The Australian Division of the RAeS was invited to be a founding member of the Committee and is exploring ways to support the Foundation's purpose. He presented six cellular kites and a soaring machine to the Aeronautical Society where in May he addressed a good audience, with Pilcher in the chair and Maxim, Baden-Powell and most other prominent members present. Our attention has been drawn to the Lawrence Hargrave Website from the Engineering Library at Monash University. It contains interesting information about this famous Australian. Australian Division Annual Lecture Prize Lecturers to the Branches have the opportunity to submit their work for this annual award.
Conditions applying are available from the Branches.
Lectures submitted are also eligible for consideration for inclusion in Australian Aeronautics. Following recent television coverage there has been excellent response to the request for information. Although the primary fuselage, wing platform and tail assembly appear to change very little there were literally thousands of modifications carried out by the five manufacturing plants. The interior of the aircraft being restored differed considerably to any of the surviving B-24s still extant around the world. Sadly they have virtually no information for complex systems such as the Bendix Radar and Radio systems, the Loran Navigation system or the oxygen systems.