Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter One: SETTING THE SCENE - Early Days; Government Policy; The RAF and Cairo to Baghdad; Conception of Imperial Airways; Birth of Imperial Airways; Cobham's Empire Air-Route Surveys; To India; Forging to the Edge of Empire
• Chapter Two: THE RAISON D'ETRE - Before the Empire Airmail Scheme; Empire Airmail Scheme; The First Decade; Construction of the Short Bros Empire 'Boat; Early Flights
• Chapter Three: CHANGE AND PROGRESS - Changes Afoot; Routes, Surveys and Schedules; Early Days
• Chapter Four: A WORTHY AIRLINE - The Losses of 1937; The North Atlantic; Unrest - Imperial Difficulties; The Empire Airmail Scheme Matures; Reorganization; Home Base; Maintenance
• Chapter Five: ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENTS - Developments Elsewhere; Maia and Mercury, 'The Pick-A-Back 'Plane'
• Chapter Six: EASTWARD AND SOUTHWARD - The Middle East and India; Cambria Force-Lands; Corsair; The Loss of Challenger
• Chapter Seven: BERMUDA AND THE ATLANTIC CONQUERED - Bermuda; Air-to-Air Refuelling and the Atlantic
• Chapter Eight: TO AUSTRALIA AND BEYOND - Qantas
• Chapter Nine: REITH
• Chapter Ten: TASMAN EMPIRE AIRWAYS LIMITED (TEAL) -
• Chapter Eleven: IMPERIAL AT WAR - Engand 1940; Cordelia, Clio and the 'G' Boats; The Horseshoe Route; The Poole-Foynes Shuttle
• Chapter Twelve: THE FAR EAST AND AUSTRALIA -
• Chapter Thirteen: NEW ZEALAND AT WAR
• Chapter Fourteen: END OF EMPIRE
• Bibliography
• Appendices:
• 1. The Imperial Airways/BOAC S.23 Flying-Boats
• 2. The QANTAS Empire Airways S.23 Flying-Boats
• 3. The Imperial Airways/BOAC S.30 Flying-Boats
• 4. The Tasman Empire Airways Limited Flying-Boats
• 5. Short S.33 Flying-Boats
• 6. Short Composite S.20 Maia and S.21 Mercury
• 7. Short S.26 'G-class' Flying-Boats
• 8. Maps - Africa; Europe and Mediterranean; The North Atlantic; The Indian Ocean; South-east Asia, Australasia and Oceania