A flight against all odds : Scotland to Australia in 1968 / Kate Clements (formerly Kathy Wright)
- Bib ID:
- 10012753
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Clements, Kate, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Edition:
- Digital edition.
- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at the National Library of Australia, State Library of South Australia
- Description:
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- Glen Waverley, Vic. : Sid Harta Publishers Pty Ltd, 2014
- ©2014
- 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour), colour map.
- ISBN:
- 9781742984575 (EPUB)
- Summary:
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It's not everyone's idea of a honeymoon - a 12000 mile flight from Scotland to Australia in a single engine, canvas covered plane. Even less idyllic if the pilot has only 44 hours flying experience and the navigator learned her job via a do-it-yourself course. But George and Kathy Wright from Glasgow did it - eventually. It took four months of trepidation and resourcefulness, fear and frustration, and delight and innocent blundering through the formalities of four continents. Refuelling in mid-air... landing at secret military airfields... trailed by police... the plane looted... caught up in the sensitivities of politics... marital tensions. Kathy Wright who, in 1968 was 24, kept a frank and meticulous diary. It is an absorbing, amusing and exciting story of the epic journey across the world of two young and very naive people.
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2014
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