Author: Crotty, David.
Title: A Flying Life: John Duigan and the First Australian Aeroplane.
Description: Melbourne Museum Victoria, 2010. 1st ed. Paperback large wide octavo, very good condition, black & white & sepia (brown-tinted) photos, minor edgewear. 170 pp. Biography of John Robertson Duigan who built and successfully flew the first aeroplane made in Australia. He used photos, journal articles and an unreliable textbook as his guides. The full story of his flying career and his life has now been published for the first time. From his early years as a Melbourne schoolboy to his heroic activities as a pilot on the Western Front in WW1, his life is a story of ingenuity and independence. ISBN: 9780980619034

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