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Evening Standard
483
Examiner
173, 462
Eyre, Bill 160
Fairbanks Aeroplane Corporation 233
Faith in Australia
494, 503, 548, 553–4, 564
Farman, Henri 43
Farrall, Hubert 465
Fawcett, Bob 195, 198
Federov, Ivan 251, 601
Ferdinand, Archduke Franz 50, 59
Ferris, Lyle 529
Fielding, Reverend G. Morris 460
Fiji 328, 329, 330, 334–6, 339–43, 524, 526
Fiji Times
532
Fitzmaurice, Captain James C. 431
Florence 495
Flyer
11–12, 14
Flyer II
19
Flyer III
25, 31
flying, early attempts
French developments 20, 25–6
implications 21
writing history of 1–2
‘flying machines’
cellular kites 3–4, 5
joysticks 31
propulsion 4–5, 14, 31
rudders 12
stability 55
Foch, Marshal Ferdinand 480
Fokker, Anthony 44, 55–6, 60, 73–4, 124, 146, 160, 230, 254, 278, 291, 430, 431, 443, 452, 453, 454, 534, 550, 591
Fokker Aviatik Gesellschaft 56, 60
Fokker, Herman 44, 55
Fokker planes 94, 124, 230, 233, 234, 244, 286
Fonck, René 97, 246, 247, 254
Fontaine, Charles 37
Forbes, George 565
14-bis Oiseau de Proie
20, 590
4th Divisional Signal Company 69, 88, 92
4th Light Horse Brigade 75, 76, 86
4th Signal Troop 75
Fox Studios 541
France 60, 65
Fraser, George Henry 163
Fremantle 495
French Army 60, 67
Fysh, Hudson 156, 160–1, 164, 167, 169, 170, 178, 179, 186, 209, 212, 215, 238, 239–40, 288, 411, 437, 440, 441, 471–2, 497, 504, 506, 565, 571, 581, 603, 609
Fysh, Nell 238
Gallipoli 72–3, 75, 76, 77, 80, 81, 82–5
evacuations 85–6
Garlick, John 385, 404
Garros, Roland 66–8, 71–3, 550, 591–2
Gascoyne Transport Company 224–8, 236–7, 240, 243, 352, 388
General Motors 587
Gengoult Smith, Sir Harold 528
Geraldton 194, 196, 214
German Army 60, 480
German High Command 73
German Navy 60
German Supreme Army Command 95–6, 136
Germany 60
Glasgow, Elsie 465
gliders 9–10, 12
Hawk
, the 10
Golden Bear
462
Golden Eagle
277
Golden Gate Bridge 536
Gorham, George 157, 161
Göring,
Oberleutnant
Hermann 135, 606
Great Pacific Airways Ltd 496
Great War
see
World War I
Greenwich Mean Time 273
Grenfell 487
Grieve, Navy Lieutenant Commander Kenneth Mackenzie 147–52, 246, 448, 562
Grosvenor House
522, 527, 528
Guardian
(Perth) 241, 266
Guild of Air Pilots and Navigators 484
Gunn, John 210
Guynemer, Georges 106
Haarlem 44, 55
Hammond, J.H. 417–21
Hancock, Bertram 304
Hancock, Captain G. Allan 302–6, 310, 315, 348, 352, 454, 588
Hargrave, Geoffrey 9, 22, 62, 72–3, 74–5
Hargrave, Hilda 9
Hargrave, Lawrence 2–5, 9, 12, 15, 20, 22, 31, 32, 43, 45, 49–50, 61–2, 75, 356–7, 609
Hargrave, Margaret (daughter) 22
Hargrave, Margaret (wife) 22
Hargrave, Nellie 9, 22
Harmondsworth aerodrome 489
Harper, Harry 21, 35, 36
Harper, Locke T. 285, 293
Hart, E.J. 355, 421
Hawaii 324–6, 330, 331
Hawke, Bob 609–10
Hawker de Havilland 593
Hawker Demon biplanes 567
Hawker, Harry 47, 54–5, 78–9, 94–5, 147–52, 160, 190, 246, 448, 543, 552, 562, 583, 593
Hawker, Muriel (née Peaty) 78–9, 94, 148, 149, 150, 190, 543, 593–4
H.G. Hawker: Airman—His Life and Work
593
Hazlitt, Jack 212
Heath, Bertie 385, 403
Hemsworth, Godfrey 546
Henri Farman III
43
Herald
(Melbourne) 356, 384, 385, 409, 418, 508, 554
Hesshaimer, Brigitte 608
Hesshaimer, Marietta 608
H.G. Hawker Engineering 160, 593
Hill, Flight Lieutenant Cedric 456, 457–8
Hilliard, Arthur 242, 358, 402, 408
Hilliard, Bon 242–3, 267, 272, 296, 301, 393, 395, 399, 404, 408, 417, 429, 596
Hilversum
257
Hinkler, Bert 189–90, 298–301, 349, 369, 371, 372, 418, 456, 458, 483–4, 485, 489–90, 492, 495, 528, 583, 594, 609
Hinkler, Frances 189, 594
Hinkler, John 189
Hinkler, Nancy 298–9, 300, 483–4, 490, 495, 594
Hitchcock, Henry ‘Bobby’ 240, 241, 242, 269, 271–2, 358, 370–1, 386, 393, 394–9, 402, 403, 404, 405, 408, 409, 410–11, 413, 414, 416, 420, 425, 426, 429, 439, 475, 542, 589
Hitler, Adolf 537, 606
Hodder, Jack 585
Holden, Captain Leslie Herbert 385, 394, 400, 402, 420, 589
Holder and Stroud 518
