Australian philanthropist, Sir Edward Hallstrom, based in Sydney, was well known, amongst other things, for the design, development, production and marketing of the Hallstrom series of refrigerators, which became a by-word for efficiency at the time.
This light aircraft was designed and built by Bryan Gabriel at Holbrook, NSW. It is an approximately 70-percent scale model of a North American P-51D Mustang built of all metal construction and fitted with a converted Mercury six-cylinder Vee outboard engine.
The F-14 Tomcat for many years was one of the most potent interceptor / fighters in the armoury of the US Navy and saw combat on a number of occasions operating from aircraft carriers of the US Fleet.
This was a one-off homebuilt gyrocopter built around the cockpit section of a Robinson R-22. The machine is fitted with a tricycle undercarriage and was fitted with a Subaru EJ25 engine driving in a pusher configuration behind the cockpit, being fitted with a three-blade Ivo 1.93 m (76-inch) propeller.
Work on an 80% scale all alloy scale replica of the Grumman F-8 Bearcat was commenced in Western Australia in about 2010, the aircraft to be fitted with a new 269-kw (360-hp) Vedeneyev M-14P radial engine driving a four-blade MT propeller.
This aircraft was registered on 5 March 2013 as VH-NZG³ (c/n 2009-1). It was built by Robert Grigson of Strathfieldsaye, Vic. and is fitted with an Aero Sport Power IO-375-M1B engine driving a Whirlwind Aviation 200RV propeller.
In about 1916 during World War I James Hayden of Narromine, NSW built a light aircraft on his property Acton along the lines of a Bleriot XI with wing warping and powered by two converted motor-cycle engines coupled and driving a single propeller.
J Thomas Grant of Dunedin, NZ designed and built and 75% scale replica of a World War I Albatros D.V fighter, build time being in the order of three and a half years.
The Hawkeye is an ultralight aircraft designed and built by its owner as a one-off aircraft. It was designed as a scale replica of the Piper L-4 observation aircraft and when completed was painted in an overall green colour scheme and markings of a US Army Air Force aircraft in
This was an ultralight aircraft built by a number of members of the Gold Coast Ultralight Club at Tallabudgera. At least one example was registered with the RAA on 18 December 1989 as 10-1177 and this aircraft was fitted with a Zenoah G-50 engine.
This aircraft was a homebuilt light aircraft built in a terrace house at Redfern in Sydney before World War II. A press report in the Daily Telegraph from April 1910 described it as the “First Australian-Built Aeroplane”.
The TH1 is a single-seat light aircraft built at Leom, New Zealand, in the 1980s. It was one of the first indigenous-designed light aircraft to be completed in New Zealand and is said to be based on the design of the North American P-51 Mustang.
Following the announcement of Henry Kremer in the United Kingdom inviting interested parties to design and build an aircraft to make the first successful flight of a man powered aircraft.
This aircraft was noted at an air-show at Aero Pelican, Belmont, NSW in September 1964. The machine was unfinished and was said to have been submitted to the Army Inventions Commission in 1943.
The Kermit was a single-seat ultra-light aircraft designed and built in Australia and made its first flight in 1999. It was fitted with a Rotax 503 engine driving a Sweetapple two-blade propeller.
Very little is known about this aircraft. It was first registered with Recreation Aviation Australia on 4 December 2008 but nothing further is known about it.
Little is known about this aircraft. It is a scaled down Piper J-3 Cub designed and built by the owner and is a single-seater and is painted overall yellow and is powered by a Rotax 277 engine.
Mr Jones was the lecturer in charge at the East Sydney Technical College when classes were held in the 1930s in relation to aircraft design and construction and he himself was involved in the design and construction of a number of aircraft of his own design, and with the assistance
In July 1988 it was announced a Swedish inventor of the World’s first cardboard aircraft “which is also radar-proof and fire-resistant”, was setting up business in Australia.
Early in the 20th century Mr A W Jones went to England and obtained his pilot’s licence. On his return in 1913 he imported a Caudron G.II fitted with a 26-kw (35-hp) to 30-kw (40-hp) Anzani engine.
This was an ultra-light aircraft which was registered with the RAA as 10-1477 and was registered from 22 September 1995 until 16 January 1999 when it was retired.
Terrence Kronk over the years, before his tragic loss in an aircraft crash, was involved in the construction of a number of scale replicas of aircraft, and these included a Spitfire Mk 26 , North American P-51 Mustang and a Fw-190A.
The Joey was probably one of the first powered gliders in Australasia, and was designed and built in Australia by Keith Jarvis of South Australia and placed in production.
In May 2003 Mr Lance Watson gave evidence to the Australian House of Representatives Transport and Regional Services Committee of a proposal by his Company to develop an aircraft able to serve remote communities at ‘bus fare prices’.
The Hummingbird is a high-performance gyrocopter designed and built in Brazil at Joinville, which is between Florianopolis and Curitaba on the south Brazilian coastline.
Mr Mac McKenzie is a gyrocopter enthusiast on the north island of New Zealand and in about 2007 commenced the construction of a 70 percent replica of the Cierva C.30 gyrocopter, examples of the original full-scale machine being flown in a number of countries around the world in the 1930s,
Mr McKenzie, a New Zealander, designed and partially built a biplane along the lines of an early French Breguet, the latter having been placed on display at the Olympia Aero Show in London In March 1909.