Beyond Lion Rock

This is an account of the growth of one of the world's international airlines. From the early days when two pilots started a supply route across the Himalayas in a battered war surplus DC3 to the present day when almost five million passengers a year are carried between 35 countries. The airline grew from the dream of a Texan war hero, Roy Farrell and an Australian air ace, Syd de Kantzow, who met while tiger-hunting in Bengal. The dream became reality when Farrell touched down in his beloved "Betsy" with a cargo of morning coats and toothbrushes from New York. In a post-war world hungry for commodities, their enterprise flourished and grew; soon "Syd's pirates" were flying routes throughout the Far East, facing every kind of danger and discomfort, from civil war to the first air hi-jacking in history.