Monthly Archives: October 2011

Wind Beneath his Wings LAWRENCE HARGRAVE AT STANWELL PARK Wind Beneath his Wings: AUD$16.00 Lawrence Hargrave is generally regarded as one of the foremost contributors to the development of the  aeroplane. When the Wright brothers flew in 1903, and then, shortly after, the French, they used many of the ideas developed and circulated by Hargrave. The extraordinary achievement of Hargrave was that he worked alone in a remote country, Australia, and for a long time did his best work in …