![]() ![]() ![]() Using war diaries, letters and Churchill Fellowship research from along the race route, Long Flight Home recreates one of the most important - and largely forgotten - chapters in world aviation history. Smith is banking on an open-cockpit Vickers Vimy, a biplane with a fuselage that looks ominously like a coffin.Īnd who can resist a hero? Wally writes to Helena to say he won't be home for another year - and the love of his life is left holding her hand-stitched wedding dress. But Wally never reckoned on charismatic fighter pilot Ross Smith, and an invitation to compete in the world's most audacious air race.Ī £10,000 prize has been offered for the first airmen to fly from England to Australia. ![]() The First World War is over and air mechanic Wally Shiers has promised to return home to his fiancée, Helena Alford. ![]()
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