Hudson Fysh / Grantlee Kieza
- Bib ID:
- 8687695
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Kieza, Grantlee, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
- Thumbnail
- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at the National Library of Australia, State Library of New South Wales
- Description:
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- Sydney, NSW : ABC Books, 2022
- Sydney, NSW : HarperCollinsPublishers Australia Pty Limited, 2022
- ©2022
- 1 online resource (480 pages) : illustrations (some colour), map, portraits.
- File Characteristics:
- text file EPUB 72.6MB
- ISBN:
- 9781460713488 (EPUB)
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access : Available online.
- Summary:
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Hudson Fysh was a decorated World War I hero who not only founded Australia's national airline, Qantas, but steered it for almost half a century from its humble beginnings with two rickety biplanes to the age of the jumbo jets. More than anyone, Fysh shaped the way that Australians saw the world. A sickly boy traumatised by his parents' broken marriage, Fysh was a poor student, but the courage and determination he developed playing sport propelled him through his toughest challenges and became the foundations of this great Australian life. One of Australia's celebrated Light Horsemen at Gallipoli, Fysh went on to fly death-defying missions for Lawrence of Arabia with the Australian Flying Corps and battle Germans in deadly dogfights in the skies over Palestine. On his return from the Great War, Fysh launched his bush airline, the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Ltd (Qantas), with the help of a wartime pilot friend and some western Queensland graziers. After flying the first scheduled Qantas passenger flight in 1922, he ushered in the Flying Doctor Service that still assists remote communities and the first Qantas international airmail services, which revolutionised Australian communications. Fysh went on to guide Qantas through the dark days of the Great Depression, the perilous years of World War II, when the airline flew dangerous missions for the Allies, and into the great boom in international tourism that followed with the jet age, giving millions of Australians their first experience of international travel.
- Notes:
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- "The extraordinary life of the WWI hero who founded Qantas and gave Australia its wings". -- Cover screen.
- Title from title screen.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Also available in print.
- Subject:
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- Fysh, Wilmot Hudson, Sir, 1895-1974
- Qantas Airways -- History
- Air pilots -- Australia -- Biography
- Airlines -- Australia -- History
- Businesspeople -- Australia -- Biography
- 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
- Australasian & Pacific history
- Biography & True Stories
- Biography: business & industry
- Biography: historical, political & military
- History - Military - World War I
- History of engineering & technology
- History: specific events & topics
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- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2022
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