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INDEX
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Abbot, Val 195
ABC 2BL 332, 347
Adelaide 357, 393, 422
Adelaide Airways 604
Adelaide-Perth postal route 249, 258
Aerial League of Australia 32, 42, 46, 49, 269, 599
aerial warfare 74
Air Combat Operations Manual 132
casualty rates 109
Dicta Boelcke 97
survival 112
techniques 106–7, 110–11
Aéro-Club de France 41
Aero-Digest 523
Aeronautical Society of Great Britain 29
Aeroplane 564
Affleck, Harold 492
Age 266, 267, 511
ailerons 46
Air Accident Investigation Committee Inquiry 416–27
Air Force Cross 152, 355
Air Force Reserve 194
Air Navigation Bill 184
Air New Zealand 597
air routes 143
Australia, in 156, 160–2, 498, 504
trans-Tasman 545
Aircraft 355, 419, 421
airmail services 194, 217, 300, 365, 369, 470–1, 481
England, to 464, 482–3, 543
Jubilee Flight, on see Jubilee Flight
Ajana, HMAT 75–6
Alaska 232, 244
Alaskan 233, 234, 235, 236,
244
Albatross, HMAS 386, 399
Albatros planes 68, 71, 94, 95, 96
Albury 529–31, 595
Alcock, Captain John 246
Alice Springs 395, 402, 406, 414, 425
All Inventor Vegetarian Club of Interplanetary Cosmopolitans 251, 601
Allan, George Urquhart ‘Scotty’ 437, 470, 481, 482, 485, 503, 581, 609
Allen, William 486
Alliance PZ Seabird 163
Allmenröder, Karl 105
Aloha 277
Amalgamated Wireless Australasia Limited 552
American-Hawaiian Steamship Company 164
Amsterdam 430, 459, 482, 531, 594
Amundsen, Roald 230, 245
Anderson, Constance 224, 293, 408
Anderson, Keith 201–2, 203, 216, 223–4, 226, 227, 228, 229, 232, 237, 240, 241, 243, 248, 249, 258, 266, 269, 271, 275, 282, 286–7, 288, 289, 296, 301, 306, 326, 328, 353, 354, 358, 370, 386, 393, 394–9, 402, 403, 404, 405, 407, 408, 409, 410–15 , 416, 419, 420, 423, 425, 426, 428–9, 475, 542, 567, 596
Anderson v Ulm & Kingsford Smith 370
Anzac, HMAS 338
ANZAC 513
Aorangi, RMMS 17, 431, 566, 569–70
Aotearoa 294
Apollo 406, 471
Arctic expedition 244–6
Argus 265, 351, 566
Ark Royal, HMS 85
Armstrong, Neil 602
Armstrong Siddeley Lynx engines 430
Armstrong Siddeley Puma engines 195
Armstrong Whitworth AW.15
monoplane 497
Armstrong Whitworth FK8 212
Ascanius 189
Associated Oil Company 293
Associated Press 491, 548
Astraea 497, 498
Atalanta 405, 407, 411
Athens 479, 578
Atlantic 147
Atlantic crossing attempt by Hawker and Grieve 147–52
Atlantic crossing by Hinkler 483–4
Atlantic Union Oil Company 372
Auckland 492
Australia
encouragement of aviation post-World War I 144, 183
first flight in 46–8
prize for flight from England to Australia 144–5, 152, 157–9, 164–7, 177–8
record flight round 258
Australia to England flights 371–81, 469, 475–9
Australia to New Zealand flight 293–5
Australian Aerial Derby 215
Australian Aircraft and Engineering Company Ltd 155, 170
Australian Flying Corps (AFC) 91, 113, 134, 136, 156, 165, 178, 385
