Smithys error was to take the Southern Cross to Brisbane where airport services are so bad, the aircraft is still there!
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Forever more my four wheel drift around the International Terminal roundabout and into the staff carpark will be ever so slightly slower and with a smile instead of a grimace as I think of 'Smithys error'!
Alas the subtlety and irony of that very funny comment has been lost on the wider audience.
I now fly with First Officers that do not even know the Southern Cross is even there let alone the significance of this truly historic aircraft. Their loss!
Sharing the bookcase with the ever increasing number of Volumes A to Z of how not to enjoy airline flying are first editions of 'The Old Bus' and 'Story of the Sourthern Cross - Trans Pacific Flight 1928' as well as all the P G Taylor yarns.
I know which ones I would rather read.
Sorry for the thread drift.