Talk:Charles Kingsford Smith

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More information about this article... The following comments have been left for this page: The article needs dividing into sections, and much more detail about the various record-breaking flights. It's also completely missing information on certain aspects of CKS's life, for example his family, the Coffee Royal scandal, and Australian National Airways. FiggyBee 16:39, 21 January 2007 (UTC) (edit)

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Assessment comments The following comments were left by the assessors: (edit · history · watch · refresh) The article needs dividing into sections, and much more detail about the various record-breaking flights. It's also completely missing information on certain aspects of CKS's life, for example his family, the Coffee Royal scandal, and Australian National Airways. FiggyBee 16:39, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

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• Added that he is pictured on the Australian $20 note. Werdna648 01:55, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Actually AFAIK he was on the $20 paper note (1966-1994), but not on current the $20 polymer banknote. See Australian dollar. --68.198.246.166 01:55, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

He was a great bloke, he was nice he liked to help other people in times of crisis but most of all he was a pioneer. (Unsigned, undated comment)

Note the contradiction: He lived in Vancouver from 1905 to 1909, but was rescued on Bondi Beach in 1907. Did they go back and forth across the Pacific, or is there a problem here? 220.253.57.84 01:40, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Coffee Royal" Incident

I'm surprised there's no mention of the "coffee royal" affair in this article - it seems like it was a big deal at the time: http://www.wrcs.org.au/articles/32.htm —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 63.240.228.37 (talk • contribs).

Yep, I was going to write about it a while back - I got as far as putting a section header in - but then I got distracted. FiggyBee 10:39, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:11, 13 February 2008 (UTC)