Author: CHARLWOOD, D. E.
Title: Take-off to Touchdown.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. [x], 131; illustrated endpapers, 12 pages of b/w. photographic plates, text line drawings, maps, & diagrams, original publishers brown cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket a little worn, name on half title page, good copy. Sydney; Angus & Robertson Ltd.; 1967. The book traces the historical development of the industry, from the days when pilots such as Kingsford-Smith, Charles Ulm, Jim Mollison, Scotty Allan and P.G. Taylor flew across the continent without radio communication or aerial maps, and lacking reliable weather forecast up to the detailed planning that lies behind today's routine internal airline flight from Melbourne to Sydney.

Keywords: Aviation Air-traffic military