Book review: Exploring the ordinary, adventurous heroes of the golden age of aviation

The Moth, a two-seater airplane launched by Geoffrey de Havilland in 1925, was central to many of the great aviation feats and records set over the next 12 years

Aircraft designer Geoffrey De Havilland in one of his planes; his dream was to design a plane that would be cheap enough for the common man to purchase. Picture: Getty

• Captain De Havilland’s Moth: Tales of High Adventure from the Golden Age of Aviation 
• Alexander Norman 
• Abacus Books, €29.00