"Wings in the West - A History of the First Fifty Years of the Royal Aero Club of Western Australia" - Giles, R. O.
Rob Giles was a member of the club in the early thirties. He became an instructor, served in the RAAF and after the war was a manager with MMA following which he became state manager for TAA.
His book is highly readable as it gives a colourful account of the varying fortunes of a club that played an important role in civil aviation in Australia.
He sets each period in the more general context of the times. The picture he paints of Maylands in the thirties is graphic. At times it was a struggle to stay afloat. (Not a pun on the Swan that sometimes burst it's banks and flooded the aerodrome.) The clubs depended heavily on subsidies and other disbursements from the federal government . Some of it's DH Moths were acquired from the Civil Aviation Branch of the Defence Department that preceded DCA .
An important aspect of club life was it's thriving social side, with dinners and picnics and fly aways even in it's earliest days.
There is not a comparable history published about either Royal Vic or it's Bankstown, Archerfield or Parafield counterparts. Rob Giles earned high accolades for the thoroughness and liveliness of his book.