by P Fitzsimons
Deutsches Museum, Munich 22
Diggers Co-operative Aviation Company 186, 187–9, 193
dirigibles 20
Distinguished Flying Cross 264
Dole Air Race 265, 276–7, 278, 287, 288, 302, 307, 308, 315, 506
Dole, James D. 265
Doran, Mildred 277
Douglas, Captain Roger 163
Douglas, Sergeant 414
Dover 37–8
Downing, W.H. ‘Jimmy’ 88
Drysdale River Mission 377, 390, 597
Dubbo 188
Dublin 444
Duke of Atholl 484
Dunn, Senator James Patrick Digger 497
Dunnell, Charles 465
Eadon, Captain Alan 585
Earhart, Amelia 539
earth inductor compass 309
Eastern Air Transport 545
Eaton, Flight Lieutenant Charles 410, 415
Edzard, Cornelius 293
Egypt 76, 86
Egyptian Gazette 77
Eichwaldt, Alvin 277, 308, 315
Eielson, Ben 232–6, 244–6, 279, 312–13, 605
El Encanto 277
Elliott, Lieutenant Milton ‘Skeets’ 181
Ellison, Norman 213, 350, 351
England to Australia flights 298–300, 427–8, 454–9, 469, 489–90, 499–501, 503, 506, 577–83
English Channel crossing 35–8
equator, crossing the 17–18, 75–6, 332
Erwin, William P. 277, 308
Escopette 36, 39, 493
Ethyl Corporation 587
Evans, Gunner ‘Snowy’ 133
Evening News 401
Evening Standard 483
Examiner 173, 462
Eyre, Bill 160
Fairbanks Aeroplane Corporation 233
Faith in Australia 494, 503, 548, 553–4, 564
Farman, Henri 43
Farrall, Hubert 465
Fawcett, Bob 195, 198
Federov, Ivan 251, 601
Ferdinand, Archduke Franz 50, 59
Ferris, Lyle 529
Fielding, Reverend G. Morris 460
Fiji 328, 329, 330, 334–6, 339–43, 524, 526
Fiji Times 532
Fitzmaurice, Captain James C. 431
Florence 495
Flyer 11–12, 14
Flyer II 19
Flyer III 25, 31
flying, early attempts
French developments 20, 25–6
implications 21
writing history of 1–2
‘flying machines’
cellular kites 3–4, 5
joysticks 31
propulsion 4–5, 14, 31
rudders 12
stability 55
Foch, Marshal Ferdinand 480
Fokker, Anthony 44, 55–6, 60, 73–4, 124, 146, 160, 230, 254, 278, 291, 430, 431, 443, 452, 453, 454, 534, 550, 591
Fokker Aviatik Gesellschaft 56, 60
Fokker, Herman 44, 55
Fokker planes 94, 124, 230, 233, 234, 244, 286
Fonck, René 97, 246, 247, 254
Fontaine, Charles 37
Forbes, George 565
14-bis Oiseau de Proie 20, 590
4th Divisional Signal Company 69, 88, 92
4th Light Horse Brigade 75, 76, 86
4th Signal Troop 75
Fox Studios 541
France 60, 65
Fraser, George Henry 163
Fremantle 495
French Army 60, 67
Fysh, Hudson 156, 160–1, 164, 167, 169, 170, 178, 179, 186, 209, 212, 215, 238, 239–40, 288, 411, 437, 440, 441, 471–2, 497, 504, 506, 565, 571, 581, 603, 609
Fysh, Nell 238
Gallipoli 72–3, 75, 76, 77, 80, 81, 82–5
evacuations 85–6
Garlick, John 385, 404
Garros, Roland 66–8, 71–3, 550, 591–2
Gascoyne Transport Company 224–8, 236–7, 240, 243, 352, 388
General Motors 587
Gengoult Smith, Sir Harold 528
Geraldton 194, 196, 214
German Army 60, 480
German High Command 73
German Navy 60
German Supreme Army Command 95–6, 136
Germany 60
Glasgow, Elsie 465
gliders 9–10, 12
Hawk, the 10
Golden Bear 462
Golden Eagle 277
Golden Gate Bridge 536
Gorham, George 157, 161
Göring, Oberleutnant Hermann 135, 606
Great Pacific Airways Ltd 496
Great War see World War I
Greenwich Mean Time 273
Grenfell 487
Grieve, Navy Lieutenant Commander Kenneth Mackenzie 147–52, 246, 448, 562
Grosvenor House 522, 527, 528
Guardian (Perth) 241, 266
Guild of Air Pilots and Navigators 484
Gunn, John 210
Guynemer, Georges 106
Haarlem 44, 55
Hammond, J.H. 417–21
