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England Australia Flight 1919
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
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Volume entitled "England-Australia Flight 1919: An Index of Material relating to the Flight held in Collections in Australia December 1979" compiled by the Australian Society for Aero-historical Preservation. The volume was prepared on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the first flight from England to Australia by Captain Ross Smith, Lt. Keith Smith, Sgt. J.M. Bennett and Sgt. W.H. Shiers. It lists material held in various libraries and institutions throughout Australia.
Flight To Fame
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Author : Ross Smith
language : en
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Release Date : 2019-05-08
Flight To Fame written by Ross Smith and has been published by Wakefield Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Flight to Fame, a classic adventure story, tells the hair-raising tale of the world-first flight from England to Australia, in the words of the pilot, (Sir) Ross Smith. 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. Originally published as 14,000 Miles Through the Air (1922), Ross Smith's book recounts their danger-ridden, record-breaking journey - a mere 16 years after the Wright brothers first defied gravity for just a few seconds. This richly illustrated edition, published to coincide with the flight's centenary, is introduced and edited by historian Peter Monteath.
The Greatest Air Race
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Author : Hamilton Nelson Eustis
language : en
Publisher: Angus & Robertson
Release Date : 1969
The Greatest Air Race written by Hamilton Nelson Eustis and has been published by Angus & Robertson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Aeronautics categories.
Flight To Fame
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Author : Ross Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04-16
Flight To Fame written by Ross Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-16 with categories.
Flight to Fame, a classic adventure story, tells the hair-raising tale of the world-first flight from England to Australia, in the words of the pilot, (Sir) Ross Smith. 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. Originally published as 14,000 Miles Through the Air (1922), Ross Smith's book recounts their danger-ridden, record-breaking journey - a mere 16 years after the Wright brothers first defied gravity for just a few seconds. This richly illustrated edition, published to coincide with the flight's centenary, is introduced and edited by historian Peter Monteath.
Papers On 50th Anniversary Flight England To Australia 1919 1969
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Papers On 50th Anniversary Flight England To Australia 1919 1969 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Aeronautics categories.
15 official souvenir covers of Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith's first airmail flight from England to Australia, 1919 Nov. 12-1919 Dec. 10. Also includes a memo from 50th Anniversary Flight Committee, Adelaide, to clients who ordered the England-Australia no. 2 and 3 series of 15 covers; promotional leaflets for commemorative souvenirs and two photographs of the aircraft used in the commemorative flight.
Anzac And Aviator
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Author : Michael Molkentin
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Release Date : 2019-10-01
Anzac And Aviator written by Michael Molkentin and has been published by Allen & Unwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-01 with History categories.
'He was courageous. He was ambitious. He was skilled. He was visionary. He could be ruthless. He was someone born of a new nation. But he was of a time now long past. And yet in the language of a later generation it could be said he had the "right stuff" . . . Michael Molkentin captures [Ross Smith] brilliantly.' - Andy Thomas, NASA Astronaut (Retired) In the smouldering aftermath of the First World War a young Australian pilot and his crew prepare to attempt the inconceivable: a flight, halfway around the globe, from England to Australia. The 18,000 kilometre odyssey will take 28 days and test these men and their twin-engine biplane to the limit. It is a trans-continental feat that will change the world and bring the air age to Australia. It will also prove to be the culminating act in the extraordinary and tragically brief life of its commander, Captain Sir Ross Smith. Raised on a remote sheep station in the dying days of Australia's colonial frontier, there was little in Ross Smith's childhood that suggested a future as one of the world's great pioneering aviators. He went to war in 1914, serving with the light horse at Gallipoli and in the Sinai before volunteering for the fledgling Australian Flying Corps. In a new dimension of warfare, Ross Smith survived two gruelling years of aerial combat over Palestine to emerge as one of the most skilled and highly decorated Australian pilots of the war. In 1919 he was a pilot on the first ever mission to survey an air route from Cairo to the East Indies, before gaining international fame as the winner of the government's £10,000 prize for leading the first aircrew to fly from England to Australia. His attempt to exceed this by circumnavigating the world by air in 1922 would end in disaster. Drawing on the rich and extensive collection of Ross Smith's private papers, Anzac & Aviator tells, for the first time, the gripping story of a remarkable aviator, the extraordinary times in which he lived and the air race that changed the world. 'Standing with Lindbergh, Earhart and Kingsford Smith as one of the greatest pioneers of the air, Sir Ross Smith's life is brilliantly captured in this compelling biography.' - Richard Champion de Crespigny AM, bestselling author and captain of QF32
Flight To Fame
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Author : Sir Ross Macpherson Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Flight To Fame written by Sir Ross Macpherson Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Aeronautics categories.
Flight to Fame, a classic adventure story, tells the hair-raising tale of the world-first flight from England to Australia, in the words of the pilot, (Sir) Ross Smith. 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. Originally published as 14,000 Miles Through the Air (1922), Ross Smith's book recounts their danger-ridden, record-breaking journey - a mere 16 years after the Wright brothers first defied gravity for just a few seconds. This richly illustrated edition, published to coincide with the flight's centenary, is introduced and edited by historian Peter Monteath.
The Sky Racers
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Author : Peter Maiden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
The Sky Racers written by Peter Maiden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Aeronautics categories.
Fasten your fleecy-lined flying suit, and pull on your leather helmet, goggles, and gloves. It is 1919, the First World War is over, and the Commonwealth Government has put up £10,000 prize money for the first Australian air crew to fly from London to Port Darwin. Up until now, the longest flight anywhere in the world has been 2,000 miles, yet this one will be 11,000 miles, almost halfway round the planet - with very few landing strips on the way. Sixteen outstanding young Australian aviators - decorated ex-servicemen - have the opportunity to participate in this unique air race. Kingsford Smith, Bert Hinkler, Hudson Fysh, Keith and Ross Smith, and the indefatigable Ray Parer - all to become legendary for their exploits - are involved. By today's standards their aircraft would be considered almost unbelievably primitive. Yet at the time, they were at the cutting edge of the new science of aeronautics. Still, only six flyers will reach Australia by aeroplane. Others will never see their country again.
Flight And Adventures Of Parer And Mcintosh
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Author : Raymond John Paul 358610850Parer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Flight And Adventures Of Parer And Mcintosh written by Raymond John Paul 358610850Parer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with 361666624Aeronautics -- Flights categories.
Memorabilia And Photographs Relating To The First Flight From England To Australia By Ross And Keith Smith
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Author : John S. B. Furlong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date :
Memorabilia And Photographs Relating To The First Flight From England To Australia By Ross And Keith Smith written by John S. B. Furlong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Air pilots categories.
Memorabilia and photographs collected by John Furlong relating to the first aerial flight from England to Australia by Ross and Keith Smith. Records comprising photographs of Ross and Keith Smith and crew flying the Vickers Vimy in the 1919 England to Australia Air Race (series 1); photographs of memorials and commemorations of the first flight from England to Australia (series 2); items commemorating the first England to Australia aerial flight (series 3); items and papers commemorating the 1986 Jubilee re-enactment of the landing of the Vickers Vimy crew in Adelaide (series 4); papers relating to the 70th anniversary commemorations of the first England to Australia aerial flight (series 5); illustrations of Vickers Vimy aircraft (series 6); papers relating to aviation in South Australia (series 7); a short 16 mm film of the unveiling ceremony of the Ross and Keith Smith memorial stone and plaque at Enfield in 1966 (F-1); videorecording of the 1986 re-enactment flight celebrations (F-2); and a videorecording of a copy of a documentary on Australian pioneer aviator Bert Hinkler (F-3).