Download or read book Open Cockpit over Africa written by Victor Smith and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-06-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intimate account of what it was like to fly open-cockpit, single engined aircraft over the length and breadth of primitive Africa in the early 1930s has been written by one of the pioneers of the African air-routes, Victor Smith. Smith is in fact the last of that intrepid breed of pilots who risked their lives, and their machines, in a determined bid to open up the Darkest Continent and to reduce traveling times between Africa and Europe.