Striking Example of What Has Been Done in the Continent Colony: Remarkable Performances by "Digger" Fliers By "Wanatan" the "North-
China Daily News" of the 11th instant headed "The Schneider Cup") snd the subsequent correspondence jin that connection only served to, prove that, despite the ever-inereasting interest in aviation, the gen-feral public from leader-writers down to laymen have a very] Jeursory Knowledge of the science fend of its pioneers.
Bearing in mind the opening Jsentences of the editorial and with no other aim in view but to render "honour to whom honour is clu brief sketch of the part that Australian have taken in aviation will fuct be amiss.
Speak of the genesis of aviation in the street and ho the Wright brothers: Eat to the student such honours were won by those American pioneers must be shared with an Australian, Lawrence Hargraves, whose claims to such recognition rest on "his man-lifting box kite models now housed, be it said with shame, in the German National] Aviation Museum. Hearing of the exploits of Hargraves with his models the Wright brothers wrote to him asking permission to us his patents, 'The reply they received was' typical of the man, "Go ahead, you're free to use my' designs. I'have no patents." From that date might the history of! modern aviation begin. thereby complicating the issue of British and American machines In 1919, Hawker, with Lt.-Cmdr. K. Grieve, essayed the Atlantic} Might from Newfoundland to Ire-and using a Sopwith biplane Griven by a single 360-horse-power Rolls-Royce 1?-cylinder engin Petrol sufficient for 31 hours was carried. How the aviators were forced down in mid-Atlantic and were lost to the world for a week provides one of the most thrilling chapters in aviation,
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