Gas Bag, let me suggest some reading for you.
For starters I suggest you look up the biographies and histories of:
Charles Lindberg
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
Sir Reginald Ansett
Sir Robert Law-Smith
Frank Ball
Sir Frederick Scherger
Horrie Miller
Bobby Gibbes
Sir Dennis Buchanan
Sydney Hugh de Kantzow
Roy Clinton Farrell
That'll do for a start but there are many more once you've read and learned something from that lot.
tipsy.
