Norman MacMillan (pilot)

Wing Commander Norman MacMillan, OBE, MC, DL (9 August 1892 - 5 August 1976) [ [http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/scotland/macmillan.html Aerodrome profile: Norman MacMillan] ] born Glasgow, Scotland was a pilot and author.

He served during World War I on the Western Front in 1917-18 with the RFC and RAF, flying Sopwith Camel aircraft, claiming eleven victories. He would write about these experiences in his book "Into the Blue".

Following the Great War, he and Geoffrey Mallins made an unsuccessful attempt to fly around the world (see August 1922 events in aviation).

According to his obituary which was published in The Times newspaper on Wednesday, Aug 11, 1976, he made the first flight London to Sweden in one day. It also stated that he was also chief test pilot for Fairey Aviation Co. (1929-30) and Armstrong Siddeley Development Co. (1931-32).

Bibliography

*"Best Flying Stories"
*"An Hour of Aviation"
*"Wings of Fate - Strange True Tales of the Vintage Flying Days" ISBN 0-7135-0692-X
*"Royal Air Force in the World War, Volume 1 1919 - 1940 ; Aftermath of War, Prelude to the Blitzcrieg, the Campaign in Norway"
*"The Romance of Flight"
*1928: "The Art of Flying"
*1958: "Great Airman from the Wrights to the Rocket Age"
*1960: "Great Aircraft"
*1963: "Tales of Two Air Wars"
*1964: "Great Flights and Air Adventures"
*1969: "Into The Blue"

References

ee also

* The Digital Times - obituary, 11 August 1976 [http://web3.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/692/122/114097909w3/purl=rc1_TTDA_0_CS237731595&dyn=3!xrn_9_0_CS237731595&hst_1?sw_aep=free4_tda]
* [http://www.frontiersmenhistorian.info/world.htm The Frontiersmen Historian: "The World-Flight Expedition of 1923"]