Hancock, Bertram 304
Hancock, Captain G. Allan 302–6, 310, 315, 348, 352, 454, 588
Hargrave, Geoffrey 9, 22, 62, 72–3, 74–5
Hargrave, Hilda 9
Hargrave, Lawrence 2–5, 9, 12, 15, 20, 22, 31, 32, 43, 45, 49–50, 61–2, 75, 356–7, 609
Hargrave, Margaret (daughter) 22
Hargrave, Margaret (wife) 22
Hargrave, Nellie 9, 22
Harmondsworth aerodrome 489
Harper, Harry 21, 35, 36
Harper, Locke T. 285, 293
Hart, E.J. 355, 421
Hawaii 324–6, 330, 331
Hawke, Bob 609–10
Hawker de Havilland 593
Hawker Demon biplanes 567
Hawker, Harry 47, 54–5, 78–9, 94–5, 147–52, 160, 190, 246, 448, 543, 552, 562, 583, 593
Hawker, Muriel (née Peaty) 78–9, 94, 148, 149, 150, 190, 543, 593–4
H.G. Hawker: Airman—His Life and Work 593
Hazlitt, Jack 212
Heath, Bertie 385, 403
Hemsworth, Godfrey 546
Henri Farman III 43
Herald (Melbourne) 356, 384, 385, 409, 418, 508, 554
Hesshaimer, Brigitte 608
Hesshaimer, Marietta 608
H.G. Hawker Engineering 160, 593
Hill, Flight Lieutenant Cedric 456, 457–8
Hilliard, Arthur 242, 358, 402, 408
Hilliard, Bon 242–3, 267, 272, 296, 301, 393, 395, 399, 404, 408, 417, 429, 596
Hilversum 257
Hinkler, Bert 189–90, 298–301, 349, 369, 371, 372, 418, 456, 458, 483–4, 485, 489–90, 492, 495, 528, 583, 594, 609
Hinkler, Frances 189, 594
Hinkler, John 189
Hinkler, Nancy 298–9, 300, 483–4, 490, 495, 594
Hitchcock, Henry ‘Bobby’ 240, 241, 242, 269, 271–2, 358, 370–1, 386, 393, 394–9, 402, 403, 404, 405, 408, 409, 410–11, 413, 414, 416, 420, 425, 426, 429, 439, 475, 542, 589
Hitler, Adolf 537, 606
Hodder, Jack 585
Holden, Captain Leslie Herbert 385, 394, 400, 402, 420, 589
Holder and Stroud 518
Hollywood 541
Holt, Lieutenant Colonel Felton Vesey 217
Honolulu 541, 543
Honolulu Advertiser 328
Hood 216
Hood, Captain George 294, 360, 583, 592
Hood, Clyde 465
Hood, Laura 294, 364, 592
Hoover, President Herbert 452
Hope-Jones, Kenneth 593
Hordern, Lebbeus 220, 228, 229, 356
Hore-Ruthven, Sir Alexander 440
Hotchkiss machine gun 66, 71
Houdini, Harry 40, 45–9, 599–600
Howard, John 241
Howell, Cedric E. 163
Hudson River 610
Hue, Jules 68
Huffman, Torrence 19
Hughes, Geoffrey 287, 409, 420
Hughes, Prime Minister Billy 143–4, 151–2, 156, 166
, 183, 196–7, 199, 269
Huntingdon, SS 437
Hurley, Frank 114
Hutchinson, Palmer 233–4
Hutson, Sir Eyre 337
Immelmann, Max 97
‘Immelmann turn’ 191
Imperial Airways 430, 441, 464, 470, 472, 473, 497, 504, 545, 566, 571, 581
Ince, Thomas Harper 173–4
India 433, 579
Indian Corps 91
Ingleburn Army Camp 68–9, 83
International Commission on Air Navigation (ICAN) 507, 509, 511, 512, 516
Interstate Flying Services 248, 249–50, 258, 369
Ireland 444
Isaacs, Sir Isaac 488
Jagdstaffeln 96
James, Rowland 581
Jeffries, Dr John 253
Johnson, Amy 484, 508, 522, 531
Johnston, Edgar 504, 509, 516, 543, 571
Jones, E.J. 259
Jones, L.J.R. ‘Jack’ 48
joyrides 486–7, 489, 493 see also barnstorming
Jubilee Flight 547–64
Kaiser Wilhelm II 64
Kalumburu 597
Kangaroo plane 144–5
Kangaroos rugby league team 501
Karachi 430, 457, 578
Katherine 395
Kathleen 469
Kaufman, Jack 539–40
Kay, Sergeant Tommy D. 162–3
Kennedy, Alexander 212–13, 406
Kensington Racing Club 155
King Edward VII 50
King George V 50, 53, 125, 141, 148, 152, 166, 186, 190, 263z, 264, 313, 433, 459, 488, 523, 537, 547
Kingsford, Arthur 29
Kingsford, Catherine see Kingsford Smith, Catherine
