Gang Gang: First Australian to double the sound barrier remembered

By David Ellery
Updated April 23 2018 - 11:24pm, first published May 15 2015 - 5:57pm

Jim Flemming, the first Australian to double the speed of sound, lived a life that could have been torn from the pages of a boy's own adventure book.

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