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Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men

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  McMullin, Ross, Pompey, Elliott, Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2002.

  McNally, Ward, Smithy: The Kingsford-Smith Story, Robert Hale, London, 1966.

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  Mollison, Jim, Playboy of the Air, Michael Joseph, London, 1937.

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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

 

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