Autobiography of Australia’s Great Aviator – Sir Gordon Taylor – First Edition

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A particularly good copy of the first edition of this desirable autobiography published by Cassell in 1963.

Subtitled - “A famous aviator’s personal story of pioneering aviation: 1916 to 1951”.

Octavo, 366 pages, illustrated from period photographs.

Gordan Taylor (1896-1966) was one of those adventurous Aussies, one of the few that flew in WWI – he won the Military Cross [the Air Force was part of the Army in those days]. So, his story starts in 1916 at the age of twenty. On return to Australia, he pursued his passion for flying with vigour – teaming up with Charles Kingsford-Smith there are many adventures. One of which saw him out of the aircraft [Southern Cross] over the Tasman Sea shifting oil from one engine to the other, in a thermos flask, in order to make terra firma.

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Gordon Taylor – one of the great pioneering aviation heroes

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Autobiography of Australia’s Great Aviator – Sir Gordon Taylor – First Edition

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