Amazing Australians in their flying machines /
Mason, Prue,
Amazing Australians in their flying machines / Prue & Kerry Mason ; illustrations by Tom Jellett. - 30 pages : colour illustrations ; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author and licensed pilot Prue Mason shares how a handful of early aviators helped Australia reach beyond its borders to lands far away. Imagine what it was like to travel to far-off places before there were aeroplanes. For early 20th-century Australians, it could take days, weeks, or months just to get where they were going. Amazing Australians and Their Flying Machines tells the stories of ten brave Australians, including the youngest licensed woman pilot Nancy Bird, who took to the skies and changed the face of aviation forever.
For secondary school age.
9781922244635
Air pilots--Australia--Juvenile literature.
Flight--History--Juvenile literature.
Aeronautics--History--Australia--Juvenile literature.
Adventure and adventurers--Australia--Juvenile literature.
629.13092
Amazing Australians in their flying machines / Prue & Kerry Mason ; illustrations by Tom Jellett. - 30 pages : colour illustrations ; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author and licensed pilot Prue Mason shares how a handful of early aviators helped Australia reach beyond its borders to lands far away. Imagine what it was like to travel to far-off places before there were aeroplanes. For early 20th-century Australians, it could take days, weeks, or months just to get where they were going. Amazing Australians and Their Flying Machines tells the stories of ten brave Australians, including the youngest licensed woman pilot Nancy Bird, who took to the skies and changed the face of aviation forever.
For secondary school age.
9781922244635
Air pilots--Australia--Juvenile literature.
Flight--History--Juvenile literature.
Aeronautics--History--Australia--Juvenile literature.
Adventure and adventurers--Australia--Juvenile literature.
629.13092