Pacific Flight. The Story of the 'Lady Southern Cross'
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, December 1935 (second edition)/ November 1935.
Octavo, xiv, 262 pages plus 24 plates and endpaper maps.
Cloth lightly flecked and marked; spine a little sunned; relevant pencilled inscription on the front pastedown; a very good copy.
Describes the first flight, via Suva and Hawaii in 1934, across the Pacific from Australia to San Francisco to Hawaii, Fiji in a Lockheed Altair with Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. Taylor (1896-1966) was rejected by the AFC, so he travelled to Britain to join the RFC, where he was commissioned in 1916 and, amongst other things, was awarded the MC. In the 1930s he became a veteran navigator of long-distance flights with Charles Ulm and Sir Charles Kingsford Smith (from the entry in 'Australian Dictionary of Biography').
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