Flying the Southern Cross: Aviators Charles Ulm and Charles Kingsford Smith

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National Library Australia, 2012 - Всего страниц: 212
Australian aviators Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm made the first trans-Pacific flight in 1928 in an aircraft constructed largely of timber and fabric, the Southern Cross. With Americans Jim Warner as radio operator and Harry Lyon as navigator, they made the trip from Oakland, California, in nine days, facing electrical storms, torrential rain, equipment breakdowns, fuel shortages and the ever-present fear of engine failure. In Flying the Southern Cross, Michael Molkentin uses logbook entries, the airmen's memoirs, contemporary newspaper accounts and official documents, supplemented by a range of historic photographs, to give a gripping account of that epoch-making flight and its aftermath. He takes readers into the Southern Cross, a place where courage, skill and endurance could, with luck, outweigh the fearful risks of a long air journey. Above all, he brings to life the airmen themselves, four very different men who made aviation history.
 

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Over Golden Gate 1100 feet
16
Our last sight of land for 24 hours
34
Perfectly glorious sunset
48
Mauna Kea sighted
62
On the way and happy
78
A rotten night ahead
94
Looks clear ahead
110
Worst 2½ hours on whole flight
128
On our way home
142
The rest is easy
164
TransPacific flight statistics
188
Index
204
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