Richard Pearse
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richard-pearse-163-7533226
title:
Richard Pearse
text:
Richard William Pearse was a New Zealand farmer and inventor who performed pioneering aviation experiments. Witnesses interviewed many years afterward describe observing Pearse flying and landing a powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, nine months before the Wright brothers flew. Ambiguous statements made by Pearse himself make it difficult to date the aviation experiments with certainty. In a newspaper interview in 1909, with respect to inventing a flying machine, he said "I did no
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New Zealand farmer, inventor and aviation pioneer
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pearse
date created:
2003-03-27T09:14:42Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T06:50:41Z
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