Hinkler,+Bert

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 * Name of the Person -** HERBERT JOHN LOUIS HINKLER


 * When and where they were born -** Hinkler was born on 8 December 1892 at Bundaberg, Queensland. He was the son of John William Hinkler, a German-born stockman, and his wife Frances Atkins, née Bonney.


 * Early family life -** He worked in sugar-mills and the foundry at Bundaberg; then briefly visited Brisbane seeking other aviation enthusiasts. There he joined the Queensland Aero Club of 1910 and the Aerial League of Australia. An application to join the new aviation section of the Australian army was rejected.

Hinkler completed an aerial gunlayer's course in 1916 and was posted to No.3 Wing, R.N.A.S., escorting bombers in Sopwith '1½ Strutters' from Luxeuil and Ochey near Nancy, France. When the wing was disbanded in June 1917 the crews went to other units and for several months Hinkler flew on night raids in Handley-Page bombers.

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 * What maded him famous -** In February 1928 Hinkler made the first solo flight to Australia in G-EBOV and won fame. This flight took him just over 15 days.
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 * Early family life -** As a boy, he studied the flight of ibises. Later, he tried to fly by strapping wings to his back. At the age of 19, he successfully flew his homemade glider to a height of 33 feet (10 meters).
 * What made him famous -** Albert 'Bert' Hinkler, an Australian aviator, made the first solo flight from Britain to Australia in 1928. He made the flight in a single-engine Avro Avian aircraft in 151/2 days. After the flight, which broke five aviation records, the Australian government made him an honorary squadron leader. ||
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 * Early family life -** The son of a mill worker, he was fascinated by flight. In 1911and 1912, he built man-carrying gliders and flew them successfully at Mon Repos Beach near Bundaberg.

[] || Chronological reference to people and experiences that influenced the person explaining how they influenced them. || **Experiences that influenced him -** He found work with a photographer at Gympie and soon became interested in aviation. He worked in sugamills and the foundry at Bundaberg; he then briefly visited Brisbane seeking other aviation enthusiasts. There he joined the Queensland Aero Club of 1910 and the Aerial League of Australia.
 * What made him famous -** His most renowned achievements include his pioneering solo flight from England to Australia in 1928 and the first solo flight across the South Atlantic in 1931. ||
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Learning mechanics by correspondence in 1911, he built two gliders in 1911-12. The second design was based on his own observation and analysis, including photographs, of ibises in flight.

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 * People who influenced him -** When the American airman Arthur Burr Stone brought his Bleriot monoplane to Bundaberg in 1912, Hinkler became his mechanic on a tour of southern Australia and New Zealand. Coping with the numerous mishaps to Stone's plane confirmed Hinkler's grasp of construction fundamentals. ||
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 * ^  || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;"> **Experiences that influenced him -** || **1910** || Aero Club was formed in Brisbane by Lindsay Campbell and Bert Hinkler becomes a proud member. ||
 * **1911** || Bert attends a meeting of the Aerial League in Brisbane, the Aero Club is discontinued, and Bert builds glider number one. At Christmas, Bert begins construction of glider number two. ||
 * **1913** || In August Bert returns to Bundaberg, and later goes to Sydney, the point from which he "worked his passage" to England. ||
 * **1914** || At Easter Bert arrives in England and obtains work on the bench with the Sopwith Company. In September Bert enlists in the Royal Naval Air Service. ||
 * **1917** || In December Bert is in England after active service as an Observer/Air Gunner in France and Belgium, and is awarded a Distinguished Service Medal (DSM). ||
 * **1918** || Bert trains as a pilot and is posted to Number 28 Squadron in Italy, and then becomes involved in the war against Austria. ||
 * **1919** || Bert undertakes a post-war rehabilitation course at AV Roe & Co, working "on the bench" but with the right to fly the company’s own aircraft. ||
 * **1920** || On 31 May, Bert makes his meritorious flight - London to Turin, non-stop in his 35hp Avro Baby. He then returns to London and is awarded his first Britannia Trophy, later resolving to ship his Avro Baby to Australia. ||
 * **1921** || On 11 April, Bert makes a record-breaking long distance flight from Sydney to Bundaberg. On 27 April, the Avro Baby is damaged on its return flight by strong winds after a beach landing north of Newcastle, in New South Wales. In May, Bert departs Australia, while his beloved Avro Baby remains. ||
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 * **1925** || Bert becomes a reserve pilot for the British Schneider Cup team in the United States of America. ||
 * **1927** || Bert tests autogyros for Don Juan la Cierva, and makes a significant long-distance flight in his Avro Avian G-EBOV to Latvia. Bert later makes an aborted attempt on the England-to-India flight record with RH McIntosh in a single-engined Fokker. ||

[] || [] || Bert Hinkler was educated at North Bundaberg State School. || [] || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;"> || Hinklet flew form London to Turin non-stop in 1920.
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 * **1912** || In April Bert flew his glider on Mon Repos beach, with the glider later displayed at the Bundaberg and Brisbane Shows. Bert hooked up with American pilot AB Stone on a projected tour of southern states and New Zealand. ||  ||
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Hinkler 's first solo flight to Australia in 1928 proved an unexpected financial success when the Australian government gave him £2000. He was made an honorary squadron leader in the Royal Australian Air Force Reserve and was awarded the Air Force Cross.

