Walsh Brothers : New Zealand aviation pioneers
Maker and role
Ross Ewing, Author
Richard L. Williams, Author
Production date
2011
Object detail
Accession number
PUB-2020-12
Description
"This book has been written as a tribute to Leo and Vivian Walsh who were known as the Walsh brothers and were among New Zealand's aviation pioneers. It covers aspects of the early development of New Zealand aviation, especially the origins of this country's miltary sphere and that of civil aviation. It makes a link between these developments and the earlier endeavours of the Walsh brothers and the New Zealand Flying School, which they founded.
The book has many illustrations, a number of which have never been published before. Many - although in black & white - are complemented by fine colour paintings of First World War aircraft flown by many of the Walsh-trained aviators. There are also some excellent rare fine-line digrams.
A prominent treatise arising from this book is that were it not for the ideas and enthusiastic determination shown by the Walsh brothers over 100 years ago - and the pilots they subsequently trained at one of the first ever flying schools in the Southern Hemisphere - aviation in New Zealand would not have subsequently progressed in the directed and positive way it did." -- blurb.
The book has many illustrations, a number of which have never been published before. Many - although in black & white - are complemented by fine colour paintings of First World War aircraft flown by many of the Walsh-trained aviators. There are also some excellent rare fine-line digrams.
A prominent treatise arising from this book is that were it not for the ideas and enthusiastic determination shown by the Walsh brothers over 100 years ago - and the pilots they subsequently trained at one of the first ever flying schools in the Southern Hemisphere - aviation in New Zealand would not have subsequently progressed in the directed and positive way it did." -- blurb.
Media/Materials
Physical description
66 p. : illustrations ; 21 x 30 cm.
ISBN/ISSN
9780958299398
Other title
Walsh
Credit line
Ross Ewing et al. 2011. Walsh Brothers : New Zealand aviation pioneers, PUB-2020-12. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
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