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Negative - Duigan Biplane, First Version with John & Reg Duigan, Spring Plains, Mia Mia, Victoria, Jul 1910
Reg. No: MM 057529
- Description Of Content:
- Photograph of Reg (left) and John Duigan at Spring Plains station near Mia Mia in central Victoria with the first Australian-built powered aircraft. This view shows the first version of the machine in mid-1910 with twin mid-wing 'balancing planes' (ailerons) and marked wing dihedral. There is also a large fixed foreplane in front of the wing. The aeroplane is positioned on a creek flat below the homestead. On the opposite side of Pohlman's Creek, to the left of this image, John and Reg Duigan conducted their flying trials in 1910-1911.
| Discipline: | Technology |
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| Tagged with: | aero engines, aeroplanes, aeronautics, aviation, aviation pioneers, aircraft, aircraft propellors, biplanes, experimental aircraft, dogs |
| Themes this item is part of: | Designing & Building the First Australian Aircraft, John Duigan's Military Service, Centenary of Australian Aviation, John Robertson Duigan MC, Pioneering Aviator (1882-1951), Reginald Charles Duigan, Pioneering Aviator & Inventor (1888-1966), Engineering Collection, Transport Collection |
| Primary Classification: | AIR TRANSPORT |
| Secondary Classification: | Aircraft |
| Tertiary Classification: | propeller biplanes |
| People Depicted: | Duigan, John R.; Duigan, Reginald C. |
| Format: | Negative: Black & White |
| Place & Date Depicted: | Mia Mia, Victoria, Australia, circa Jul 1910 Test flights took place on the creek flats opposite the homestead on the Duigan family property 'Sping Plains', near Mia Mia, central Victoria. |
| Person Depicted: | Mr Reginald Duigan, 1910 |
| Person Depicted: | Mr John Duigan, 1910 |
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