Previous winners have included Charles Kingsford Smith, Bert Hinkler, Reg Ansett, Henry Millicer, Andy Thomas and Sqn Ldr Paul Simmons. The equipment can fly 500 km for one tank filling. The tank is located at the back of the seat and is easily accessible. The hang-glider has one fuel tank of the capacity 42.5 litres. The Oswald Watt Gold Medal is named after Lt Col Oswald Watt who served in the First World War with the Aviation Militaire and the Australian Flying Corps.Īfter he drowned off Sydney in 1921, his will revealed a bequest for an award to "The most brilliant performance in the air or the most notable contribution to Aviation by an Australian or in Australia." In October 2015, the company JOKERTRIKE introduced for the first time the gyroplane Joker together with the engine hang-glider at the aviation exhibition. Honorary Life Membership of the British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Associationĭickenson can now add Australia's highest aviation honour to his trophy cabinet.Honorary Life Membership of the Hang Gliding Federation of Australia.Inductee into the Space Technology Hall of Fame The popularity of paragliding arose when pilots in the French town of Mieussy successfully launched the wing by running down the hillsides of the Alps.The US Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association Presidential Citation.Previous recognition for Dickenson has been: In August and September of 1896, Chanute and Herring went to the Indiana Dunes. Its design was based on Otto Lilienthal’s prior work on hang gliders. Between 19601962 Barry Hill Palmer used this concept to make foot-launched hang gliders, followed in 1963 by Mike Burns who built a kite-hang glider called Skiplane. Thousands of people world-wide now enjoy hang gliding thanks to Dickenson's pioneering work. This flying machine was a hang glider with a biplane design that was built in 1896 by three American aviation pioneers: Octave Chanute, William Avery, and Augustus Herring. ![]() No other aircraft in history, it is said, is easier to build or fly as Dickenson Wings. Hang glider inventor John Dickenson was awarded the Oswald Watt Gold Medal at the Safeskies Conference in Canberra on Tuesday.ĭickenson invented the modern hang glider, which launched the sport in Australia in 1963. Abbas Ibn Firnas invented the first manned weight-shift aircraft (hang glider) in 875, fixing feathers to a wooden frame that was fitted to his arms or back.
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