Racing Ace

Samuel 'Kink' Kinkead won two DSCs with the Royal Naval Air Service, two DFC with the fledgling RAF and the DSO in Russia.

A brilliant pilot, post-war he was a long range aviation pioneer and leading racing ace selected for the international Schneider Trophy in Venice in 1927. Tragically he was killed aged just 31 in 1928 attempting to shatter the World Air Speed record. He is honoured by several memorials, at Cranwell, the RAF Club in Piccadilly, at Fawley and a permanent exhibition in the Kinkead Room at Calshot from where he set out on his final flight.

Julian Lewis has pieced together Kink's extraordinary story of achievement during his short but eventful and glamorous life. A fascinating account of flying derring-do in war and peace.

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Some books that may interest you

Journal of the Waterloo Campaign By: Cavalie Mercer	A Trenchard Brat at War By: Stuart Burbridge, Thomas Lancashire	An Alternative History of Britain: The English Civil War By: Timothy Venning
The Air Battle for Malta By: James Douglas-Hamilton	Control in the Sky By: L F E Coombs	Armageddon's Walls By: Peter Oldham
Flight Craft 13: The Gloster Meteor in British Service By: Martin Derry, Neil Robinson	Flying, Fighting and Reflection By: Peter Jacobs Foreword by: Sir Michael Graydon GCB CBE	Gotterdammerung: The Last Battles in the East By: Bob Carruthers