Bright Sparcs
Biographical entry
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McGinness, Paul Joseph |
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Paul Joseph McGinness, an Irishman, and Hudson Fysh, both ex-Flying Corps lieutenants, were engaged in 1919 in surveying an air-route across Australia for the first England-Australia air race. In 1920 he was one of the founders of the first airline in eastern Australia, Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Ltd. (Qantas) and piloted the first Qantas flight in 1922. |
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