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Wigram Field 366, 592
Wilce, Warwick 23
Wilkins, George Hubert 63–4,
113–15, 129–30, 133, 134, 157–9, 222, 230, 232–6, 238, 244–6, 279–81, 283–4, 286, 312–13, 397, 605
Wilkinson, Ian 610
Wilkinson, Major 108, 123
William Fox Studios 181
Williams, Lieutenant Colonel Richard 154
Wilson, Brigadier General Lachlan C. 409, 422, 427
Wilson, President Woodrow 143
Wilson, Staff-Sergeant Richard Huber Victor 53
Wilton, Bishop 460
Windeyer, Richard 370–1
Winton, Queensland 186
Winton State High School 213
‘wireless telephony’ 493
Wittber, Bill 48
Wixted, Ted 585
The Last Flight of Bert Hinkler
594
Wolff, Kurt 105
Woods Humphreys, George 571
Woods, Jim 385, 390
Woolaroc
277
World War I
aeroplanes, use of 65–7, 95–7
armistice 139
assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 59–60
Dardanelles campaign 65, 72–3, 75, 78
survivor accounts 602
trench warfare 65
Western Front 88, 104
World War II 601, 607
World Wildlife Fund 608
Wormald, Sergeant Frank 133
Wright Aeronautical 252
Wright, Bishop 11, 54, 204
Wright breakthrough, news of 15
Wright, John Charles 50–1
Wright, Katharine 54, 119
Wright, Major 536
Wright, Orville 11–12, 14–15, 16, 19, 25, 27, 54, 119, 279, 282, 602
Wright Whirlwind Engines 278–9, 284, 285, 289, 292, 363, 430
Wright, Wilbur 11–12, 14–15, 16, 19, 29, 30, 31, 41–2, 54, 65
successful French flight 25–8
Wyndham 372, 374–6, 379, 386, 388, 396, 399, 402, 406, 408, 410, 421, 475, 501
Ziegfeld, Florenz 600

 

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Nene

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Kokoda

Steve Waugh

Tobruk

The Ballad of Les Darcy

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First published in Australia in 2009

This edition published in 2010

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Charles Kingsford Smith and those magnificent men /Peter FitzSimons.
ISBN 978 0 7322 8487 9 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-730-49278-8 (epub)
Includes index.
Bibliography.
Kingsford-Smith, Charles, 1897–1935.
Aeronautics – History.
Air pilots – History

 

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Cover and internal design by Matt Stanton

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Table of Contents

Cover Page

Epigraph

HIGH FLIGHT

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

One IN THE BEGINNING…

Two DISTANCE

Three WAR!

Four IN THE TRENCHES

Five ACES AT DAWN…

Six APRES LA GUERRE

Seven HOMEWARD BOUND

Eight THELMA

Nine PIONEERS AWAY…

Ten THE TOUGH GET GOING

Eleven ACROSS THE PACIFIC…

Twelve THE URGE TO ELSEWHERE…

Thirteen COFFEE ROYAL

Fourteen TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS

Fifteen NEW FRONTIERS

Sixteen TO AND FRO…

Seventeen TROUBLES

Eighteen THE GREAT RACE

Nineteen OUT ON A WING AND A PRAYER

EPILOGUE

ENDNOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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