Open Cockpit over Africa

Name: Open Cockpit over Africa
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ISBN: 9780595186785

ISBN-10: 0595186785

ISBN-13: 9780595186785

Edition: 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Victor Smith

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Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/7/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748

Foreword
Prologue	p. 1
Map	p. 2
I Opt for flying rather than footwear	p. 3
A plan to break Cape-to-London record	p. 11
Into the 'Big Black Void'	p. 22
I survive a West African tornado	p. 30
Forced down in the Sahara	p. 38
Touaregs arrive--and I'm saved by Eno's	p. 46
Taken into the tribe--and a lion roars	p. 53
Airborne again, after 5 days in the desert	p. 58
I nearly end up in the English Channel	p. 65
A crack at the London-Cape record, 1933	p. 70
Across the desert--then stuck in mud	p. 80
A night forced landing, at Vanrhynsdorp	p. 90
Work on the 'Dart'--and I see Betty again	p. 101
First official airmail, Windhoek-London	p. 105
Down again--and a 50-mile desert walk	p. 118
Four days in a French fortress, then Dakar	p. 129
Back home by sea--and work on 'Aircar'	p. 135
The 1936 Portsmouth-Johannesburg Air Race	p. 143
Up with the leaders--then problems	p. 153
With De Havillands--and to Okavango	p. 162
Into the war--and flying Beaufighters	p. 171
Epilogue	p. 180
Postscript	p. 185
Index	p. 186
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