Download or read book A Flying Life written by David Crotty and published by Museum Victoria. This book was released on 2010 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The flying career of John Robertson Duigan spanned just a decade from 1908 to 1918. 100 years ago he built and successfully flew the first aeroplane made in Australia using only photographs, journal articles and an unreliable textbook as his guides. He was the first Australian to fly a powered Australian-made aeroplane in Australia. The full story of John Duigan and his flying career has now been published for the first time. An article about the flying career of John Duigan is featured here in The Age