Good aircraft books- what are you reading?
Co incidentally yesterday I started unpacking my deceased Dads books that have been in boxes in my roof for the last 15 years for transfer into my new Billy book shelves. First book out was a shabby version Flying Doctor, 1947 Edition. Noted chapter X1 is titled "the uncivil aviation department" Looking forward to the read along with "The Sea Shall Not Have Them".
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It does not seem to come up on Amazon Aust as a Kindle book.
It is there on Amazon US but we in Aus seem not to be able to get it from there.
https://www.amazon.com/Sky-Beyond-Go.../dp/B01N5BQHRR
It is there on Amazon US but we in Aus seem not to be able to get it from there.
https://www.amazon.com/Sky-Beyond-Go.../dp/B01N5BQHRR
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.Ten Journeys to Cameron's Farm. I have just read this latest enthralling story by Cameron Hazlehurst about the 1940 Hudson crash at Canberra that wiped out several members of Bob Menzies Cabinet. It is a long book of 600 pages plus. In later years I knew many of the RAAF names.mentioned including Group Captain 'Paddy' Heffernan for one. . In fact I did my very first flight which was in a Lockeed Hudson VH-SMK a freighter of the Sydney Morning Herald Flying Services at Camden NSW in 1948. Captain Harry Purvis AFC was the pilot and it was a 30 minute test flight after an engine change. I was 16 then and sat on the freighter floor. No seats. No belts. Just hung on to the nearest protuberance. Incredibly noisy with no sound-proofing. Hence my interest in Cameron Hazlehurst book featuring Hudson facts
The book is an E-Version and free to download. See link
https://www.google.com/search?source...sclient=psy-ab
The book is an E-Version and free to download. See link
https://www.google.com/search?source...sclient=psy-ab
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When I clicked on that link it took me to the page, then I went to where it says Continue shopping on the Kindle Store at Amazon.com.au which will take you to another page. Scroll down & the book is 6th from the top.
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Two by Jim Eames:
”The Searchers” which details the efforts by the RAAF to locate missing aircrew in the Southwest Pacific after WW2. “A thousand Australian airman remained unaccounted for at war’s end in 1945”.
”Courage in the Skies: The untold story of Qantas, it’s brave men and women and their extraordinary role in World War II”.
”The Searchers” which details the efforts by the RAAF to locate missing aircrew in the Southwest Pacific after WW2. “A thousand Australian airman remained unaccounted for at war’s end in 1945”.
”Courage in the Skies: The untold story of Qantas, it’s brave men and women and their extraordinary role in World War II”.
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I could only find it in paperback.
https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downl...1/pdf/book.pdf
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