The flight of the Mew Gull : record-breaking flying in the 1930s
Henshaw, Alex2015
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This is the story of the author's solo flight from England to Cape Town in a single-engined Percival Mew Gull in 1939, a distance of 12,754 miles over desert, sea and jungle. His flight established several solo records which still stand in 1998.
Main title:
The flight of the Mew Gull : record-breaking flying in the 1930s / Alex Henshaw.
Author:
Imprint:
Shrewsbury : Airlife, 1998.
Collation:
269 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: John Murray, 1980.Includes index.
ISBN:
9781840370218 (pbk)
Dewey class:
629.13092
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
330389