'Australian-Built Aircraft and the Industry' available to purchase

An encyclopaedic, four-volume work on every aircraft type proposed, designed, or manufactured in Australia from 1884 to the mid-1980s!

Keith Meggs has completed the first volume of an encyclopaedic, four-volume work on every aircraft type proposed, designed, or manufactured in Australia from 1884 to the mid-1980s.

The Royal Aeronautical Society Australian Division contributed some of the funds to assist Keith in the completion of the book and is pleased to see volume one now available to the general public.

Members are encouraged to consider purchasing a copy for the home or office.

The four volumes in the series cover every-known powered aircraft designed or built, from Lawrence Hargrave's experiments in the 1880s through to ultra-light aircraft in the mid-1980s. The work lists over 540 aircraft types as well as detailed histories of the companies involved in their construction. Coverage is multi-faceted, being technical, operational, historical, industrial, sociological, biographical, and political.

Each volume contains the most comprehensive collection of photographs, technical drawings, and diagrams yet assembled into the one reference work, many of which have never before been seen outside the original source.

In VOLUME ONE the fourteen chapters cover the following activities: Hargrave, Taylor, the Commonwealth Prize, Early Experimenters, Duigan, WWI Activity, AA&ECo, 1924 Lightplane Competition, LASCo, QANTAS, WAA, RAAF Randwick, Individual Builders 1918-1939, AMSCo, MSB, Matthews Aviation, General Aircraft Co, Cockatoo Dockyard, Tugan Aircraft, Harkness & Hillier, De Havilland (Aust) - part 1, Industry proposals, and other snippets.

The flyer and order form is available to download here.