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HEROIC FLIGHTS

Written by John Frayn Turner
Published by Leo Cooper; Pen & Sword Books in 2003
ISBN: 0850529700

£ 12.00 Photo of HEROIC FLIGHTS- Stock Number: 2134091

HEROIC FLIGHTS
Written by John Frayn Turner.
Stock no. 2134091
1st. 2003. Hardback. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The First 100 Years of Aviation. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0850529700. Wrapper spine is very slightly faded.

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Front cover

Cover of HEROIC FLIGHTS by John Frayn Turner

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