"To the Ends of the Air"
You should try this for size – "To the Ends of the Air" Gp Capt GE Livock DFC, AFC. published in 1973. Still available to purchase.
Start in 1914 as a wartime naval aviator lifted from school at age 17 – operational six months later up and down the east coast etc on everything that flew off water. Followed by Russian operations in 1919. Continues with his flying boat exploits to the Far East and Australia in the twenties and early thirties where the book ends. In WW2 he was CO of the flying boat bases at Oban and Kalafrana then in HQ Coastal Command.
LFH