Kingsford, Phil 221
Kingsford-Smith Air Service Ltd 496, 512, 545
Kingsford Smith, Beris (niece) see Stannage, Beris
Kingsford Smith, Catherine (mother) (née Kingsford) 6–8, 17, 18, 19, 30, 51, 62–3, 69–70, 85, 98, 123, 126–7, 146, 184, 200–1, 206, 211–12, 312, 323, 326, 338, 354, 386, 400, 452, 481, 501, 503, 548, 549, 569, 570, 578, 583, 587
Kingsford Smith, Charles Arthur (son) 489, 500, 502, 506, 510, 525, 538, 544, 565, 569, 570, 582, 583, 587, 588, 597
Kingsford Smith, Sir Charles Edward (‘Chilla’, ‘Smithy’)
application to Royal Flying Corps 92
apprenticeship 56
arrest in Turkey 479
barnstorming 176–7, 181–2
birth 6
childhood 7–28
crashes 152–4
death 584
divorce 368
education 50–3, 56
family 6
first marriage 218
first solo flight 103–4
flying, feelings about 102–3
Gallipoli campaign and 82–6
Hollywood, in 180–1
illness 455, 477, 500–3, 573
knighthood 488
medical leave 126–9
mental health 503, 538–9
Military Cross 123, 125–6
motorbike passion 58, 69
move to Canada 17
New Guard and 474
paperwork and 511–17, 574
personality 57, 68–9
pilot training 92–4, 97–8
poem to the Southern Cross 568
posting to No. 23 Squadron 107–8
promotion to corporal 87
return to Australia from Canada 30, 43
role as flying instructor 136, 142
second marriage 436, 461
‘Smithy’, as 358
stunt flying 180
suits against 358
swimming incident Bondi Beach 23–4
theories of death 585–6
wounding 122–3
Kingsford Smith, Elfreda (sister-in-law) 184
Kingsford Smith, Elsie (sister-in-law) 173
Kingsford Smith, Elsie (sister) see Pike, Elsie
Kingsford Smith, Eric (brother) 6, 19, 62, 224, 460, 582
Kingsford Smith, Harold (brother) 6, 18, 29, 159–60, 164, 172, 173, 174, 275–6, 315, 538, 542
Kingsford Smith, Lady Mary (née Powell) 432–4, 435–7, 438, 439, 445, 451, 452, 455, 461–2, 475, 478, 485, 488, 500, 502, 506, 507, 510, 525, 538, 544, 548, 563–4, 565, 566, 567, 570, 576, 577, 578, 580, 582, 583, 584, 587
Kingsford Smith, Leofric (brother) 6, 19, 129, 183, 184, 206–7, 293, 386, 401, 460
Kingsford Smith-Maddocks Aeros Ltd 142
Kingsford Smith, Thelma see Corboy, Thelma
Kingsford Smith, Wilfrid (brother) 6, 19, 164, 491, 580
Kingsford Smith, William (father) 6–7, 17, 18, 29–30, 63, 98, 184, 311–12, 323, 338, 385–6, 460–1
Kingsford Smith, Winifred (sister) 6, 18, 57, 224
Kipling, Rudyard ‘The Absent-Minded Beggar’ 8
Kitty Hawk 11–12, 15
Kjupun 582–3
Knight, Harry 265
Knight, Ivan 294
Koepang 470–1
Köhl, Hermann 431
Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (KLM) 441, 443, 453, 482, 523, 531, 581, 595
Kookaburra 370, 393, 394, 396, 398, 402, 406–7, 410, 412, 413–15, 425, 439, 596, 604
Kuranda (Kingsford Smith home) 184, 220, 323, 338, 385, 400, 401, 436, 460, 478, 481, 549, 570, 578, 582
La Perouse Receiving Centre, Sydney 323, 400, 552
Lady Southern Cross 515, 518–19, 524–7, 532–6, 569, 572, 575, 576, 577–80
wreckage 585
Lang, Jack 268, 270, 280, 474
Lanphier, Major Tom 234
Latham, John 337–8
Lawrence, Colonel T.E. 91, 138
Lay, Damien 585–6
Le Figaro 28, 39, 42
Le Hargrave 46
Le Matin 29, 41
Lea, Reverend Canon Howard 357
Leblanc, Alfred 35, 37
Lee, Lionel 185–6
Levasseur PL-8 251
Levine, Charles A. 264
Liberty 572
Lilienthal, Otto 9–10, 11
Lilja, Harold William 426
Lindbergh, Anne 486, 608
Lindbergh, Charles 237–8, 246–8, 251–65, 276, 278, 281–2, 298, 349, 369, 374, 445, 450, 452–3, 483, 486, 607–9
