The Greatest Flight Reliving the Aerial Triumph that Changed the World
Atlanta: Turner Publishing, 1995. Large quarto, green hardcover cloth with gilt spine lettering, 256 pp., profusely illustrated. A fine copy in dust jacket. Historical text by Terry Gwynn-Jones. Foreword by Walter J. Boyne.
On December 10th, 1919, just 16 years after the Wright brothers had propelled the world's first flying machine into the air and stayed aloft for an erratic 12 seconds, a daring young Australian, fresh from the Allied victory on the battlefields of the Great War, pulled off the most stunning feat in aviation history. When he landed his Vimy biplane bomber on Darwin's tiny Fannie Bay airfield, in outbach Australia, Captain Ross Smith not only made history, he began a revolution in transport that shook the globe. Item #2615
Price (AUD): $150.00