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Bill Moyes OAM b. 1 January 1932

  • Designer (Industrial / Product Designer)
Moyes is an aeronautics designer, apprenticing in electrical engineering, then becoming an automobile electrician working from his own garage. He was part of a movement that developed and improved the hang-glider with first flights in ca.1967, touring the glider in the USA, then internationally.
Tags: hang glider, aeronautics
  • Biographical Data b. 1 January 1932 Bronte, Sydney, New South Wales
  • Biography 1 biography
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  • received
    FAI Gold Air Medal
    Dates
    2014
    Recognition type
    Award
  • received
    Order of Australia (OAM)
    Dates
    1998
    Recognition type
    Award
  • received
    Sport Australia Hall of Fame
    Dates
    1992
    Recognition type
    Award
    Website
    https://sahof.org.au/hall-of-fame-member/bill-moyes/
  • received
    Queen Elizabeth Anniversary Silver Medal, 1977
    Dates
    1977
    Recognition type
    Award
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Updated Nov. 2, 2024
Created May 1, 2012
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