The world's greatest air mysteries

Object detail

Accession number

15-1301

Maker

Michael Hardwick

Description

The greatest mystery of them all -- The disaster to R-101 -- Flight into mystery -- Two stars fall -- A 27-year old mystery solved -- The deaths of Ulm and Kingsford Smith -- Balloon over the North Pole -- A royal tragedy at Eagle's Rock -- The disaster of Mount Torment -- The Colorado jigsaw -- First across the Tasman? -- "A red eagle falling" -- The ace who flew too high -- The mystery of the Italia -- The lesson of Yoke Peter -- The lost tycoon -- Disaster on "Red 19" -- Exit a heroine -- Suicide behind schedule? -- The eccentric aviator of Woburn Abbey -- Collision course.

Media/Materials

Processed Material/Paper

Physical description

254 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN

0600721817

Collection

Clive Lye Collection

Credit line

Michael Hardwick. 1970. The world's greatest air mysteries, 15-1301. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).

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Book Communication Artefacts Documentary Artefacts Other Documents

Production place

Feltham Middlesex England Great Britain British Isles Europe Great Britain United Kingdom

Subject: all levels

Aircraft accidents Airships Ulm, Charles Thomas Philippe, 1898-1934 Kingsford Smith, Charles Edward, Sir, 1897-1935 Hot air balloons Hood, George, Captain, 1893-1928 Moncrieff, John Robert, 1899-1928 Richthofen, Manfred, Freiherr von, 1892-1918

Collection type

Published Titles Walsh Memorial Library

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