Hinkler returned to England via Canada and until 1926 was chief test pilot for the Avro company at Hamble. In December 1922 he tested the Avro Aldershot, the first plane powered by a 1000-horsepower engine. He won the light aircraft trials at Lympne in 1923 in a monoplane motor-glider and in 1924 the Grosvenor Challenge Cup.

In 1925 he was reserve pilot for the British Schneider Trophy team at Baltimore, United States of America, and in 1927 he flew his Avro Avian G-EBOV non-stop from London to Riga, Latvia, receiving a Latvian decoration.

He also tested autogiros for the Spanish designer, Juan de La Cierva, in 1927 and, to secure funds for a flight to Australia, made an unsuccessful attempt with R. McIntosh on the London to India air record.

He was awarded the Royal Geographical Society of Australia Medal 1928 and the Air Force Cross (AFC) 1928 as well as numerous other awards.

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Utility Cup - Bristol Air Pageant -June. De Prez Cup- Bristol Air Pageant - June. Golden Eagle Breast Decoration of the Air Force of Latvia - London/Riga -August 26. Awarded Oswald Watt Medal 1927. || Thompson Foundation Gold Medal for services to science of aviation. Gold Medal presented by the Institute of Surveyors. Diamond wristwatch for Nance Hinkler from Australian Theatre Business. AFC (Air Force Cross) - in recognition of distinguished service rendered to aviation by his solo flight in a light aeroplane from England to Australia. Gold cigarette case presented by Prime Minister Hon. S.M.Bruce, bearing the Australian Coat of Arms. Platinum and diamond brooch showing a kangaroo leaping across the world from England to Australia - presented to Nance Hinkler by Sir Charles Wakefield at the Savoy Hotel, London. Britannia Challenge Trophy - for England to Australia flight, Feb 1928. Oswald Watt Medal 1928. Federation Aeronautique International Gold Medal - presented in Copenhagen for England/Australian flight of 1928. || Oswald Watt Medal for South Atlantic flight. - 1931. Royal Aero Club Gold Medal for the South Atlantic flight - 1931. Britannia Challenge Trophy - for South Atlantic crossing - 1931. || The Johnston Memorial Silver Plaque - for South Atlantic crossing -1931. Oswald Watt Medal. ||  || [] || [] || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;">Well known persons working at the same time. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;"> Nancy Bird Walton and Sir Charles Kingsford Smith were contemporaries of Bert Hinkler. || [] || [] || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;">Why is their life regarded as significant and why they are admirable. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;">His closest associates described Hinkler as a man without fear, an ideal aerial companion, a man without pretensions who achieved without fuss, and a flying genius. He was 5 ft 4 ins (163 cm) tall. The prominent Queensland flyer Maude Rose Bonney, who married his cousin, is said to have been inspired by a flight with him. || [] || H is role as reserve pilot in the 1925 British Schneider Trophy team bears witness to the esteem in which he was held as a test pilot. A part from company or syndicated aircraft, Bert Hinkler had machines which he acquired in his own right; in some cases prototypes modified to his own design. In all, five aircraft are linked to his life of private aviation endeavour. || [] || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;">Establishes when and where the person died and the effect their work and values had on people. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;"> **Where and when the person died -** Hinkler died in Italy on 7 January 1933 on a flight from England to Australia. An Italian enquiry was held into his death and a separate enquiry by an air force officer sought to establish the causes of the crash. His finding that the crash was caused by the loss of a wing in flight was contradicted by eye-witnesses who found the wing against the tree which had knocked it from the plane. Independent investigation establishes that Hinkler attempted an emergency landing after the loss of a propeller blade in flight.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica;">**1917** || Awarded D.S.M. for flying performances as aerial gunner in bombers during First World War in France. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica;">1920 ** || Britannia Challenge Trophy for flight in Avro Baby G-EACQ - May 1920. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica;">1924 ** || Grosvenor Challenge Cup - Avro 562 Avis - Lympne Light Aircraft Trials. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica;">1927 ** || Killjoy Cup - Bournemouth Air Races, April. Also won Hotels Handicap & Holiday Handicap.
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica;">1928 ** || Royal Geographical Society of Australia/Asia Medal.
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica;">1931 ** || Moroccan Cross presented at Casablanca Aero Club, by French Commissioner, for South Atlantic crossing - 1931.
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica;">1932 ** || Segrave Memorial Trophy - for South Atlantic crossing - 1931.
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[] || [] || Opened in December 2008, the Hinkler Hall of Aviation is Australia’s newest tourist attraction and aviation adventure experience. More than a museum, the Hinkler Hall of Aviation celebrates pioneer solo aviator Bert Hinkler and the wonders of innovation, spirit and adventure. Comprising a soaring exhibition hall, featuring multi-media exhibits, a flight simulator, the ‘Globe Theatre’, five aircraft and the historic Hinkler House, the Hinkler Hall of Aviation, in the tropical surrounds of the Bundaberg Botanic Gardens, provides you with an enjoyable and interesting adventure, where you and your family become part of the story. || [] ||
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