Faith in Australia: Charles Ulm and Australian Aviation by Ellen Rogers

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Author has added large inscription to half-title page. Light foxing to top forege. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are also very good.

Charles T P Ulm was an extraordinary combination of a man of action and a businessman. He fought at Gallipoli at age sixteen and was badly wounded in France. Undeterred, he teamed up with Kingsford Smith in the 1920s, organising and serving as co-pilot during the epic flights of the Southern Cross.

The two men formed Australian National Airways, set new flight records to England, and endured the tragedy resulting from the forced landing at Coffee Royal and later the collapse of their business.

Battling government indifference, Ulm captured the world's imagination in his flights in Faith of Australia, so named because of his confidence in and dedication to the future of aviation in Australia, and lost his life over the Pacific. (book flap)