Richard Pearse
(1877-1953)
New Zealand aerospace engineer
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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 afterward claimed that Pearse flew and landed a powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, nine months before the Wright brothers flew. Documentary evidence for these claims remains open to interpretation and dispute, and Pearse himself never made such claims. In a newspaper interview in 1909, he said he did not "attempt anything practical ... until 1904".
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Richard William Pearse 3 December 1877 Temuka, New Zealand
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29 July 1953 (aged 75) Sunnyside Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand
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