Flying Machines, April 1909-June 1915

 
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File 4
Content Summary:

M370 (pp1-81):The last volume in the series of aviation 'journals' contains some papers relating to Hargrave's continued research on flying-machines. Most of the papers, however, relate to aviation generally, including the design and construction of aircraft, airships, air routes, aerial exhibitions, air safety and the Aerial League of Australia. There are also papers relating to Hargrave's efforts to dispose of his collection of models, which ended when they were acquired by the Deutsches Museum in Munich in 1910.

The first part of the volume, covering the period April 1909-February 1913, includes letters from S. Henry Barraclough (Sydney), Sir Edmund Barton (Sydney), T.F. Begg (Sydney), Prof. T.W. Edgeworth David (Sydney), H. Deane (Sydney), W.M. Garling (Sydney), H.W.L. Moedebeck (Munich), C.F. Richmond (Sydney), Norman Selfe (Sydney), Bruce Smith (Sydney), G.C. Taylor (Helsby and London), George A. Taylor (Sydney), A.W. Vogan (Sydney), Emile Wenz (Reims), Jean Wenz (Melbourne), Prof. Albert Zahn (Washington), the Aerial League of Australia, the Astronomical Society of Great Britain, the Deutsches Museum (Munich) and the Technological Museum (Sydney).

In addition to letters, there are research notes, calculations, newspaper cuttings and photographs. There is a reprint of a paper by Hargrave, 'Rigid stable aeroplanes' (Dec. 1909), published by the Royal Society of New South Wales.

There is an index at the beginning of the volume.

M371 (continued, pp 82-99):The final part of the volume, dating from March 1913 to June 1915, contains correspondence, drawings, newspaper cuttings and photographs. The correspondents include T.W. Heney (Sydney), Ernest Hosking (Sydney), E.A. Petherick (Melbourne), Prof. J. Arthur Pollock (Sydney), George A. Taylor (Sydney), Emile Wenz (Reims), the Aerial League of Australia, the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain and the Deutsches Museum. Hargrave's own letters include many sent to newspapers.

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M370-M371

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