Flying the Southern Cross: Aviators Charles Ulm and Charles Kingsford SmithNational 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 |
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