Papers of Keith Raymond Meggs
Title | Papers of Keith Raymond Meggs PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Raymond Meggs |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | Air pilots |
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Collection comprises research notes, drafts, correspondence, and 16 mm films relating to Keith Meggs' books titled 'Australian-built aircraft and the industry' (volume 1-3). The publications contain information on every aircraft type proposed, designed, or manufactured in Australia, from 1884 to the mid-1980s. Keith Meggs published several authoritative works on Australian aviation and is internationally recognised for his contributions to aviation and its recorded history.
Australian-built Aircraft and the Industry
Title | Australian-built Aircraft and the Industry PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Raymond Meggs |
Publisher | |
Pages | 632 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Aircraft industry |
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"An encyclopaedic, four-volume work on every aircraft type proposed, designed, or manufactured in Australia, from Lawrence Hargrave's experiments in the 1880's, through to the authors self-imposed cutoff point in the mid-1980's. The four-volume 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, and political. Along with the text is 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. 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. All volumes are superbly indexed and cross-referenced with the main text reinforced by extensive and detailed endnotes. 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. 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."--Provided by publisher.
Australian-Built Aircraft and the Industry - Volume 2
Title | Australian-Built Aircraft and the Industry - Volume 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Raymond Meggs |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1826 |
Release | 2020-07-16 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780646996554 |
History of the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation and the aircraft it designed and built.
New York in the Revolution as Colony and State
Title | New York in the Revolution as Colony and State PDF eBook |
Author | New York (State). Comptroller's Office |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | New York (State) |
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Alumni History of the University of North Carolina
Title | Alumni History of the University of North Carolina PDF eBook |
Author | University of North Carolina (1793-1962) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 992 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | North Carolina |
ISBN |
Australia, a Cultural History
Title | Australia, a Cultural History PDF eBook |
Author | John Rickard |
Publisher | Longman Publishing Group |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Abstract of North Carolina Wills
Title | Abstract of North Carolina Wills PDF eBook |
Author | J. Grimes |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 674 |
Release | 2018-03-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781983639784 |
Published in 1910, this volume contains an abstract of North Carolina wills. Compiled from original and recorded wills in the office of The Secretary of State.