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Richard William Pearse (3 December 1877 – 29 July 1953) was a New Zealand farmer and inventor who performed pioneering aviation experiments. Witnesses interviewed many years afterwards describe observing Pearse flying and landing a powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, nine months before the Wright brothers flew.
Billed as the youngest licensed aviator in the United States, he made his first flight of the day at 3pm, after having had some engine trouble. Flying his biplane in front of 12,000 spectators, the plane fell from 100 feet (30 m) into the Northern Pacific railroad cut north of the fairgrounds because of a strong downwind.
This Farman-type biplane made a short flight on 16 July 1910, but Duigan never considered this to be a fully controlled flight. He regarded his longer flight of 7 October 1910 as his first successful attempt. This was followed by ever longer and higher flights.
A 9th-century polymath covered himself with feathers and wings, [28] and “flew faster than the phoenix in his flight when he dressed his body in the feathers of a vulture” (c. 875). [10] Karl Jatho: 3 Feb 1873 8 Dec 1933 Germany Design Construction Aviator Propeller: Made an “aerial leap” (18 meters) in a powered airplane (18 Aug 1903 ...
First flight of a flying wing airplane: was made by the Chyeranovskii BICh-3 in 1926. [167] First successful flight of a glider tow plane: was made with a Raab-Katzenstein RK.6 Kranich flown by Kurt Katzenstein, towing a Raab-Katzenstein RK 7 Schmetterling glider flown by Antonius Raab on April 13, 1927. [168] [169]
Two Lovely Beasts and Other Stories (1950) Dúil (1953) The Pedlar's Revenge and Other Short Stories (1976, but written much earlier) His best-known short story is The Sniper. Others include Civil War, The Shilling, Going into Exile, Night Porter, [29] A Red Petticoat, and His First Flight [30] – about the nervousness before doing something new.
The prototype airship LZ 1 (LZ for "Luftschiff Zeppelin") had a length of 128 m (420 ft), was driven by two 10.6 kW (14.2 hp) Daimler engines and balanced by moving a weight between its two nacelles. Its first flight, on 2 July 1900, lasted for only 18 minutes, as LZ 1 was forced to land on the lake after the winding mechanism for the balancing ...
Two months later, on January 18, 1911, Ely landed his Curtiss Pusher airplane on a platform on the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay. [ nb 2 ] Ely flew from the Tanforan Racetrack in San Bruno, California , and landed on the Pennsylvania , which was the first successful shipboard landing of an aircraft.