Samuel Kink Kinkead won two DSCs with the Royal Naval Air Service two DFC with the fledgling RAF & the DSO in Russia.A brilliant pilot post-war he was a long range aviation pioneer & 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 & a permanent exhibition in the Kinkead Room at Calshot from where he set out on his final flight. Julian Lewis has pieced together Kinks extraordinary story of achievement during his short but eventful & glamorous life. A fascinating account of flying derring-do in war & peace.