Aircraft

The Flying Scotsman – The Life of Pioneer Aviator James Allan Mollison, portrait frontispiece and b&w photo illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography & index, xii & 399 pp, dark blue cloth in d/w, fine condition, Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, D.C.) 1995

23.4 x 15 cm, 910g, ISBN 1 56098 621 2

Although known for his record-breaking flights, Mollison had been the RAF’s youngest flying instructor.  He used a De Havilland Puss Moth for many of his long-distance flights, and the author wonders if Mollison was aware of its reputation to shed wings in turbulent conditions . . . . Mollison lived to 1959, at any rate!

See the description (below) from the dustwrapper flaps.