Air Carnival
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Event names | Air Carnival |
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Event type | show |
Country | AU |
Locations | Sydney |
Start date | 1910-12-24 |
Number of days | |
Tech focus | |
Participants |
eight days
Australia's first air show ; first documented/observed heavier-than-air powered controlled flight in Australia, by Eric Weiss aka Harry Houdini (!)[1]
(Weiss is credited by some with making the first airplane flight in Australia, on 18 March 1910. Russell Naughton calls this the first "controlled" flight in Australia.)[2]
References
- ↑ Chronicle of Aviation, p83
- ↑ Russell Naughton, "Harry Houdini", Hargrave, 1998-2007.