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By Matthew Benns

This publication is the account of the Qantas tale that each airline passenger must learn: the entire and frank heritage of Australia's nationwide airline. It takes you into the boardroom, the place golden parachutes are signed off, and onto the hangar flooring, the place engineers conflict accounting cuts to maintain planes flying competently. It takes you again to the root of the airline to disprove the road that Qantas by no means crashes. this is often the warts and all heritage the Qantas PR division doesn't wish you to learn ... yet you could guess they'll be interpreting it too!

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587 miles per hour. APRIL 16 During a practice flight, Lieutenants John A. Macready and Oakley G. Kelly pilot a Fokker T-2 to new world distance, payload, and endurance records of 2,516 miles in 36 hours and 4 minutes while carrying 10,800 pounds of supplies. APRIL 17 At Dayton, Ohio, Lieutenant Rutledge Irvine flies a Liberty enginepowered Douglas DT biplane to a Class C record of 11,609 feet. Concurrently, Lieutenant Harold R. 35 miles per hour over 1,500 kilometers while flying a Liberty 375-powered DH-4L.

Smith coaxes his Curtiss JN-4 down after successfully completing the first coast-to-coast flight from San Diego, California, by Army pilots. His was the only machine to complete the trip. , Major General Charles T. Menoher assumes office as director of the Air Service. J ANUARY 6 Four Army Curtiss JN-4H Jennies fly 4,000 miles during a crosscountry flight to select airfields for the forthcoming airmail service. J ANUARY 18 A Loening monoplane flown by Major Rudolph W. Schroeder and powered by a 300-horsepower Hispano engine reaches a record altitude of 19,500 feet.

S. Air Service. A PRIL 6 At Seattle, Washington, four Douglas World Cruisers christened Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, and Seattle depart on the first attempted round-theworld flight. This 26,350-mile mission is also the first transpacific flight and the first westbound crossing of the North Atlantic. APRIL 30 In Alaska, the Douglas World Cruiser named Seattle crashes into a mountainside, although the crew survives and is rescued. MAY 2 Over Dayton, Ohio, Lieutenants John A. Macready and Albert Stevens take an aerial photograph of the town, which covers 19 square miles; to do this, they make an unofficial altitude record in their LePere aircraft.

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