Rare Aviation Books

Halfway to Heaven Skywriting, Gliding, Stunting

HOINVILLE, Fred

Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1960. Octavo, blue hardcover, ix, 240 pp., eight plates. A little bump at spine tail, otherwise a very good copy in dust jacket. First edition. A scarce copy.

For the author nothing but flying could provide the same exhilaration, or the same beauty, which he found in the earth spread out below like a living map and even more in the majesty of the sky itself. This book is a tribute to the vocation he loved and to other men who, like himself, have set out to explore the "new ocean of the air". Fred Hoinville died in a glider accident shortly after Halfway to heaven was finished. This is the only book about skywriting. Item #2294

Price (AUD): $75.00