Acquisitions, Books

Acquisitions

Peter Williams. The Kokoda Campaign 1942: Myth and Reality. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2012. This is one of those topics I should know more about, being a military historian and an Australian and all. Ordinarily I might be wary of a book with ‘myth and reality’ in the title, but it’s unlikely to be sensationalist

Charles Kingsford Smith
1910s, 1920s, 1930s, Aircraft, Archives, Australia, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Pictures

Smithy and the mystery aeroplane

Charles Kingsford Smith was and remains Australia’s most famous pioneer aviator. Among his feats: the first trans-Pacific flight, in both directions in fact (1928, east to west; 1934, west to east); the first non-stop trans-Australian flight (1928); the first trans-Tasman flight (1928). It’s probably fair to think of him as the Australian Lindbergh in terms

Acquisitions, Books

Acquisitions

Peter Adey. Aerial Life: Spaces, Mobilities, Affects. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. The title isn’t very revealing of its contents. But here’s a partial list of the topics covered: airminded youth groups such as the Air Defence Cadet Corps and the Skybird League (chapter 2), air shows including Hendon (chapter 3), the birth of aerial surveying (chapter

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