Book Reviews

Australian Flying Corps

I. Hodges Dept Veteran Affairs

This book is a photographic essay of the AFC in WWI. After 28 pages of introduction covering the theatres and squadrons of the AFC, the book comprises a photograph per page with captions. The usual Bristol Fighters, Camels, R.E.8 and S.E.5a biplanes appear in well-known photographs, but it is the other photographs that are this book’s strength.

Bristol Boxkites at Point Cook

Gretton, Matthews, Kightly Project 2014

This book has been put together by the team that built the Bristol Boxkite reproduction at the RAAF Museum, Point Cook, Victoria. Starting with the history of the Boxkite the book proceed to the story of the type at Point Cook, this takes up the first 40 pages of the book.

A Passion for Flight (Vol III)

Errol W. Martyn Volplane Press

This third Volume of New Zealand aviation history covers their military beginnings 1910-1914 and the complete story of john Hammond until his death in 1918. Far from being confined to New Zealand this history covers the diverse activities of Kiwi aviators, from Alban Roberts and his radio controlled experiments in Australia, Britain and the USA to Lt Hugh Reilly who play a major role in the early Indian Air Force and their CFS [which later combined with the Australian CFS in Mesopotamia.