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Kiwi Flight Before the Wright Brothers?

Posted by michael on from the stealing-the-glory dept.

houseofmore writes "The Toronto Star is is reporting that New Zealander Richard Pearse may have very well made several flights beginning almost nine months before the Wright Brothers ever got off the ground. It also notes that "Mad Pearse's" machine was in some ways more advanced than the first Wright Flyer."

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  1. Anglo-saxon ethnocentrism? by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 2, Troll
    Is it the well-known anglo-saxon ethnocentrism that prevents them from looking elsewhere, say like France, where Clément Ader built working, powered aircraft as early as 1890?

    The french word for "airplane", Avion, was coined by Clément Ader in 1894. Many years before the Wright brothers would turn a propeller.