An Air Fighter's Scrapbook [Hardcover]

Ira Taffy Jones was a well-known air fighter during the First World War, having scored about 40 victories flying SE5 scouts in France with 74 Squadron. Well known in flying circles, Jones recorded stories drawn from his own experiences during the war and wrote of the many personalities he had met or known by association, both during the war and in the post-war flying years.An Air Fighters Scrap Book recreates the atmosphere of the days of the biplane, of wartime flying, of early peacetime adventures in the air, the development of civil aviation, and breathtaking record beating flights, all evoking the sheer delight in flying that characterized those early years. &lively and well told&a well done volume Preface1. They Risked Their Necks2. The ChildThe BoyThe Youth3. I Find a Friend for Life4. The Legend of the Mad Major5. Richthofen and His Circus6. Builders of the Air Force Tradition7. With the Tiger Squadron8. Exploits of the Dawn Patrol9. Distinguished Service OrderBuckingham PalaceArrested10. Private War in North Russia11. Sea and Sand12. H.R.H. The Prince Of WalesCharles LongcroftSefton Brancker13. Lawrence of Arabia14. Six Happy Years and Au Revoir15. A Few Things the War Taught Me16. Rugger17. Foesbut Heroes18. Falcons of France19. They Blazed the Transatlantic Trail20. Heroines of the Air21. Flyers Who Blazed World Air Trails22. Civilian Transport and Imperial Airways23. Believe It or Not24. Bombers and the Next European War25. Notes, by Norman FranksUS