Pilots Nigel Love, Charles Ulm honoured at Sydney Airport
Two of Australia’s aviation pioneers have had parts of Sydney Airport named in their honour as part of centenary celebrations for the site.
Two of Australia’s aviation pioneers have had parts of Sydney Airport named in their honour as part of centenary celebrations for the site.
Nigel Love — who in 1919 chose a bullock paddock at Mascot for his aviation ambitions — and Charles Ulm — who circumnavigated Australia in 1927 — have had two headquarters buildings named after them.
Love piloted the first commercial flight in Sydney in 1919. The paddock he chose later became Sydney Airport.
Ulm did not only circumnavigate Australia. He was also part of a four-man crew on the world’s first trans-Pacific flight from the USA in 1928.
About 300,000 people welcomed the aircraft, called the Southern Cross, as it landed.
Love and Ulm’s descendants, as well as those of Charles Kingsford Smith and Nancy-Bird Walton, were at a ceremony at the airport on Tuesday for the renaming of the buildings.
Other notable arrivals in the airport’s 100 years have included Australia’s first jetliner in 1955 and the Beatles in 1964.
There was also the arrival of the supersonic Concorde in 1972, and the world’s first commercial A380 passenger flight in 2007.
The airport has expanded to have more than 44.4 million passengers pass through its gates in a year.
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