Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men (116 page)

Armstrong Whitworth AW.15

monoplane 497

Armstrong Whitworth FK8 212

Ascanius
189

Associated Oil Company 293

Associated Press 491, 548

Astraea
497, 498

Atalanta
405, 407, 411

Athens 479, 578

Atlantic
147

Atlantic crossing attempt by Hawker and Grieve 147–52

Atlantic crossing by Hinkler 483–4

Atlantic Union Oil Company 372

Auckland 492

Australia

encouragement of aviation post-World War I 144, 183

first flight in 46–8

prize for flight from England to Australia 144–5, 152, 157–9, 164–7, 177–8

record flight round 258

Australia to England flights 371–81, 469, 475–9

Australia to New Zealand flight 293–5

Australian Aerial Derby 215

Australian Aircraft and Engineering Company Ltd 155, 170

Australian Flying Corps (AFC) 91, 113, 134, 136, 156, 165, 178, 385

good luck charms 108

Australian Imperial Force (AIF) 61

Australian War Records Section 114

3rd Brigade 63, 72, 73

5th Division 88–9

24th Machine Gun Company 133

53rd Australian Field Battery, 5th Division 132, 133

Australian Light Horse 81

Australian National Airways (ANA) 359, 360, 369, 371, 372, 427, 431, 437, 441–2, 450, 463, 464, 465, 466–7, 469, 470, 471, 474, 480–1, 494, 497, 548

Austria–Hungary 60

A.V. Roe (Avro) agency 180

Avro aeroplanes 155, 189, 298, 365, 369, 430, 437, 454, 475, 594

Aye Island 585–6

Baden-Powell, Lieutenant B.F.S. 29, 65

Baghdad 578, 594

Bailleul 88

Baird, Arthur 212, 214

Balderstone, Cynthia 598

Bali 531

Ball, Ralph 97

Bangkok 482

Banks, Ralph C. 45

barnstorming 176–7, 181–2, 474, 492, 493, 505, 544, 573

Barry, Dr Alfred 51

Batman, John 506

Battle of Passchendaele 112–13

Battle of the Somme 88

Bavin, Thomas 280, 297, 354

Baxter, Milton 587

Bay of Bengal 472, 482, 579, 581

Bean, Charles E.W. 114, 157

Beasley, Jack 459–60

Belgium 60, 65, 71

Bell, Alexander Graham 5

Bellanca plane 237

Bellevue Hill 463

Bennett, Jimmy 200

Berlin 64, 73, 455, 459

Berlin, Irving ‘Blue Skies’ 433–4

Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger
39

Bicycling News
21

Bishop, Billy 97

Black, Tom Campbell 508, 522, 527, 528, 529, 546, 574, 579, 600

Black Magic
522, 523

Blackburn Aircraft and Motor Company 144, 154

Blackburn Kangaroo 144–5, 154, 157–9

Blackburn, Robert 144, 145, 155, 157

Blake, Arthur 195

Blake, Major David 134

Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 253

Bledisloe, Lord 537

Blériot Aéronautique 60, 591

Blériot, Alicia 30, 34, 39, 40, 263, 493, 591

Blériot, Louis 27, 30–1, 33–42, 60, 71, 153, 260, 263, 369, 493, 591

Blériot, Simone 263

Blériot XI
33–4, 71, 591

‘blind flying’ 345–6

Blythe, Dick 252

Boeing Aircraft Company 285, 593

Boeing 247-D 522

Boelcke, Oswald 96–7

Bondi Surf Live Saving Club 23

Bouteil, Astrid 608

Bower, Sir Alfred 523

Brain, Lester 406–7, 411, 439, 604, 609

Brassac, Antonio 45, 46, 47

Brearley, Major Norman 105–6, 183–4, 194–5, 197, 201, 204, 216, 221, 222–3, 228, 240, 241, 249, 258, 385, 396, 403, 441, 504, 505, 604, 609

Briggs, Lieutenant F.S. 241

Brill, David 588

Brinsmead, Lieutenant Colonel Horace C. 204, 216, 239–40, 259, 352, 394–5, 451, 459, 481, 482, 488