Hollywood 541
Holt, Lieutenant Colonel Felton Vesey 217
Honolulu 541, 543
Honolulu Advertiser
328
Hood
216
Hood, Captain George 294, 360, 583, 592
Hood, Clyde 465
Hood, Laura 294, 364, 592
Hoover, President Herbert 452
Hope-Jones, Kenneth 593
Hordern, Lebbeus 220, 228, 229, 356
Hore-Ruthven, Sir Alexander 440
Hotchkiss machine gun 66, 71
Houdini, Harry 40, 45–9, 599–600
Howard, John 241
Howell, Cedric E. 163
Hudson River 610
Hue, Jules 68
Huffman, Torrence 19
Hughes, Geoffrey 287, 409, 420
Hughes, Prime Minister Billy 143–4, 151–2, 156, 166, 183, 196–7, 199, 269
Huntingdon
, SS 437
Hurley, Frank 114
Hutchinson, Palmer 233–4
Hutson, Sir Eyre 337
Immelmann, Max 97
‘Immelmann turn’ 191
Imperial Airways 430, 441, 464, 470, 472, 473, 497, 504, 545, 566, 571, 581
Ince, Thomas Harper 173–4
India 433, 579
Indian Corps 91
Ingleburn Army Camp 68–9, 83
International Commission on Air Navigation (ICAN) 507, 509, 511, 512, 516
Interstate Flying Services 248, 249–50, 258, 369
Ireland 444
Isaacs, Sir Isaac 488
Jagdstaffeln
96
James, Rowland 581
Jeffries, Dr John 253
Johnson, Amy 484, 508, 522, 531
Johnston, Edgar 504, 509, 516, 543, 571
Jones, E.J. 259
Jones, L.J.R. ‘Jack’ 48
joyrides 486–7, 489, 493
see also
barnstorming
Jubilee Flight 547–64
Kaiser Wilhelm II 64
Kalumburu 597
Kangaroo plane 144–5
Kangaroos rugby league team 501
Karachi 430, 457, 578
Katherine 395
Kathleen
469
Kaufman, Jack 539–40
Kay, Sergeant Tommy D. 162–3
Kennedy, Alexander 212–13, 406
Kensington Racing Club 155
King Edward VII 50
King George V 50, 53, 125, 141, 148, 152, 166, 186, 190, 263z, 264, 313, 433, 459, 488, 523, 537, 547
Kingsford, Arthur 29
Kingsford, Catherine
see
Kingsford Smith, Catherine
Kingsford, Phil 221
Kingsford-Smith Air Service Ltd 496, 512, 545
Kingsford Smith, Beris (niece)
see
Stannage, Beris
Kingsford Smith, Catherine (mother) (née Kingsford) 6–8, 17, 18, 19, 30, 51, 62–3, 69–70, 85, 98, 123, 126–7, 146, 184, 200–1, 206, 211–12, 312, 323, 326, 338, 354, 386, 400, 452, 481, 501, 503, 548, 549, 569, 570, 578, 583, 587
Kingsford Smith, Charles Arthur (son) 489, 500, 502, 506, 510, 525, 538, 544, 565, 569, 570, 582, 583, 587, 588, 597
Kingsford Smith, Sir Charles Edward (‘Chilla’, ‘Smithy’)
application to Royal Flying Corps 92
apprenticeship 56
arrest in Turkey 479
barnstorming 176–7, 181–2
birth 6
childhood 7–28
crashes 152–4
death 584
divorce 368
education 50–3, 56
family 6
first marriage 218
first solo flight 103–4
flying, feelings about 102–3
Gallipoli campaign and 82–6
Hollywood, in 180–1
illness 455, 477, 500–3, 573
knighthood 488
medical leave 126–9
mental health 503, 538–9
Military Cross 123, 125–6
motorbike passion 58, 69
move to Canada 17
New Guard and 474
paperwork and 511–17, 574
personality 57, 68–9
pilot training 92–4, 97–8
poem to the
Southern Cross
568
posting to No. 23 Squadron 107–8
promotion to corporal 87
return to Australia from Canada 30, 43
role as flying instructor 136, 142
second marriage 436, 461
‘Smithy’, as 358
stunt flying 180
suits against 358
swimming incident Bondi Beach 23–4
theories of death 585–6
wounding 122–3
Kingsford Smith, Elfreda (sister-in-law) 184
Kingsford Smith, Elsie (sister-in-law) 173
Kingsford Smith, Elsie (sister)
see
Pike, Elsie
Kingsford Smith, Eric (brother) 6, 19, 62, 224, 460, 582
Kingsford Smith, Harold (brother) 6, 18, 29, 159–60, 164, 172, 173, 174, 275–6, 315, 538, 542
Kingsford Smith, Lady Mary (née Powell) 432–4, 435–7, 438, 439, 445, 451, 452, 455, 461–2, 475, 478, 485, 488, 500, 502, 506, 507, 510, 525, 538, 544, 548, 563–4, 565, 566, 567, 570, 576, 577, 578, 580, 582, 583, 584, 587
Kingsford Smith, Leofric (brother) 6, 19, 129, 183, 184, 206–7, 293, 386, 401, 460
Kingsford Smith-Maddocks Aeros Ltd 142
Kingsford Smith, Thelma
see
Corboy, Thelma
Kingsford Smith, Wilfrid (brother) 6, 19, 164, 491, 580

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