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Wings of Fate

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Wings of Fate

Wings of Fate

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Sir Sefton Brancker, when Director of Civil Aviation from 1922 until his death in the crash of H.M. Airship Rao', urged Norman Macmillan to write of his flying experiences during the earliest years of civil aviation after the First World War. Macmillan has already told some parts of his experiences in Freelance Pilot, Great Aircraft, Great Flights and Air Adventures, and in articles in Flight and other magazines. But the four stories told in Wings of Fate appear for the first time. Each is a fascinating tale and a contribution to aviation history, and as always in Macmillan's books, there is a treasure trove of meticulously accurate detail for connoisseurs of period flying.
Although often asked why, during his seven consecutive years as chief test pilot of the Fairey Aviation Co. Ltd, the Long Range Monoplane was the only Fairey prototype in which he did not make the initial flight, Macmillan has hitherto refused to tell this story. He felt that, if told earlier, it might have added to the grief of the relatives of two officers who died when flying that machine. In Wings of Fate this story is told for the first time under the section title `For the Record'. Premonitions of disaster at sea are well known. This is an aviation one—something far less usual.
The second story, Richthofen's 18th Victory, tells of the terrifying experience of a pilot and observer when flying a Vickers Gunbus in France in 1915 and of how Richthofen forced the same pilot to land behind the German lines when flying an RE2b in January 1917. This story, told for the first time from the pilot's own records, corrects previous versions from other sources (including Richthofen's) which, among other mistakes, said both of the pilot's legs were shattered by Richthofen's bullets. Here is the version known to the man involved. It tells of his and his observer's capture, of his meeting with Karl Schafer, Kurt Wolff and other Richthofen pilots, of life in five prisoner-of-war camps, and eventual mid-winter escape from the one farthest east in Germany, a land then in revolt and starving, the trek on foot over the mountains into Bohemia to reach Prague and thence home through Austria, Italy and France.
In the third, Friends and Enemies, Macmillan, living the exciting life of a free-lance pilot, tells how in 1923 he flew a Bristol Fighter to 'somewhere in Serbia'. Never have we read a more vivid description of what it was like to fly across Europe in those days in mid-winter. He had no radio, no blind flying instruments or adequate maps; the development of a mysterious fault entailed frequent forced landings, often within a hairsbreadth of smashing the machine; and in the ex-enemy countries he faced the risk of arrest and the seizure of his aeroplane for reasons which he tells. This unique flight conforms exactly to the pattern that Brancker asked Macmillan to put on record so that the difficulties and dangers of such flying in those days may never be forgotten in a world in which air travel has become commonplace and safe.
The final story, about one of the earliest attempts to fly the Atlantic east to west has, like the first, a strong touch of the supernatural.


WING COMMANDER NORMAN MACMILLAN, 0.B.E., M.C., A.F.C., is a Scotsman internationally known as an airman and author. He is a Deputy Lieutenant of Cornwall with over twenty years' service in five different commissions, and a lifetime associated with flying, since he saw the 1909 Wright, the Cody, Farman, Bleriot, Antoinette, Santos Dumont, and other early aircraft fly—and crash ! He fought with the H.L.I. in France for sixteen and a half months; learned to fly with the R.F.C.; fought in France and Italy as a reconnaissance and fighter pilot; was officially credited with eleven air victories; graduated at Gosport School of Flying; was an R.A.F. flying instructor of fighter pilots; commanded a special mobile emergency unit of the R.A.F.; and wrote the First World War classic Into the Blue.
He was flying instructor to the Spanish Navy and Army Air Forces; in the Spanish front line during Riff War in Morocco; pilot of the First World War Flight Expedition; first pilot to fly from London to Sweden in a day; speed prizewinner at the first International Light Aeroplane meeting; first British pilot to fly across the Andes; first test pilot to make official diving tests and to spin-test float-planes; has been one of Britain's leading test pilots for fifteen years. President, National League of Airmen. Widely travelled as pilot and as war and air correspondent, working in France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, and other countries during the Second World War; flew on operations (1958) during the Malayan emergency against Communist terrorists; visited Cyprus during the Grivas emergency. He has flown in a great variety of landplanes, floatplanes, flying-boats, amphibians, autogiros, helicopters and jets—from 1914 Maurice Farman to Mosquito, Comet, Meteor, Canberra, Britannia, Boeing 707, and Trident. First R.A.F. member of Cornwall Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, 1947-61; twice Vice-Chairman (Air). He commanded Cornwall Wing, A.T.C., 1945-58; was founder associate member of the Institution of Aeronautical Engineers, 1919; Associate Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, 1928; one of the founders of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators, 1929, a first Warden, Deputy Master (1934-5), and, today, a Freeman and Liveryman of the Guild.



by Norman Macmillan
Published by Bell 1st edn. 1967 191pp 15x22 very good, including d/j.





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