The Harry Ferguson Monoplane was the first Irish heavier-than-aircraft to fly, designed by Harry Ferguson and built by his brother’s company. This scrapbook outlines Leslie Hanna’s reconstruction of the aircraft in the 1980s for a Newcastle festival; it contains black-and-white photographs, handwritten notes, and stories from his daughter’s perspective. Contents: photographs of the plane’s parts with descriptions; photographs of the museum exhibition; hand-drawn engineering drawings; a photocopy of ‘Aeroplane Monthly’ (Sep. 1973); plane materials sheet; sheet drawings of the aircraft; a picture of Leslie Hanna reconstructing the plane; polaroid photographs with notes; a newspaper clipping on the plane reconstruction in Newcastle; a photograph of Evelyn Martin at the reconstruction with notes; old prints of the plane; newspaper articles on the festival and plane (1980); a coloured photograph of the full model; a front-page news article on Leslie Hanna (Nov. 1986); The Ferguson Aeroplane drawing; a disc of ‘Harry Ferguson the man who could fly.’ Newspaper articles recalling the festival (1980).
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