Talk:Harold Gatty

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Citizenship Question[edit]

Gatty was offered American citizenship and the newly created position of Senior Aerial Navigation Engineer for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Gatty expressed his wish to remain an Australian citizen and Congress passed a bill allowing foreign citizens to hold that post.

I've let the highlighted words stand because they make sense. However, technically, there was no such thing as "Australian citizenship" until 26 January 1949. Prior to that date, all Australians were British subjects, despite being subject only to Australian law. If anyone has any comment on this, please discuss. -- JackofOz 01:35, 22 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On reflection, I thought it better not to mislead by suggesting that Australian citizenship existed back then, and have amended the sentence. -- JackofOz 10:33, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Inventor[edit]

A previous version of this article asserted that Gatty was an inventor. This assertion was removed as Australian Dictionary of Biography does not attribute that feature to him. On the other hand, the Popular Mechanics reference from 1931 refers to his "drift sight" as an invention, though apparently it was still under development. If Gatty filed a patent for the drift sight he may be an inventor after all. Further, the Popular Mechanics article mentions collaboration with Philip Weems on a bubble sextant. Weems advertised bubble sextant literature in the 1950s in Flying Magazine. This too could be an invention to which Gatty contributed his skill in development. However, with the sources found so far the evidence for Gatty's status as inventor falls short, though his technical expertise is evident in his achievements.Rgdboer (talk) 02:49, 8 December 2014 (UTC) Correction: Weems.Rgdboer (talk) 02:54, 8 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]