUSTRALIA B737-7FE VH-VBZ (CN 34322)

JETSTAR A320-232 VH-VFL (CN 5489)

NAURU AIRLINES B737-3HS VH-VLI (CN 27125)

VIRGIN AUSTRALIA B737-8FE VH-VOR (CN 33799)

VIRGIN AUSTRALIA B737-8FE VH-VUQ (CN 36605)

JETSTAR A321-232 VH-VWT (CN 3717)

QANTAS B737-838 VH-VXI (CN 33479)

NAURU AIRLINES B737-319 VH-XNU (CN 25609)

ALLIANCE F28-MK 100 VH-XWT (CN11338)

QANTASLINK B717-2K9 VH-YQY (CN 55056)

AIR NEW ZEALAND B777-319 ZK-OKO (CN 38407)