good luck charms 108
Australian Imperial Force (AIF) 61
Australian War Records Section 114
3rd Brigade 63, 72, 73
5th Division 88–9
24th Machine Gun Company 133
53rd Australian Field Battery, 5th Division 132, 133
Australian Light Horse 81
Australian National Airways (ANA) 359, 360, 369, 371, 372, 427, 431, 437, 441–2, 450, 463, 464, 465, 466–7, 469, 470, 471, 474, 480–1, 494, 497, 548
Austria–Hungary 60
A.V. Roe (Avro) agency 180
Avro aeroplanes 155, 189, 298, 365, 369, 430, 437, 454, 475, 594
Aye Island 585–6
Baden-Powell, Lieutenant B.F.S. 29, 65
Baghdad 578, 594
Bailleul 88
Baird, Arthur 212, 214
Balderstone, Cynthia 598
Bali 531
Ball, Ralph 97
Bangkok 482
Banks, Ralph C. 45
barnstorming 176–7, 181–2, 474, 492, 493, 505, 544, 573
Barry, Dr Alfred 51
Batman, John 506
Battle of Passchendaele 112–13
Battle of the Somme 88
Bavin, Thomas 280, 297, 354
Baxter, Milton 587
Bay of Bengal 472, 482, 579, 581
Bean, Charles E.W. 114, 157
Beasley, Jack 459–60
Belgium 60, 65, 71
Bell, Alexander Graham 5
Bellanca plane 237
Bellevue Hill 463
Bennett, Jimmy 200
Berlin 64, 73, 455, 459
Berlin, Irving ‘Blue Skies’ 433–4
Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger 39
Bicycling News 21
Bishop, Billy 97
Black, Tom Campbell 508, 522, 527, 528, 529, 546, 574, 579, 600
Black Magic 522, 523
Blackburn Aircraft and Motor Company 144, 154
Blackburn Kangaroo 144–5, 154, 157–9
Blackburn, Robert 144, 145, 155, 157
Blake, Arthur 195
Blake, Major David 134
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 253
Bledisloe, Lord 537
Blériot Aéronautique 60, 591
Blériot, Alicia 30, 34, 39, 40, 263, 493, 591
Blériot, Louis 27, 30–1, 33–42, 60, 71, 153, 260, 263, 369, 493, 591
Blériot, Simone 263
Blériot XI 33–4, 71, 591
‘blind flying’ 345–6
Blythe, Dick 252
Boeing Aircraft Company 285, 593
Boeing 247-D 522
Boelcke, Oswald 96–7
Bondi Surf Live Saving Club 23
Bouteil, Astrid 608
Bower, Sir Alfred 523
Brain, Lester 406–7, 411, 439, 604, 609
Brassac, Antonio 45, 46, 47
Brearley, Major Norman 105–6, 183–4, 194–5, 197, 201, 204, 216, 221, 222–3, 228, 240, 241, 249, 258, 385, 396, 403, 441, 504, 505, 604, 609
Briggs, Lieutenant F.S. 241
Brill, David 588
Brinsmead, Lieutenant Colonel Horace C. 204, 216, 239–40, 259, 352, 394–5, 451, 459, 481, 482, 488
Brisbane 6, 7, 178, 343, 349–53, 405, 437, 440, 471, 515, 524, 536, 543
Brisbane–Darwin route 471
Bristol Tourer 28 240, 266, 267
British Air Ministry 463, 574–5
British Expeditionary Forces 92
British Imperial Antarctic Expedition 230
British Museum 222, 230
Broad, Ted 198
Broadmeadow camp 69
Broken Hill 395, 402
Brown, Captain Roy 130
Brown, Lieutenant Arthur 246
Bruce, Prime Minister Stanley 232, 337, 338, 339, 365, 384, 409
‘bubble sextant’ 309
Buie, Robert 132–3, 605
Bulletin, The 528
Bundaberg 189, 300, 483, 490, 594
Burma 457, 475–7, 579, 585
