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Percival, Edgar Wikner (1897 - 1984)

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Aviator and Aircraft designer

Born: 23 February 1897 Albury, New South Wales. Died: 21 January 1984 London, England.

Edgar Wikner Percival built the winning entry in the 1924 Australian Aero Club competition to design a light aircraft. He used drawings supplied by H.E. Broadsmith (qv). Later, while working for the Bristol Aeroplane Company, he designed and manufactured the Percival 'Gull', a three-seater, low-wing cantilever monoplane.

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Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P003856. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: Rosanne Walker
Created: 25 May 2001
Modified: 2 August 2006

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