The Aeronautical Work of Lawrence Hargrave. Curved Vs Flat Wings, Man-Lifting Boxkites (Part Two).

Printed in 1937 by the Sydney Technological Museum, Ultimo ; NSW Board of Education.

50 years ago I was given this Pamphlet, after the Stonehenge Schoolhouse closed (which it did in 1968).

During 1969 my parents were collecting Victorian & Edwardian Bric-a-Brac for the Land of the Beardies History House & Museum which they were instrumental in helping to set up ; and they returned from a weekend outing focused on Schooldesks, and because I was "mad-keen" on Aeroplanes...., when they found this in a Cupboard they snaffled it, diverted it, and presented it to me as a curiosity.

I think I'd read my first Biggles Book, and I did have one Aviation History Textbook, and at age 3 my grandfather had taken me to the Tech. Museum at Ultimo ...; so at the time I regarded this Pamphlet as being the veritable "Mother Lode" of Aerodynamical Back-Story.

Strange to tell, but Sir Charles Kingsford Smith did once land, and camped for several days, on the Beardy River Flat beside the Stonehenge Schoolhouse, in a Paddock which was part of the Fakes Farm, from which the Schoolyard had been substracted when the School was built.

Young Neville Fakes, a student at Stonehenge, managed to make himself useful riding Messages for Smithy, and was duly repaid with a Joyride in The Southern Cross, before the big Fokker Trimotor flew away.

The episode made a big impression, in that in 1939 Neville Fakes was a Student in the first Course offered by Sydney University, in Aeronautical Engineering ; he graduated in 1942 & joined the RAAF.

In his old age he gave me a few pointers on Propeller-Carving & Wind Turbine Rotors..., he had worked under Wackett, doing Wind-Tunnel Studies on Propellers for the Wirraway.

Neville Fakes graduated from Stonehenge Public School to go to Glen Innes High School in about 1932...; so for this 1937 Pamphlet on Aerodynamics to have been obtained for the School goes to show how much of an influence a Forced Landing could have within a Rural Community.

7 years later the Primary School was teaching University-level Aeronautical History.

To those who wonder why I publicised my SunFoil Project Results on YouTube rather than making any attempt to patent anything - I say ; you can thank Lawrence Hargrave for showing me the propper way for an Inventor or Innovator to conduct themself.

Such is Life,

Have a good one.

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Ciao !

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