Burrage, Vice-Admiral Guy Hamilton 262, 264
Byrd, Richard E. 245, 278, 369
Cadigan, Neil
A Man Among Mavericks: Lester Brain, Australia’s Greatest Aviator 604
Cairo 76–7, 79, 80
Calais 34, 35, 38
Californian Bank of Los Angeles 302
Callaghan, Mary Josephine (Jo) see Ulm, Josephine
Calmette, Gaston 42
Campbell, Alan 179
Campbell, Eric 405, 474
Campbell-Jones, Herbert 216, 232, 266
Canadian Pacific Railway 18
Canard 20
Canberra 357, 466
Canberra 385, 391, 394, 400, 401–2, 404, 443, 589
Canberra Times 589
Cantor, John 386, 402, 405
Cape Londonderry 377
Captain Cook 553
Carlin, Tom 224
Carnarvon 220–1, 227, 237, 396
Carpentier, Georges 251
Cartier, Louis 20–1
Cassidy, Jack 423–4
Cathay Pacific Airways 610
Catton, Tom 316, 539
Cayley, George 2
‘On Aerial Navigation’ 2
cellular kites 3–4, 5, 21
Centenary Air Race 506–19, 522–4, 527, 532, 537, 600
Chaffey, Andrew 302–3
Chamberlin, Clarence 264
Chanute, Octave 1, 5, 11, 15–16, 23 Progress in Flying Machines 1–2, 11
Chaseling, Eric 437
Chateau, Captain Clive 372, 375, 376, 379, 422
Chater, Eric 385
Chevalier, Maurice 251
Chicago Daily News 16
Christchurch 360, 364, 366, 597
Churchill, Winston 65, 72, 85, 158, 166
circumnavigating the world 431, 438
Citizens Southern Cross Rescue Committee 385, 402, 404, 406
City of Cairo 470
City of Chicago 453
Civil Air Regulations 204
Civil Aviation Branch 183, 194
Cloncurry airstrip 167–9, 517
Coates, Joseph 365, 368
Cobby, Captain Arthur Harry 136, 137, 437, 468
Cobham, Alan 371
‘Codock’, the 565
Coli, Captain François 250–1, 447, 451, 592
Colonial Sugar Refinery (CSR) 56, 63, 142, 182
Columbia 264
Compston, P.H. 407
Cook, Oliver 188
Cook, Prime Minister Joseph 61
Cook Strait 363
Coolidge, President Calvin 262, 264, 352
Coombe, Lance 393
Corboy, Thelma 208–9, 210–11, 214, 218–20, 223, 225, 226, 230–1, 368, 436, 587
Courier (Brisbane) 266, 267
Courier-Mail 504
Covell, George D. 276
Cowra Bridge 191–2
Cross, James 136
Curran, Hugh 259–60
Custance, Fred 48
da Vinci, Leonardo 2
Daily Express 39, 571
Daily Guardian 350, 385, 403–4, 405, 406, 409, 410–12
Daily Mail 21, 28, 35, 36, 38, 39, 147
Daily Telegraph (London) 602
Daily Telegraph (Sydney) 16, 32, 42, 48, 166, 167, 384, 409, 586, 601
Dallas Spirit 277, 308
Darlinghurst Courthouse 416
Darwin 61, 147, 156, 164, 166, 167, 170, 200, 216, 270, 300, 383, 395, 458, 470, 471, 482, 527, 577
de Chair, Sir Dudley 354
de Havilland, Captain Geoffrey 508
de Havilland DH.50 float-and-land plane 371
de Havilland DH.80A Puss Moth 483, 490, 495
de Havilland DH.86A 505
de Havilland DH.88 Comet 508, 522
de Havilland Gipsy engine 500
de Havilland Gipsy Moth 491
Defries, Colin 48
Delagrange, Léon 26, 27
Depression, the 473–4, 496, 573
Derby 196, 205, 388, 389, 401, 405, 503
Detroit Aviation Society 230, 279
Detroit News 230, 279
Detroiter 233, 234, 236, 244, 286