Bibliograph

Hudson Fysh, Grantlee Kieza

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Label

Hudson Fysh, Grantlee Kieza

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 424-452) and index

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individual biography

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mapsplatesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Hudson Fysh

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Grantlee Kieza

Summary

Hudson Fysh was a decorated World War I hero who not only founded Australia's national airline, Qantas, but steered it for almost half a century from its humble beginnings with two rickety biplanes to the age of the jumbo jets. One of Australia's celebrated Light Horsemen at Gallipoli, Fysh went on to fly death-defying missions for Lawrence of Arabia with the Australian Flying Corps and battle Germans in deadly dogfights in the skies over Palestine. On his return from the Great War, Fysh launched his bush airline, the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Ltd (Qantas), with the help of a wartime pilot friend and some western Queensland graziers. After flying the first scheduled Qantas passenger flight in 1922, he ushered in the Flying Doctor Service that still assists remote communities. Fysh went on to guide Qantas through the dark days of the Great Depression, the perilous years of World War II and into the great boom in international tourism that followed with the jet age, giving millions of Australians their first experience of international travel

Target audience

adult

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