December - Bruce Cowan, on early pilots and air machines

​​Our speaker in December was Bruce Cowan, a Benalla based glider pilot, who spoke about early pilots and attempts to make heavier than air machines stay airborne. He started with early optimists who flung themselves off high towers with minimal winged attachments and often fatal results. Then he progressed with more successful kite and glider pilots, who were often successful in Germany; then later with the Wright brothers and their dubiously acknowledged success, as the first successful powered aeroplane pilots with their Wright flyer.

Bruce Cowan chatting after class with Sky's the Limit member Brent Bailey

For Tuesday 6 February at 2pm, local model aircraft builder Roly Gaumann, will talk about and later show us examples of his life work of building and often competitively flying model aeroplanes.
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David Palmer and Andrew McFarlane