Amazing Australians in their flying machines / Prue & Kerry Mason ; illustrations by Tom Jellett.
Publisher: Newtown, N.S.W. : Walker Books Australia, 2017Publisher: ©2017Description: 30 pages : colour illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781922244635
- 1922244635
- 629.13
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Non Fiction | Bayview Library | 629.13092 MAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | R00371JSLGB | ||
Non Fiction | Dee Why Library | 629.13 MAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | R01961FSLGD |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
15 April 1851: Dr William Bland -- 12 November 1894: Lawrence Hargrave -- 5 December 1909: George Taylor -- 12 November 1914: Richard Williams -- 10 December 1919: Ross Macpherson Smith -- 12 April 1921: Bert Hinkler -- 5 December 1921: Norman Brearley -- 17 May 1928: John Flynn -- 1932: Nancy Bird -- 7 November 1935: Charles Kingsford Smith -- Australian Aviation Today -- Authors' Note.
Imagine what it was like to travel to far-off places before there were aeroplanes. For early 20th-century Australian, it could take days, weeks, or months just to get where they were going. Amazing Australians in Their Flying Machines tells the stories of ten brave Australians, including the youngest licensed woman pilot Nancy Bird, who took to the skies and changed the face of aviation forever.
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