| Description |
1 online resource (178 p.) |
| 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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Smith, Ross, Sir, 1892-1922.
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| SUBJECT |
London-to-Australia Air Race, 1919. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2013022040
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| Subject |
Airplane racing -- Australia -- History
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Airplane racing -- England -- History
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Airplane racing
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Australia
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England
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Monteath, Peter
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| ISBN |
1743059159 |
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9781743059159 |
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9781743059166 |
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1743059167 |
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