Ira “Taffy” Jones was a well-known air fighter during the First World War, having scored about 40 victories flying SE5 scouts in France with 74 Squadron. Well known in flying circles, Jones recorded stories drawn from his own experiences during the war and wrote of the many personalities he had met or known by association, both during the war and in the post-war flying years.

An Air Fighter’s Scrap Book recreates the atmosphere of the days of the biplane, of wartime flying, of early peacetime adventures in the air, the development of civil aviation, and breathtaking record beating flights, all evoking the sheer delight in flying that characterized those early years.

Preface

1. They Risked Their Necks
2. The Child—The Boy—The Youth
3. I Find a “Friend for Life”
4. The Legend of the “Mad Major”
5. Richthofen and His “Circus”
6. Builders of the Air Force Tradition
7. With the “Tiger Squadron”
8. Exploits of the Dawn Patrol
9. Distinguished Service Order—Buckingham Palace—Arrested
10. Private War in North Russia
11. Sea and Sand
12. H.R.H. The Prince Of Wales—Charles Longcroft—Sefton Brancker
13. Lawrence of Arabia
14. Six Happy Years and Au Revoir
15. A Few Things the War Taught Me
16. Rugger
17. Foes—but Heroes
18. Falcons of France
19. They Blazed the Transatlantic Trail
20. Heroines of the Air
21. Flyers Who Blazed World Air Trails
22. Civilian Transport and Imperial Airways
23. Believe It or Not
24. Bombers and the Next European War
25. Notes, by Norman Franks

"…lively and well told…a well done volume"