My Life

Illustrations

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Welcomed Home on the Conclusion of my England-New Zealand Flight	Frontispiece
At Stag Lane Aerodrome	26
Being greeted by Colonel Tempesti at Rome	27
Supervising the Engine Work at Calcutta	58
Acknowledging the Welcome on Arrival at Sydney	59
A Maori Greeting	88
Taking off for England	89
The President of Brazil, Dr Vargas, confers upon me the Order of the Southern Cross	170
My Arrival at Buenos Aires	171
Being welcomed to Uruguay by the President's Daughter	192
At The Sorbonne	193
With my Mother and Officers of the Spanish Air Force at Seville	210
Receiving the Cross of the Legion of Honour from Lieutenant-Colonel Wateau	211
With the Gull at Hatfield Aerodrome	220
A Film Interview before leaving for New Zealand	221
The Gull takes off into the Dawn bound for New Zealand	238
Mount Egmont, New Zealand	239
FLying over Auckland	252
Arriving at Auckland	253
Trout-fishing at Lake Wakatipu	260

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Searching for the Missing Air Liner	261
Magnetic Anthills near Darwin	268
Customs Clearance Document from Port Darwin	269
At Rambang with the Dutch Administrator, M. Barker, and his Party	282
The Aerodrome at Nicosia after the Cloudburst	283
The Welcome at Croydon	288
At the Royal Aero Club Reception	289
Being televised at the B.B.C. Studios, Alexandra Palace	292
Tea at the Mansion House with the Lord Mayor and Lady Twyford and Viscount Wakefield	293
With "Jean Batten" at Madame Tussaud's	296
Arrival at Stockholm	297