by Keith Raymond Meggs, DFM, AM(US)
An encyclopaedic, four-volume work on every aircraft type proposed, designed, or manufactured in Australia from 1884 to the mid-1980s!
Aircraft enthusiasts, pilots, aeronautical engineers, manufacturers, industrialists, universities, and other technical institutions, Australian-Built Aircraft and the Industry is a must have for your reference library.
Exhaustively researched over the past 40 years by the well-known aviation personality Keith Meggs, a man uniquely placed to write on all aspects of Australian aviation from construction through to operational flight.
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.
All volumes are superbly indexed and cross-referenced with the main text reinforced by extensive and detailed endnotes.
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.
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