High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The so-called Duigan pusher biplane or often simply the Duigan biplane was an un-named early aircraft which made the first powered flight by an Australian-designed and -built machine when it flew in Victoria in 1910. The aircraft was constructed by John Duigan with help from his brother, Reginald, on their family farm at Mia Mia. The effort was especially significant in that the brothers built the aircraft almost entirely by themselves and without input from the pioneering aviation community; a photo-postcard of the Wright Flyer inspired the design and Sir Hiram Maxim's book Artificial and Natural Flight provided the theoretical basis.

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