Fifty years of Flying by Brewer. Griffith,

Hardback book, first edition, 170 pages, illustrated B/W plates, index.

More than the author's autobiography, it is a first-hand history of the development of flight by someone who took part in it. Starting with balloon ascents in 1891 and ending with his return from America in1941 in a Liberator bomber.

Griffith Brewer (1867-1948) was an English balloonist and aviator and a founder member of the Royal Aero Club. In 1908 he flew as a passenger with Wilbur Wright in a flight lasting 4 minutes and 22 seconds, thus becoming the first British person to fly in an aeroplane. He was President of the Royal Aeronautical Society, 1940-42.