Contested Skies: Trans-australia Airlines Australian Airlines 1946 -
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TAA had almost a fifty-year record of ground-breaking aviation throughout Australia. Along with Qantas, the airline helped Australia overcome the "tyranny of distance", and made a sustained contribution to aviation in its early years.
'Gunn's volumes are a major contribution to our understanding of significant elements in the twentieth century... Future general historians will have no excuse for ignoring aviation.'
Cameron Hazlehurst, Australian Historical Studies
'Great aviation, great history and a great, great read. Congratulations yet again, Mr Gunn.'
Frank Cranston, Canberra Times
Author: John Gunn
Format: Paperback, 560 pages, 129mm x 198mm, 432 g
Published: 1999, University of Queensland Press, Australia
Genre: Regional History
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TAA had almost a fifty-year record of ground-breaking aviation throughout Australia. Along with Qantas, the airline helped Australia overcome the "tyranny of distance", and made a sustained contribution to aviation in its early years.
'Gunn's volumes are a major contribution to our understanding of significant elements in the twentieth century... Future general historians will have no excuse for ignoring aviation.'
Cameron Hazlehurst, Australian Historical Studies
'Great aviation, great history and a great, great read. Congratulations yet again, Mr Gunn.'
Frank Cranston, Canberra Times
Contested Skies: Trans-australia Airlines Australian Airlines 1946 -