Author: Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
My Flying Life : an Authentic Biography Prepared Under the Personal Supervision of and from the Diaries and Papers of the Late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith
Author: Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
My Flying Life: an Authentic Biography Prepared Under the Personal Supervision of and from the Diaries and Papers of the Late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, with a Pref. by Geoffrey Rawson
Author: Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
My Flying Life. An Authentic Biography Prepared Under the Personal Supervision of and from the Diaries and Papers of the Late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith. With a Preface by Geoffrey Rawson [the Editor]. With 27 Illustrations [including Portraits].
Author: Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
My Flying Life. An Authentic Biography Prepared ... from the Diaries and Papers of the Late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith
Author: Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Flying the Southern Cross
Author: Michael Molkentin
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 064227746X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In 1928, Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm made the first trans-Pacific flight in the Southern Cross - an aircraft constructed largely of wood and fabric. They made the trip from Oakland, California, in nine days, during which they faced electrical storms, torrential rain, equipment failure, and fuel shortages. Navigational aids were primitive - contact with the outside world was by Morse code only - and safety measures were non-existent. After many close calls, they triumphantly landed in Brisbane, where a crowd of 15,000 welcomed them as heroes. Throughout this extraordinary journey, Ulm kept a logbook in which he recorded his raw impressions of the flight. Using Ulm's logbook, plus contemporary newspaper accounts and official documents, Flying the Southern Cross tells the gripping tale of this history-making flight, and the aviators who made it happen.
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 064227746X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In 1928, Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm made the first trans-Pacific flight in the Southern Cross - an aircraft constructed largely of wood and fabric. They made the trip from Oakland, California, in nine days, during which they faced electrical storms, torrential rain, equipment failure, and fuel shortages. Navigational aids were primitive - contact with the outside world was by Morse code only - and safety measures were non-existent. After many close calls, they triumphantly landed in Brisbane, where a crowd of 15,000 welcomed them as heroes. Throughout this extraordinary journey, Ulm kept a logbook in which he recorded his raw impressions of the flight. Using Ulm's logbook, plus contemporary newspaper accounts and official documents, Flying the Southern Cross tells the gripping tale of this history-making flight, and the aviators who made it happen.
A Survey of Aeronautics
Author: United States Air Force Academy. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Australian Explorers by Sea, Land, and Air, 1788-1988
Author: Ian Francis McLaren
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Special Bibliography Series
Australian Travellers in the South Seas
Author: Nicholas Halter
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760464155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This book offers a wide-ranging survey of Australian engagement with the Pacific Islands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through over 100 hitherto largely unexplored accounts of travel, the author explores how representations of the Pacific Islands in letters, diaries, reminiscences, books, newspapers and magazines contributed to popular ideas of the Pacific Islands in Australia. It offers a range of valuable insights into continuities and changes in Australian regional perspectives, showing that ordinary Australians were more closely connected to the Pacific Islands than has previously been acknowledged. Addressing the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, this cultural history probes issues of nation and empire, race and science, commerce and tourism by focusing on significant episodes and encounters in history. This is a foundational text for future studies of Australia’s relations with the Pacific, and histories of travel generally.
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760464155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This book offers a wide-ranging survey of Australian engagement with the Pacific Islands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through over 100 hitherto largely unexplored accounts of travel, the author explores how representations of the Pacific Islands in letters, diaries, reminiscences, books, newspapers and magazines contributed to popular ideas of the Pacific Islands in Australia. It offers a range of valuable insights into continuities and changes in Australian regional perspectives, showing that ordinary Australians were more closely connected to the Pacific Islands than has previously been acknowledged. Addressing the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, this cultural history probes issues of nation and empire, race and science, commerce and tourism by focusing on significant episodes and encounters in history. This is a foundational text for future studies of Australia’s relations with the Pacific, and histories of travel generally.
Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia No. 30 - 1937
Author:
Publisher: Aust. Bureau of Statistics
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
Publisher: Aust. Bureau of Statistics
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description