Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• Author's Note
• 1. The Wright Brothers - Birth of Powered Flight
• 2. Bleriot - First to Fly the English Channel
• 3. Warneford - Destroying the First Zeppelin
• 4. Albert Ball - The Earliest Air Race
• 5. Leefe Robinson - Defeat of the Zeppelins
• 6. Avery Bishop - Shot down Seventy-two Planes
• 7. Alan Arnett McLeod - Wing-Walking to Live
• 8. William Barker - Survived Odds of 50 to 1
• 9. Hawker and Grieve - Attempt on the Atlantic
• 10. Commander Read - Across the Atlantic in Stages
• 11. Alcock and Brown - The Atlantic Non-stop
• 12. Alan Cobham - Epic Flight to Cape Town
• 13. Alan Cobham - To Australia by Seaplane
• 14. Byrd and Bennett - To the North and South Poles
• 15. Charles Lindbergh - First Atlantic Solo
• 16. Charles Kingsford Smith - Conquering the Pacific
• 17. Amy Johnson - Solo to Australia
• 18. Jim Mollison - Greatest Solo ever Flown
• 19. Amelia Earhart - First Woman Across the Atlantic
• 20. Colonel Blacker - Looking Down on Everest
• 21. Wiley Post - Around the World in Eight Days
• 22. Scott and Black - The Melbourne Air Race
• 23. Jean Batten - Four Famous Flights
• 24. Beryl Markham - Crash Landing in Novia Scotia
• 25. Scott and Guthrie - The Johannesburg Air Race
• 26. Sydney Camm - Birth of the Hurricane
• 27. R.J. Mitchell - Birth of the Spitfire
• 28. Douglas Bader - The Legless Air Ace
• 29. Butch O'Hare - Saving An Aircraft Carrier
• 30. Guy Gibson - The Dam Busters' Raid
• 31. Denton Scott - Gunner over Lorient
• 32. Leonard Cheshire - Pathfinder Supreme
• 33. George Bush - The Flying Casket
• 34. The Atomic Bombs
• 35. The Jet Age
• 36. The Firebirds and Red Arrows
• 37. Test-Flying the VC10
• 38. The Concorde is Born
• 39. Flight 93 - 11 September 2001
• Index