Newsletter – Page 3 – Aviation Historical Society of Australia

1984 Edgar Wikner Percival, pilot and aircraft designer, died on 21 January 1984. Percival has strong claims to be recognized as the most widely respected Australian aircraft designer. He was a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, the Institute of Marine Engineers and the Royal Society of the Arts, and was a founder-member of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators. He never married and lived in Curzon Street, London, until his death.

AHSA Newsletter Vol. 32, No. 3, July 2016