Books and literature

Abstract

The story of how aviation has opened up the African continent promises to be a formidable subject and initial inspection of such chapter headings as “The Nile hydro‐aeroplane” and “The link to West Africa” hardly relieves the impression. But David Jones, an experienced broadcaster, appreciates how easily readers, like listeners, switch off. So he recounts the story almost entirely as achievements by personalities. Those flying that Nile hydro‐aeroplane were Francis McClean and party and the link to West Africa was forged by Coningham and Rowley. Only the last section concentrates on the comparative impersonality of the airlines.

Citation

(1971), "Books and literature", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 43 No. 9, pp. 43-44. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb034815