Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 19:57:03 -1000 From: rock@netcom.com (Anne Rock) Message-Id: Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services Subject: Lawrence Hargrave Commemorative Association This announcement is courtesy of Steve Harvey (g8421248@uow.edu.au) LAWRENCE HARGRAVE COMMEMORATIVE ASSOCIATION ------------------------------------------- This year is the 100th anniversary of the famous Box Kite experiment on the beach at Stanwell Park, NSW, Australia. November 12,1894 was the day Hargrave made a seminal contribution to the history of manned flight when he was lifted 16 feet beneath four strung out box kites in a prevailing wind of 21 mph. We are justly proud of Lawrence Hargrave for his near life-long dedication towards mankind's achieving heavier-than-air powered flight. It's time that we told the rest of the World that we are, and that we are of the opinion that the man on the twenty dollar bill has been undervalued for far too long. Incidentally he comes off the note with his mate Sir Charles Kingsford Smith next July, but don't feel too sad as we at least hope to transfer him to the front page of the telephone directory as that "Great Achieving Australian Aeronautical Inventor". The Lawrence Hargrave Commemorative Association Inc. has been established and our patron is Air Marshal Sir James Rowland. During 1994 we intend to target the five countries where the Hargrave influence through his letters and papers to the Royal Society was of vital importance ... The UK, Germany, France, Canada and the United States. Across Australia we are tagging onto every aviation event we can, commencing with the Lawrence Hargrave World Hang Gliding championships which was held on the Australia Day Weekend in January. There are too many things to list here but two examples later in the year are the Lawrence Hargrave Great Across Australia Balloon Race, and also the World Kite Flying Championships at Stanwell Park Beach on 12-13 November. Anybody interested in joining the Association can do so by writing to: The Secretary The Lawrence Hargrave Commemorative Association Inc., 19 Stanwell Avenue, Stanwell Park NSW 2508 Australia Telephone +61 2 521 6000 and enclosing either AUS$50 for full membership or AUS$25 for a newsletter subscription. Eric Waite President = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =