Aviator. A native of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, he accompanied (as a relief pilot), famed Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith, and Americans James Warner, and Captain Harry Lyon (engineer, navigator, radio operator), on board the 'Southern Cross,' a Fokker FVII-3M monoplane, on the first Trans-Pacific flight on May 31, 1928. The crew flew from Oakland, California, to Hawaii, then to Suva, Fiji, and finally to Brisbane, Australia, where they landed at the Eagle Farm Airport on June 8, 1928. The men were considered heroes and were awarded the Air Force Cross. Also that year the men made the first Trans-Tasman flight from Sydney, Australia, to Christchurch, New Zealand. In December 1928, they formed the Australian National Airways Ltd., but that business folded in February of 1933. On December 4, 1934, Ulm was lost at sea while piloting the twin-engine 'Star of Australia' somewhere in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii. Also lost was co-pilot George Littlejohn and navigator/radioman J. Leon Skilling. The men were trying to retrace the 1928 flight from Oakland, California, to Australia, at the time of there disappearance.
Aviator. A native of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, he accompanied (as a relief pilot), famed Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith, and Americans James Warner, and Captain Harry Lyon (engineer, navigator, radio operator), on board the 'Southern Cross,' a Fokker FVII-3M monoplane, on the first Trans-Pacific flight on May 31, 1928. The crew flew from Oakland, California, to Hawaii, then to Suva, Fiji, and finally to Brisbane, Australia, where they landed at the Eagle Farm Airport on June 8, 1928. The men were considered heroes and were awarded the Air Force Cross. Also that year the men made the first Trans-Tasman flight from Sydney, Australia, to Christchurch, New Zealand. In December 1928, they formed the Australian National Airways Ltd., but that business folded in February of 1933. On December 4, 1934, Ulm was lost at sea while piloting the twin-engine 'Star of Australia' somewhere in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii. Also lost was co-pilot George Littlejohn and navigator/radioman J. Leon Skilling. The men were trying to retrace the 1928 flight from Oakland, California, to Australia, at the time of there disappearance.
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