THE FIRST BRISTOL BOX KITE AIRCRAFT TO FLY IN AUSTRALIA, BEING FLOWN OVER GEELONG BY J.J. ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne, Point Cook
Accession Number P00588.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Leckie, Harry Victor
Place made Australia: Victoria, Geelong
Date made 1911
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

THE FIRST BRISTOL BOX KITE AIRCRAFT TO FLY IN AUSTRALIA, BEING FLOWN OVER GEELONG BY J.J. HAMMOND. THIS TYPE OF PLANE WAS ADOPTED IN 1914 FOR THE TRAINING AT POINT COOK OF OUR FIRST WARTIME PILOTS. (DONOR: R.H. LECKIE)