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Qantas Rising
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Qantas Rising
An informal account of the two young ex-servicemen, Hudson Fysh and P.J. McGuiness, who founded one of the world's major airlines.
Hudson Fysh
The extraordinary life of the Gallipoli veteran and WWI Flying Corp gunner who founded Qantas and gave Australia its wings By the critically acclaimed author of bestselling biographies of John Monash, Banjo Paterson, Joseph Banks, Lachlan Macquarie and Henry Lawson, this is a fascinating, lively and thoroughly researched portrait of a modest, resolute family man with a steady hand during turbulence, a man who guided Australia's national airline from its humble beginnings through the dark days of the Great Depression, the perilous years of World War II, when the airline flew dangerous missions for the Allies, and into the great boom in international tourism that followed with the jet age. Hud...
Taming the North
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Over Empires and Oceans
This a story of pioneers, intrepid aviators, adventurers, tycoons and innovators. It is also a story of dedication and determination, for despite fixed-wing aircraft proving their value over the battlefields of the Western Front during the First World War, convincing governments and public alike that they had a role in peacetime proved far more challenging. The Americans, as inventors of heavier-than-air powered flight, had briefly courted with a passenger airline across Tampa Bay in 1914, yet it took a further nine years for mail to be flown coast-to-coast. In 1919 a British company made the first international scheduled flight between London and Paris, but the continuation of regular servi...
The Rotarian
Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
Round About the Earth
"In this first full history of around-the-world travel, Joyce E. Chaplin brilliantly tells the story of circumnavigation."-- Publisher's description
Qantas at War
Beretning om det australske flyselskab Qantas' aktiviteter i årene 1934-45, herunder navnlig udfordringerne under 2. verdenskrig
Outback Achiever
Legendary Dr Fred McKay was successor to Flynn of the Inland. From a humble beginning on a small sugar can farm in North Queensland, his life work became as big as the country itself. When John Flynn died in 1951 Fred McKay succeeded him.
Qantas Rising
Facsimile of a book first published in 1965, one in a series of five volumes of the Qantas Foundation Memorial book set. Depicts the early years of Qantas airlines. The author describes his years in the Light Horse and the Flying Corps during WWI as well as discussing the establishment and expansion of the airline, the formation of the flying school, the beginnings of the Aerial Medical Service and the fight to win the contract to start the Australia to England air service. Includes an index. The author is a founder and former chairman of the airline.
