Heroic flights /
by John Frayn Turner.
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Leo Cooper, 2003.
- vii, 279 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
The Wright brothers: birth of powered flight -- Bleriot: first to fly the English Channel -- Warneford: destroying the first Zeppelin -- Albert Ball: the earliest air ace -- Leefe Robinson: defeat of the Zeppelins -- Avery Bishop: shot down seventy-two planes -- Alan Arnett McLeod: wing-walking to live -- William Barker: survived odds of 50 to 1 -- Hawker and Grieve: attempt on the Atlantic -- Commander Read: across the Atlantic in stages -- Alcock and Brown: the Atlantic no-stop -- Alan Cobham: epic flight to Cape Town -- Alan Cobham: to Australia by seaplane -- Byrd and bennett: to the North and South Poles -- Charles Lindbergh: first Atlantic solo -- Charles Kingsford Smith: conquering the Pacific -- Amy Johnson: solo to Australia -- Jim Mollison: greatest solo ever flown -- Amelia Earhart: first woman across the Atlantic -- Colonel Blacker: looking down on Everest -- Wiley Post: around the world in eighty days -- Scott and Black: the Melbourne air race -- Jean Batten: four famous flights -- Beryl Markham: crash landing in Nova Scotia -- Scott and Guthrie: the Johannesburg Air Race -- Sydney Camm: birth of the hurricane -- R.J. Mitchell: birth of the spitfire -- Douglas Bader: the legless air ace -- Butch O'Hare: saving an aircraft carrier -- Guy Gibson: the dam busters' raid -- Denton Scott: gunner over Lorient -- Leonard Cheshire: pathfinder supreme -- George Bush: the flying casket -- The atomic bombs -- The jet age -- The firebirds and the red arrows -- Test-flying the VC10 -- The Concorde is born -- Flight 93: 11 September 2001.