My Life
Illustrations
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Illustrations
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 | 260page 14 |
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 |