Forgot to add his qualification
Stan, MRAeS. Emigrated to OZ from the Mother Country at the age of 16. Hargrave's best-known work was on engines and box-kites. The Gnome engine, patented in France, was based on his rotary engine of 1889; and his box-kites of the early 1890s formed the basis for the Santos Dumont aeroplane and the early Voisins. He never bothered patenting anything. Did most of his experimenting at Stanwell Park, you paying him rent
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