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Flight to Fame : Victory in the 1919 Great Air Race, England to Australia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Ross.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smith, Ross.
- London-to-Australia Air Race, 1919.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (178 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Adelaide : Wakefield Press Pty, Limited, 2019.
- Summary:
- This book tells the hair-raising tale of the world-first flight from England to Australia, in the words of (Sir) Ross Smith. In 1919, Australia's PM announced a prize of £10,000 for the first flight from Great Britain to Australia in under 30 days. The victorious pilots, Ross and Keith Smith, landed in Darwin late in 1919 to international acclaim.
- Contents:
- Cover
- About the editor
- Portrait of Ross Smith in flight gear
- Title page
- Imprint
- Contents
- View of the Vickers Vimy crew
- Foreword
- Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith's arrival from England at Northfield
- Ross Smith (pilot) and Mustard (rear gunner) in their Bristol F.2 B fighter
- Introduction
- A Note on the Text
- The Route Followed page 1
- The Route Followed page 2
- Time Table with Distance
- Preface to the First Edition
- Chapter I: Preparations
- Chapter II: Through Cloud Ocean to Lyons
- Chapter III: Lyons to Rome
- Chapter IV: Rome to Cairo
- Chapter V: Cairo to Bagdad
- Chapter VI: Over Mesopot to Karachi
- Chapter VII: Karachi to Rangoon
- Chapter VIII: In the Clouds above Burma
- Chapter IX: Siam to Singapore
- Chapter X: Singapore to Surabaya
- Chapter XI: Into Australia
- Wakefield Press
- Back cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Smith, Ross Flight to Fame
- ISBN:
- 9781743059159
- 1743059159
- OCLC:
- 1302007531
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