Flight to fame : victory in the 1919 Great Air Race, England to Australia / Sir Ross Smith ; edited and introduced by Peter Monteath ; foreword by Air Chief Marshal Sir Angus Houston, AK, AFC (Ret'd)
- Bib ID:
- 8053474
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Smith, Ross Macpherson, Sir, 1892-1922, author
- Description:
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- Mile End, South Australia : Wakefield Press, 2019
- ©2019
- x, 163 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781743056400 (paperback)
- Summary:
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In March 1919, Australia's prime minister announced a prize of £10,000 for the first successful flight from Great Britain to Australia in under 30 days. Late that same year, the victorious pilots, Ross and Keith Smith, landed in Darwin to international acclaim. The New York Times gushed: 'Captain Ross Smith has done a wonderful thing for the prestige of the British Empire. He must be hailed as the foremost living aviator.' Their achievement was the forerunner to the age of international air travel. During the race, Ross and his brother Keith (his co-pilot and navigator) wrote in their diaries daily, recording the journey of their four-man crew in their Vickers Vimy G-EAOU twin-engine plane, its open cockpit exposing them to snow, sleet, hail and unbearable heat.
- Full contents:
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- Foreword
- Introduction
- Preface
- 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.
- Notes:
- First published as 14,000 miles through the air, 1922.
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