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qantas by george
paul byrnes George Roberts was born in Ipswich. Queensland in 1909. He saw his first which landed in a paddock near his house, when he was eight and took his first flight in a flying boat on Moreton Bay in 1920 when he was 10. George who is now over 90 is the oldest living former employee of Qantas. His life has been both fortunate and adventurous, spanning two centuries and the whole modern history of trains, planes and automobiles. His father once built the former: George and his elder brother Norm (also a Qantas engineer) spent much of their lives pre-Qantas building, racing and sometimes crashing both the latter: They were hotrodders before the term existed. Souping up Model T Fords and speed-trialing them on Southport's Main Beach before it was the Gold Coast. They built planes too, like the tiny Flying Flea, using plans published in Newnes Practical Mechanics magazine. Their Flea, which really did fly. now hangs in the Queensland Museum. The Roberts boys were gifted engineers and in Qantas hangars from Perth to Surabaya and Rose Bay, they found the biggest tool shed a kid could ever want. This is the story of an Australian larrikin with a passion for engines, aeroplanes and speed, a man who witnessed and took part in many of the great event$ of the first century of Australian aviation. George has forgotten nothing. So his story is absorbing, often wildly funny and uniquely Australian. Many of the stories have never been told before, nor many of the photographs previously published.
196 pp - Paperback - Published 2002
Australia = AUD$32 (including postage, packing and GST) PNG and NZ = AUD$47 (including economy air mail and packing) The World = AUD$52 (including economy air mail and packing) Note: The overseas prices are for individual books, discount available for multiple purchases.
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