Aeroplane designed and built by Archibald Richardson with Harold Eagle and Leslie Hankie, 1916 / pho...
Aeroplane designed and built by Archibald Richardson with Harold Eagle and Leslie Hankie, 1916 / photographs collected by Harold Eagle
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1916
Call Numbers
PXB 449 , ON 429
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
6 photographic prints - 12.5 x 16.7 cm or smaller - gelatin silver
4 negatives - 12 x 16.4 cm (half of 1 negative missing) - glass
1 p. textual materials - A3 - printed
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Fonds
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created befroe 1955
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Physical Access Conditions
Access to this pictures collection via appointment only. Please submit your request through Ask a Librarian : ON 429
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Scope and Contents
Contents
PXB 449 (photographic prints)
1. Harold Eagle in the cockpit of the aeroplane in the backyard of the house in Burwood Road, Enfield (which adjoined the brickyard where the aeroplane had its preliminary tests), early 1916
2. At Richmond, late 1916; left to right: Harold “Curly” Eagle with hand on wheel, Archie Richardson, person unknown to N...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Aeroplane designed and built by Archibald Richardson with Harold Eagle and Leslie Hankie, 1916 / photographs collected by Harold Eagle
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Richardson's twin row rotary aero engine is radial and balanced utilising Newton’s third law of motion - every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
It has two contra-rotating timber propellers. The outer section, crankcase and cylinders are mounted in a cradle, free to revolve, to which a propeller is attached. This propeller is left hand...
Date note
Dated by the donor
Published information
ON 304/no. 2 and PXB 449/no. 1 published in: “Flying into history – 58 years late”, Aeroplane Press, vol. 32, no. 24, Wed 12 June 1974
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Mr Norman Eagle, 1977
Pic.Acc.3889
Administrative / Biographical history
The twin row rotary aero engine was designed by Archibald (Archie) Richardson (b. 1886?) probably in 1912. The engine was not a copy of existing technology although it used parts already available to cut costs.
In 1913, Richardson, together with his brother Mervyn and friends Harold Eagle, Leslie Hankie (b. ca 1894) and Ted Sparks, built an aer...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXB 449 , ON 429
Record Identifier
YK5QdzMn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YK5QdzMn
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Reference code
824708
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