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Lawrence Hargrave

Lawrence Hargrave was born in Greenwich,England and migrated to Australia in 1883.He Sailed on a boat to get to Australia.He sailed to get back with his dad who was getting a job in Australia.

Lawrence got to Australia because his dad had been living in Australia for a while and he was now seen as an Australian so Lawrence did the exact same thing as his father and became an Australian citizen.

He was the fist man in Australia to fly a plane.

Lawrence is on the $20 note.

To fly the first plane in Australia Lawrence made four box kites and attached a seat to them.When the wind blew he managed to float five metres above the ground.After he flew he started making engines for planes and he invented a flapping plane.He unfortunately died of blood-poisoning in 1915. There are places named after him and there is a memorial of him at Stanwell Park in New South Wales.Without Lawrence Hargrave Australia might not have as much of an understanding of aircrafts as we do.