Lindbergh, Evangeline 247–8, 264
Lindbergh kidnapping 486
Litchfield, Hal 272, 274, 297, 359, 363, 364, 366, 373–4, 382, 388, 392, 394, 411, 422, 424, 427, 597
Littlejohn, George 540
Lloyd’s of London 255, 260
Lockheed Altair 510, 512, 514
Lockheed Sirius 510
Lockheed Vega 279
Locklear, Lieutenant Ormer 181, 583
L’oiseau blanc 251
London 39–40, 459, 478, 479, 572 end of World War I celebrations 141
London to Melbourne race 506
Longreach aerodrome 238
Loraine, Captain Eustace B. 53
Los Angeles 264
Los Angeles Times 542
Love, Nigel 155, 170, 180, 215
Lympne 499, 578
Lynch-Blosse, P.W. 437
Lyon, Captain Harry 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 313–14, 316, 317, 318–53, 356, 357, 359, 525, 589
Lyons, Prime Minister Joseph 502, 505, 543, 554
McAdoo, Senator William Gibbs 537
McCudden, Jimmy 97
McDonald, Reverend D.P. 429
Macfarlane, Dan 465, 466
McGinness, Paul ‘Ginty’ 156, 160–1, 167, 168–70, 178, 179, 186, 199, 209–10, 212, 288, 506, 603, 609
McIntosh, Lieutenant John C. 177
McKay, Cecil Newton 409
Mackay, Keith 228–9
Mackellar, Dorothy 225
McKenna, Maurice 211, 221
Mackersey, Ian 336, 461, 578, 585, 586, 587
McLean, Ivy 213
McMaster, Fergus 168–70, 178–9, 187, 197, 199, 209, 440, 471, 472, 504–5, 603, 609
McNeil, Mrs James 445
McWilliams, Ross
597
McWilliams, Tom 359, 364, 366, 374, 379, 380, 382, 383, 388, 389, 392, 394, 411, 422, 427, 428, 491, 597
Maddocks, Cyril 142, 145, 153, 155, 163
Maidment, Cecil C. ‘Doc’ 311, 360, 444
Makura, SS 291, 426
Malaya 481
Maliko, SS 322
Maloney 581
Manncock, Mick 97
Manoa, SS 322
Marble Bar 210, 218
Margules, Julian 465
Mariposa, SS 512
Marlborough Aero Club 366
Marshall, Gloria 241, 242
Marshall, John 241
Martin, Ray 588
Mary, SS 149
Mascot airport 155, 171, 188, 215, 248, 267, 268, 300, 353, 437, 496, 501, 513, 519, 553, 563
Mata Hari 116
Matthews, Captain George C. ‘Skip’ 162–3, 455
Mauser rifle 71
May, Lieutenant Wilfrid ‘Wop’ 130–2
Meentheena 210–11, 214, 218–19, 221, 225
Melbourne 45, 357, 422, 437, 465, 467, 478, 502, 527, 577, 580
Melbourne Punch 49
Melrose, Jimmy 579–80, 581, 585, 589
Melville HMT, 82
Memphis, USS 262, 264
Mildenhall aerodrome 515, 518, 522, 528
Military Cross 123, 125–6
Miss Doran 277
Miss Hollydale 276
Miss Liverpool 1 600
Miss Southern Cross 499–501
Moffett 176–7, 181–2
Moll, Captain Jan Johannes 523
Mollison, Amy see Johnson, Amy
Mollison, James 437, 462, 475, 478, 508, 522, 531
Molokai Island 324
Monash, General John 115
Moncrieff, Dorothy 294, 295, 364, 592
Moncrieff, Lieutenant John 294, 360, 366, 583, 592
Monro, Major General Sir Charles 85
Monterey, SS 544
Moody, Percy ‘Skipper’ 98, 406
Moreton, Sapper 21
Morrow, Dwight 450
Mullins, Captain 532
Mundabullangana Station 228
Murchison House station 198
Murray, Constable George 425
Murray, Paddy Lee 193
Musée National des Art et Metiers Techniques 591
Mussolini, Benito 42, 495, 537
Myanmar see Burma
Myer, Sidney 282–3, 288, 508, 510
Myers, Fred 420
Nasht, Simon Last Explorer 605
navigation skills training 272–4
Neutral Bay, Sydney 30, 513
New Caledonia 525, 526
New Guard, the 474
New Guinea 143, 240, 242, 248
New Plymouth and New Zealand Aero Club 491
New South Wales Aero Club 287, 409
New York 448, 449–53, 572
New York Stock Exchange 434, 473
New York Times 261, 326, 374, 445, 537