Departure for England
Maker
Ogilvie, Bertram
Current rights
Public Domain
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About this object
A photograph of passengers on a lighter in the Napier Harbour.
Presumably this is a group farewelling Bertram Ogilvie and Arthur Hawkins leaving for England where they planned to undertake further flight and aeronautical trials. This would have been some time after Lord Kitchener visited New Zealand and encouraged Ogilvie and Hawkins to go to England.
Bertram Ogilvie is thought to have been the first man to pilot a powered aeroplane in New Zealand. He was the inventor of the principle of ailerons. While an employee of the firm of Hawkins and Rome, engineers in Hastings, he pioneered the construction of an aeroplane which incorporated the principle of ailerons. Attempts to launch the machine into the air on the beach near Napier did not meet with success, but after further trials the machine was got into the air and the aileron principle proved a great success.
The Hawkins-Ogilvie machine was devised on the passage to England and later constructed by Handley Page. It has ailerons connected by an automatic balancing device, a 7.6 metre span and a four cylinder 50 hp water-cooled Alvaston engine. After initial problems with the engine the plane was a success. The automatic balancing apparatus was patented.
Photographer, unknown.
Date, between 1907 and 1911.
The photograph was possibly taken in 1910 or 1911.
Presumably this is a group farewelling Bertram Ogilvie and Arthur Hawkins leaving for England where they planned to undertake further flight and aeronautical trials. This would have been some time after Lord Kitchener visited New Zealand and encouraged Ogilvie and Hawkins to go to England.
Bertram Ogilvie is thought to have been the first man to pilot a powered aeroplane in New Zealand. He was the inventor of the principle of ailerons. While an employee of the firm of Hawkins and Rome, engineers in Hastings, he pioneered the construction of an aeroplane which incorporated the principle of ailerons. Attempts to launch the machine into the air on the beach near Napier did not meet with success, but after further trials the machine was got into the air and the aileron principle proved a great success.
The Hawkins-Ogilvie machine was devised on the passage to England and later constructed by Handley Page. It has ailerons connected by an automatic balancing device, a 7.6 metre span and a four cylinder 50 hp water-cooled Alvaston engine. After initial problems with the engine the plane was a success. The automatic balancing apparatus was patented.
Photographer, unknown.
Date, between 1907 and 1911.
The photograph was possibly taken in 1910 or 1911.
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Black and white photograph glued onto card in an album. The album has a hard green linen cover with Sunny Memories printed on the front.
Media/Materials
Measurements
Height x Width: 73 x 97mm
Height x Width: 182 x 137mm
Height x Width: 182 x 137mm
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Subject period
Subject date
1907-1911
Current rights
Credit Line
gifted by Mr L M Goodger
Other number(s)
10974, 5147, 629.13 Goo, 80925
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