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Sir Lawrence James WackettKBE, DFC, AFC (2 January 1896 – 18 March 1982) is widely regarded as "father of the Australian aircraft industry". He has been described as "one of the towering figures in the history of Australian aviation covering, as he did, virtually all aspects of activities: pilot, designer of airframes and engines, entrepreneur and manager".[1] He was knighted for his services to aviation and was a winner of the Oswald Watt Gold Medal. He was also a keen angler and wrote two books on the subject.
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Sir Lawrence James Wackett KBE, DFC, AFC (2 January 1896 – 18 March 1982) is widely regarded as "father of the Australian aircraft industry". He has been...
The Tugan LJW7 Gannet, also known later as the Wackett Gannet after its designer LawrenceWackett, was a small twin-engined airliner built by Tugan Aircraft...
its designer LawrenceWackett. "In acknowledgement of the CAC Manager's enormous contribution, the RAAF were to call the aircraft the Wackett Trainer" (although...
aircraft company, the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation. CAC, under Sir LawrenceWackett, began work on its own design, hoping to out-perform the Beaufort by...
purchased. This led to LawrenceWackett joining the company; he immediately became the General Manager. It is almost entirely due to Wackett's efforts that the...
Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) officers, led by Wing Commander LawrenceWackett, were sent on an overseas evaluation mission to inspect aircraft production...
events of the time. The Widgeon was designed by Squadron Leader Lawrence James Wackett as an academic exercise in his spare time during 1923. Late in the...
Warrigal I and II were Australian aircraft designed by Squadron Leader Lawrence James Wackett and built by the Experimental Section of the Royal Australian Air...
Australian aviator Air Vice Marshal Ellis Wackett (1901–1984), Australian military aviation pioneer Sir LawrenceWackett (1896–1982), Australian aircraft industry...
Air Vice Marshal Ellis Charles Wackett, CB, CBE (13 August 1901 – 3 August 1984) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Its...
LawrenceWackett who was an early trainee pilot at Point Cook and became the leading figure in Australian aircraft design and construction. Wackett moved...
AAC included Captains Adrian Cole, Henry Wrigley, Frank Lukis, and LawrenceWackett. Captain Hippolyte "Kanga" De La Rue, an Australian who flew with the...
units, they were not available in sufficient numbers. In late 1941, LawrenceWackett, Manager and Chief Designer of CAC, began examining the possibility...
Vertov, Polish-Russian director and screenwriter (d. 1954) 1896 – LawrenceWackett, Australian commander and engineer (d. 1982) 1897 – Theodore Plucknett...
of prominent aviation pioneers, including Lawrence Hargrave, Harry Hawker, Bert Hinkler, LawrenceWackett, the Reverend John Flynn, Sidney Cotton, Keith...
drops that had been developed by a team led by Australian Captain LawrenceWackett. Air attacks behind the line by Nos. 23, 41,and 209 Squadrons maintained...
Aircraft Supply Company and the Cockatoo Island Naval Dockyard under LawrenceWackett). In the late 1930s DHA began production of propellers both for the...
RMIT University. Retrieved on 18 November 2010. About Sir LawrenceWackett. Sir LawrenceWackett Aerospace Centre. RMIT University. Retrieved on 18 November...
devices Gerald Vultee (1900-1938) – engineer, founder of Vultee Aircraft LawrenceWackett (1896–1982) – "father of the Australian aircraft industry", lead designer...
develop an improved version of the Codock twin-engine aircraft that LawrenceWackett had designed and built for him while working for the Cockatoo Island...
of prominent aviation pioneers, including Lawrence Hargrave, Harry Hawker, Bert Hinkler, LawrenceWackett, the Reverend John Flynn, Sidney Cotton, Keith...
Information CRC for Plant Biosecurity Ergon Energy ROAMES Thales Sir LawrenceWackett Centre (RMIT) Politechnico di Torino Universidad Politecnica de Madrid...
L F Loder 1956 W Nimmo 1957 W H Connolly 1958 William Hudson 1959 LawrenceWackett 1960 D V Darwin 1961 A J Keast 1962 B B Lewis 1963 A W Knight 1964...
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