• 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
Hawaii. • 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 by the
Aero Club Federation of Australia. ==Bibliography==