Brisbane 6, 7, 178, 343, 349–53, 405, 437, 440, 471, 515, 524, 536, 543

Brisbane–Darwin route 471

Bristol Tourer 28 240, 266, 267

British Air Ministry 463, 574–5

British Expeditionary Forces 92

British Imperial Antarctic Expedition 230

British Museum 222, 230

Broad, Ted 198

Broadmeadow camp 69

Broken Hill 395, 402

Brown, Captain Roy 130

Brown, Lieutenant Arthur 246

Bruce, Prime Minister Stanley 232, 337, 338, 339, 365, 384, 409

‘bubble sextant’ 309

Buie, Robert 132–3, 605

Bulletin
,
The
528

Bundaberg 189, 300, 483, 490, 594

Burma 457, 475–7, 579, 585

Burrage, Vice-Admiral Guy Hamilton 262, 264

Byrd, Richard E. 245, 278, 369

Cadigan, Neil

A Man Among Mavericks: Lester Brain, Australia’s Greatest Aviator
604

Cairo 76–7, 79, 80

Calais 34, 35, 38

Californian Bank of Los Angeles 302

Callaghan, Mary Josephine (Jo)
see
Ulm, Josephine

Calmette, Gaston 42

Campbell, Alan 179

Campbell, Eric 405, 474

Campbell-Jones, Herbert 216, 232, 266

Canadian Pacific Railway 18

Canard
20

Canberra 357, 466

Canberra
385, 391, 394, 400, 401–2, 404, 443, 589

Canberra Times
589

Cantor, John 386, 402, 405

Cape Londonderry 377

Captain Cook
553

Carlin, Tom 224

Carnarvon 220–1, 227, 237, 396

Carpentier, Georges 251

Cartier, Louis 20–1

Cassidy, Jack 423–4

Cathay Pacific Airways 610

Catton, Tom 316, 539

Cayley, George 2

‘On Aerial Navigation’ 2

cellular kites 3–4, 5, 21

Centenary Air Race 506–19, 522–4, 527, 532, 537, 600

Chaffey, Andrew 302–3

Chamberlin, Clarence 264

Chanute, Octave 1, 5, 11, 15–16, 23
Progress in Flying Machines
1–2, 11

Chaseling, Eric 437

Chateau, Captain Clive 372, 375, 376, 379, 422

Chater, Eric 385

Chevalier, Maurice 251

Chicago Daily News
16

Christchurch 360, 364, 366, 597

Churchill, Winston 65, 72, 85, 158, 166

circumnavigating the world 431, 438

Citizens Southern Cross Rescue Committee 385, 402, 404, 406

City of Cairo
470

City of Chicago
453

Civil Air Regulations 204

Civil Aviation Branch 183, 194

Cloncurry airstrip 167–9, 517

Coates, Joseph 365, 368

Cobby, Captain Arthur Harry 136, 137, 437, 468

Cobham, Alan 371

‘Codock’, the 565

Coli, Captain François 250–1, 447, 451, 592

Colonial Sugar Refinery (CSR) 56, 63, 142, 182

Columbia
264

Compston, P.H. 407

Cook, Oliver 188

Cook, Prime Minister Joseph 61

Cook Strait 363

Coolidge, President Calvin 262, 264, 352

Coombe, Lance 393

Corboy, Thelma 208–9, 210–11, 214, 218–20, 223, 225, 226, 230–1, 368, 436, 587

Courier
(Brisbane) 266, 267

Courier-Mail
504

Covell, George D. 276

Cowra Bridge 191–2

Cross, James 136

Curran, Hugh 259–60

Custance, Fred 48

da Vinci, Leonardo 2

Daily Express
39, 571

Daily Guardian
350, 385, 403–4, 405, 406, 409, 410–12

Daily Mail
21, 28, 35, 36, 38, 39, 147

Daily Telegraph
(London) 602

Daily Telegraph
(Sydney) 16, 32, 42, 48, 166, 167, 384, 409, 586, 601

Dallas Spirit
277, 308

Darlinghurst Courthouse 416

Darwin 61, 147, 156, 164, 166, 167, 170, 200, 216, 270, 300, 383, 395, 458, 470, 471, 482, 527, 577

de Chair, Sir Dudley 354

de Havilland, Captain Geoffrey 508

de Havilland DH.50 float-and-land plane 371

de Havilland DH.80A Puss Moth 483, 490, 495

de Havilland DH.86A 505

de Havilland DH.88 Comet 508, 522

de Havilland Gipsy engine 500

de Havilland Gipsy Moth 491

Defries, Colin 48

Delagrange, Léon 26, 27

Depression, the 473–4, 496, 573

Derby 196, 205, 388, 389, 401, 405, 503

Detroit Aviation Society 230, 279

Detroit News
230, 279

Detroiter
233, 234, 236, 244, 286

Deutsches Museum, Munich 22

Diggers Co-operative Aviation Company 186, 187–9, 193

dirigibles 20

Distinguished Flying Cross 264

Dole Air Race 265, 276–7, 278, 287, 288, 302, 307, 308, 315, 506

Dole, James D. 265

Doran, Mildred 277

Douglas, Captain Roger 163

Douglas, Sergeant 414

Dover 37–8

Downing, W.H. ‘Jimmy’ 88

Drysdale River Mission 377, 390, 597

Dubbo 188

Dublin 444

Duke of Atholl 484

Dunn, Senator James Patrick Digger 497

Dunnell, Charles 465

Eadon, Captain Alan 585

Earhart, Amelia 539

earth inductor compass 309

Eastern Air Transport 545

Eaton, Flight Lieutenant Charles 410, 415

Edzard, Cornelius 293

Egypt 76, 86

Egyptian Gazette
77

Eichwaldt, Alvin 277, 308, 315

Eielson, Ben 232–6, 244–6, 279, 312–13, 605

El Encanto
277

Elliott, Lieutenant Milton ‘Skeets’ 181

Ellison, Norman 213, 350, 351

England to Australia flights 298–300, 427–8, 454–9, 469, 489–90, 499–501, 503, 506, 577–83

English Channel crossing 35–8

equator, crossing the 17–18, 75–6, 332

Erwin, William P. 277, 308

Escopette
36, 39, 493

Ethyl Corporation 587

Evans, Gunner ‘Snowy’ 133

Evening News
401