Book 1 traces the development of aviation overseas then the development of airmail in Australia at first by pioneer airmen and eventually to operating air services in the 1920s and 1930s.
 
‘Distance is characteristic of Australia . . . by sealanes or airlanes most parts of Australia are at least 12,000 miles from Western Europe the source of most of its people.’  Blainey
 
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454 pages of information, schedules, appendices and index
413 Images, comprising covers, maps, photographs and illustrations