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Sundowner of the skies : the story of Oscar Garden : the forgotten aviator / Mary Garden.

Sundowner of the skies : the story of Oscar Garden : the forgotten aviator / Mary Garden.
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ISBN 9781760790936
Author Garden, Mary (author.)
Title Sundowner of the skies : the story of Oscar Garden : the forgotten aviator / Mary Garden.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Chatswood, NSW : New Holland Publishers, 2019.
©2019.
Description 192 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimilies, geneological table ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographic references.
Contents Author's note -- Introduction -- 1. Merchant prince of Orkney -- 2. Family ruptures -- 3. War and peace -- 4. The flight -- 5. Honour and glory business -- 6. Barnstorming -- 7. Africa and the Middle East -- 8. Trapped in England -- 9. The boss -- 10. The tomato grower -- 11. The forgotten aviator.
Appendix one: Articles or book chapters on Oscar Garden published 1960-1994, afte he left TEAL -- Appendix two: My articles [2003-2015]
Summary "In the early morning of 16 October 1930, Oscar Garden taxied his tiny Gipsy Moth across London’s Croydon aerodrome and, with a wave of his hand to the only person there to farewell him, took off. His plan was to fly to Australia, which was sheer madness as he only had a mere 39 flying hours under his belt. When he landed at Wyndham 18 days later no one was expecting him. However, his flight – the third fastest after veteran aviators Bert Hinkler and Charles Kingsford – captured the world’s imagination. With a lack of fanfare, he had given the impression he had just set out on a short pleasure trip, instead of the most formidable feat in aerial navigation. The press dubbed him ‘Sundowner of the Skies’. Unlike most of his contemporaries who died in crashes, Oscar survived and went on to a career in commercial aviation. He ended up as Chief Pilot of Tasman Empire Airways, the forerunner of Air New Zealand, but left suddenly in 1947. He never flew a plane again. Sundowner of Skies is a deeply personal study told by his daughter Mary Garden. This book is her journey of discovery. Until recently, she knew little about her father’s life as an aviator. As well as digging up his amazing flying adventures, she uncovers his tumultuous childhood in north Scotland, the ghosts of his past, which he could not escape, and shines a light on the intergenerational trauma that impacted her own life." --Publisher's website.
Subjects Garden, Oscar, -- 1903-1997
Air pilots
Transcontinental flights
Aeronautics
Moth (Training plane)
Aeronautics -- New Zealand
Air pilots -- New Zealand -- Biography
Call number 2019.451
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