Books by Sir P.G. Taylor


Darragh Christie, 25 October 2021 · #


Books by Bill Taylor include:

  • 1935Pacific Flight
  • 1937VH-UXX
  • 1939Call to the Winds
  • 1948Forgotten Island
  • 1953Frigate Bird
  • 1963The Sky Beyond
  • 1964Bird of the Islands
  • 1968Sopwith 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)


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