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- A Place & Date Depicted Mia Mia, Australia
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- A Person Depicted Mia Mia, Australia
- A Maker of Item Depicted Mia Mia, Australia
Negative - Pushing the Duigan Biplane Home Up Hill After a Flight, Spring Plains, Mia Mia, Victoria, 1910-1911
Reg. No: MM 057532
- Summary:
- Annotation in John Duigan's hand on obverse states : "Pushing it home up the hill Sometimes we used to run the engine instead"
- Description Of Content:
- Station hands at Spring Plains, Mia Mia push the Duigan biplane up a slope towards the specially built shed in which it was was built by John & Reg Duigan in 1910. This view shows the modified second version of the machine with rear elevator and wing tip ailerons.
| Discipline: | Technology |
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| Tagged with: | aero engines, aeroplanes, aeronautics, aviation, aviation pioneers, aircraft, aircraft propellors, biplanes, experimental aircraft |
| 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, 1910-1911 Photographer unknown. 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 John Duigan, Mia Mia, Victoria, Australia |
| Person Depicted: | Mr Reginald Duigan, Mia Mia, Victoria, Australia |
| Maker of Item Depicted: | Mr John Duigan, Mia Mia, Victoria, Australia, 1909-1910 |
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