Pioneering Flights
- 1933 – second pilot and navigator with Charles Kingsford Smith’s first commercial flight across the Tasman Sea from Australia to New Zealand and back.
- 1933 – navigator with Charles Ulm – Australia-England-Australia.
- 1934 – with Charles Kingsford Smith – first Australia-USA flight, via Fiji and Hawaiʻi.
- 1935 – navigator with Charles Kingsford Smith – Australia-New Zealand, flight aborted but returned safely after Taylor heroically, and six times, climbed along connecting strut to transfer oil from a disabled engine to the operating one – Taylor consequently awarded Empire Gallantry Medal (1937).
- 1939 – navigator with Richard Archbold on first flight across Indian Ocean – Australia-Kenya.
- 1944 – commander of survey flight Bermuda-Australia via Mexico, Clipperton Island and New Zealand.
- 1951 – South Pacific flight, Australia-Chile via Tahiti and Easter Island, Taylor consequently awarded the Oswald Watt Gold Medal.
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