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- Duigan_pusher_biplane abstract "The Duigan pusher biplane (often simply called the Duigan biplane) was an early aircraft which made the first powered flight by an Australian-designed and built machine when it flew in Victoria in 1910. The aircraft was constructed by John Duigan with help from his brother, Reginald, on their family farm at Mia Mia. The effort was especially significant in that the brothers built the aircraft almost entirely by themselves and without input from the pioneering aviation community; a photo-postcard of the Wright Flyer inspired the design and Sir Hiram Maxim's book Artificial and Natural Flight provided the theoretical basis. The aircraft was an open-framework machine with a three-bay, equal-span, unstaggered wing cellule. Horizontal stabilisers were carried to both the front and rear, with a single rudder above the rear surface. A fixed tricycle undercarriage was fitted, and the pilot sat on the leading edge of the lower wing. Lateral control was by ailerons on both upper and lower wings, and an elevator was attached to the rear stabiliser. The only components not built by the Duigans themselves were the engine (made by the J. E. Tilley Engineering Company of Melbourne) and the propeller. However, both of these components were extensively modified by John before they could be used.The aircraft flew for the first time on 16 July 1910, taking off under its own power and flying 7 metres (24 feet). Within two months, this had been extended to 90 metres (300 feet), and soon thereafter to 180 metres at an altitude of 3.5 metres (590 ft at an altitude of 12 ft). By the end of the year, Duigan had made a flight of 1 km (⅝ mile) at an altitude of 30 metres (100 ft). Duigan informed the Department of Defence of his achievements, hoping to claim a £5,000 prize that had been offered in September 1909 for the construction of an aircraft suitable for military purposes. Duigan was ineligible for the prize, which had expired at the end of March 1910, but was asked to demonstrate his aircraft for the military anyway. He also flew it in a public demonstration in front of a crowd of 1,000 spectators at Bendigo Racecourse in January 1911. In 1920, Duigan donated the aircraft to the Industrial and Technological Museum of Victoria, which was later absorbed into Museum Victoria. Museum Victoria also preserves a flying replica of the Duigan biplane, built by Ronald Lewis and flown in 1990. It was donated to the museum in 2000.".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane designer John_Robertson_Duigan.
- Duigan_pusher_biplane manufacturer John_Robertson_Duigan.
- Duigan_pusher_biplane numberBuilt "1".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane wikiPageExternalLink details.aspx?img=3&Path=3&ID=15.
- Duigan_pusher_biplane wikiPageExternalLink www.duigancentenaryofflight.org.au.
- Duigan_pusher_biplane wikiPageExternalLink 1911%20-%200502.html.
- Duigan_pusher_biplane wikiPageExternalLink concise_history.htm.
- Duigan_pusher_biplane wikiPageID "15961494".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane wikiPageRevisionID "559555037".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane crew "One pilot".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane designer John_Robertson_Duigan.
- Duigan_pusher_biplane eng1Hp "25".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane eng1Kw "19".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane eng1Number "1".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane eng1Type "custom-built water-cooled straight-4".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane firstFlight "1910-07-16".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane grossWeightKg "285".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane grossWeightLb "630".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane hasPhotoCollection Duigan_pusher_biplane.
- Duigan_pusher_biplane lengthFt "35".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane lengthIn "0".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane lengthM "10.67".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane manufacturer John_Robertson_Duigan.
- Duigan_pusher_biplane maxSpeedKmh "64".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane maxSpeedMph "40".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane metOrEng%3F_ "met".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane numberBuilt "1".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane spanFt "24".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane spanIn "6".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane spanM "7.47".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane type "Experimental aircraft".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane wingAreaSqft "210".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane wingAreaSqm "19.5".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane subject Category:Australian_experimental_aircraft_1910–1919.
- Duigan_pusher_biplane subject Category:Single-engined_pusher_aircraft.
- Duigan_pusher_biplane type Aircraft.
- Duigan_pusher_biplane type MeanOfTransportation.
- Duigan_pusher_biplane type Product.
- Duigan_pusher_biplane type Model_airplane.
- Duigan_pusher_biplane type DesignedArtifact.
- Duigan_pusher_biplane comment "The Duigan pusher biplane (often simply called the Duigan biplane) was an early aircraft which made the first powered flight by an Australian-designed and built machine when it flew in Victoria in 1910. The aircraft was constructed by John Duigan with help from his brother, Reginald, on their family farm at Mia Mia.".
- Duigan_pusher_biplane label "Duigan pusher biplane".
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- Duigan_pusher_biplane sameAs Q5312638.
- Duigan_pusher_biplane sameAs Q5312638.
- Duigan_pusher_biplane wasDerivedFrom Duigan_pusher_biplane?oldid=559555037.
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