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Mollison The Flying Scotsman

David Luff

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Description:James Allan Mollison became a legend in his own lifetime. His curriculum vitae compares with the best that any of Hollywood's publicity men in the glitz and glamour of the thirties could ever dream up. Born into a Scottish middle-class family at the beginning of the century, he became in turn one of the RAF's youngest officer pilots to see action flying worn out WWI fighters on the North West Frontier; a hippie in Tahiti in its pre-tourist days; a Bondi beach attendant; a flying instructor and would-be speedway rider at Adelaide, before joining Charles Kingsford Smith's newly formed Australian National Airways in 1930, flying the mail and passengers in the primitive airliners of those days.Arguably, Jim Mollison was the greatest of all the long-distance solo pilots during the golden age of aviation. For sheer bravery and unrelenting determination in the air, he was without peer. Not only was he the first to complete a successful trans-Sahara flight from the UK to the Cape alone, but he also had the distinction of being the first person to solo both North and South Atlantic oceans.The publicity aroused by Mollison's audacious flying achievements was only surpassed by the affairs of his not-so-private life. A whirlwind romance with the 18-year-old Lady Diana Wellesley just before his engagement and marriage to the famous aviatrix Amy Johnson in 1932, and subsequent flirtation with the well-known actress Dorothy Ward, fixed him firmly in the public eye. From thereon his playboy persona and hard-drinking took over and his fame quickly became tarnished as it slid into notoriety.Unfortunately, history has not dealt kindly with Jim Mollison, for he has, both during his lifetime and since his tragic and untimely death, languished under the shadow of Amy Johnson's fame. This has no doubt largely been due to the distorion of his character by the media, both in film and in television. In this first full-length biography of the aviator, author David Luff has set out to put the record straight.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mollison The Flying Scotsman. To get started finding Mollison The Flying Scotsman, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 399

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ISBN: 0952183900

Description: James Allan Mollison became a legend in his own lifetime. His curriculum vitae compares with the best that any of Hollywood's publicity men in the glitz and glamour of the thirties could ever dream up. Born into a Scottish middle-class family at the beginning of the century, he became in turn one of the RAF's youngest officer pilots to see action flying worn out WWI fighters on the North West Frontier; a hippie in Tahiti in its pre-tourist days; a Bondi beach attendant; a flying instructor and would-be speedway rider at Adelaide, before joining Charles Kingsford Smith's newly formed Australian National Airways in 1930, flying the mail and passengers in the primitive airliners of those days.Arguably, Jim Mollison was the greatest of all the long-distance solo pilots during the golden age of aviation. For sheer bravery and unrelenting determination in the air, he was without peer. Not only was he the first to complete a successful trans-Sahara flight from the UK to the Cape alone, but he also had the distinction of being the first person to solo both North and South Atlantic oceans.The publicity aroused by Mollison's audacious flying achievements was only surpassed by the affairs of his not-so-private life. A whirlwind romance with the 18-year-old Lady Diana Wellesley just before his engagement and marriage to the famous aviatrix Amy Johnson in 1932, and subsequent flirtation with the well-known actress Dorothy Ward, fixed him firmly in the public eye. From thereon his playboy persona and hard-drinking took over and his fame quickly became tarnished as it slid into notoriety.Unfortunately, history has not dealt kindly with Jim Mollison, for he has, both during his lifetime and since his tragic and untimely death, languished under the shadow of Amy Johnson's fame. This has no doubt largely been due to the distorion of his character by the media, both in film and in television. In this first full-length biography of the aviator, author David Luff has set out to put the record straight.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mollison The Flying Scotsman. To get started finding Mollison The Flying Scotsman, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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