Talk:Basil George Watson

Further images
State Library of South Australia have a few more images of Basil and his planes: https://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au/search/d?Watson%2C+Basil+G.+%28Basil+George%29%2C+1894-1917 Jimmyjrg (talk) 00:10, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Jimmyjrg -- Thanks so much for the suggestion. The photos, with better resolution, have just been included in the "External images" section (and one of them, taken at Elsternwick is ambiguously described in such a way that it may be thought that it was taken at Mount Gambier), while the "artistic depictions" supplied are really of little use. Thanks, again.Lindsay658 (talk) 07:22, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your work expanding the article. Some of those images in the External Images section are also on Commons under his own category https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Basil_George_Watson. I uploaded them from Museums Victoria yesterday, but I also noticed the State Library Victoria has some of the same ones with slightly different dates. Jimmyjrg (talk) 23:11, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Houdini
Note that the considerable confused mess surrounding Houdini in relation to the false claims for his priority w.r.t. first-ever flight in Australia, and the consistently misrepresented dates of flights, distances flown, minutes airborne, etc. that abound in the derivative literature  has been cleared up by the simple process of examining the details of the objective, independent reports of the relevant events made at the time. Lindsay658 (talk) 02:53, 5 October 2022 (UTC)


 * @Lindsay658 Could this be moved to the Houdini article or Aviation in Australia? I'm not sure it's relevant to Basil Watson. Jimmyjrg (talk) 03:03, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
 * User:Jimmyjrg Done. Moved material to Houdini. Lindsay658 (talk) 06:00, 5 October 2022 (UTC)