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George A. Taylor makes the first 'heavier than air' flight in Australia. 29 flights in total were made in 10-15 knot winds. -
Ehrich Weiss, also known as Harry Houdini, conducts the first controlled flight at Diggers Rest, Victoria. He made three flights and later made another two flights in Sydney. -
John Duigan designs and builds the first Australian aircraft to fly, based on a Farman biplane and powered by a four cylinder engine. By 1911 he had flown 60 times as far as 800m and at 20m altitude. -
L.R.J. (Jack) Jones built his first engine in 1907 and his first aircraft in 1909 with a steam turbine as a power plant. In 1911, Jones transported a new steam driven machine to Penrith where it lifted off and crashed. Jones later constructed Australia's first metal plane, the Wonga, in 1930. -
Frank Coles became Australias first aircraft passenger when Joseph Hammond took his mechanioc aloft.One month later, a Melbourne business man became Australia's first paying passenger when he made a 19km flight with Hammond. After purchasing one of Hammonds Boxkites, Parramatta dentist William Hart became Australia's first qualified pilot in November 1911. -
Frenchman Maurice Guillaux carried the first airmail from Melbourne to Sydney which was, at the time, the longest airmail delivery in the world.
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Maurice Guillaux arrived in Sydney with a Bleriot aeroplane making several flights, including the first "loop-the-loop" -
Lebbeus Hordern imported two hydro-aeroplanes, a Maurice Farman and a Curtiss, employing Maurice Guillaux to teach him how to fly. Guillaux then set a new altitude record for water planes (3150m)