Person

Millicer, Henry A.

Born
Poland
Occupation
Engineer

Summary

Henry A. Millicer designed the Millicer Air Tourer, a two-seat trainer, which won the Royal Aero Club design competition in 1953. He and two other Government Aircraft Factory employees built the first prototype in wood and sold the project and the prototype to the Victa Company, which built it in metal, beginning production in 1962. Millicer later further developed the basic design into the Aircruiser.

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  • Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_m.html. Details
  • McArthur, Ian, 'Chapter 16: Aeronautical engineering' in Sydney: from settlement to city: an engineering history of Sydney, Don Fraser, ed. (Crows Nest, New South Wales: Engineers Australia, 1989), pp. 299-318. Details

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