Books by Bill Taylor include:
- 1935 – Pacific Flight
- 1937 – VH-UXX
- 1939 – Call to the Winds
- 1948 – Forgotten Island
- 1953 – Frigate Bird
- 1963 – The Sky Beyond
- 1964 – Bird of the Islands
- 1968 – Sopwith Scout 7309
Pioneering flights are recalled in his books. Those with Charles Ulm and Kingsford Smith highlighted.
- 1933 second pilot and navigator with Charles Kingsford Smith’s first commercial flight across the Tasman Sea from Australia to New Zealand and back.
- 1933 – navigator with Charles Ulm – Australia-England-Australia.
- 1934 – with Charles Kingsford Smith – first Australia-USA flight, via Fiji and Hawaiʻi.
- 1935 – navigator with Charles Kingsford Smith – Australia-New Zealand, flight aborted but returned safely after Taylor heroically, and six times, climbed along connecting strut to transfer oil from a disabled engine to the operating one – Taylor consequently awarded Empire Gallantry Medal (1937).
- 1939 – navigator with Richard Archbold on first flight across the Indian Ocean – Australia-Kenya.
- 1944 – commander of survey flight Bermuda-Australia via Mexico, Clipperton Island and New Zealand.
- 1951 – South Pacific flight, Australia-Chile via Tahiti and Easter Island, Taylor consequently awarded the Oswald Watt Gold Medal.
In 1963 he took part in the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s television film, An Airman Remembers (Clip 2)