Great Australian aviation stories : characters, pioneers, triumphs, tragedies and near misses / Jim Haynes & Jillian Dellit.

Collection type Library
Author Haynes, Jim.; Dellit, Jillian.; Australian Broadcasting Corporation.;
Call Number 629. 130994 H424
Document type Monograph
Year 2006.
Pagination xv, 253 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 24 cm.
Publisher ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation,
Note "First published in July 2006"--T.p.verso. Bibliography: p. 251. Here are the amazing true stories of Smithy, Ross and Keith Smith, Bert Hinkler, Amy Johnson and Nancy Bird-Walton...and many more, less famous but no less brave. Great Australian Aviation Stories includes tales of our early outback aviation pioneers anddaring feats of bravery by our flyers in both World Wars. Stirring first hand accounts of history-making flights across uncharted oceans and continents by Kingsford Smith and Ross and Keith Smith go hand in hand with the history of towns like Muldura and Norromine, which became aviation centres and remain part of our heritage.
Place made Sydney, N. S. W.

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