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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 describe observing Pearse flying and landing a powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, nine months before the Wright brothers flew.
May 29, 2019 · A contemporary of the Wright brothers, Richard Pearse's innovations in aviation were ahead of their time, but also almost lost to history. He lived in New Zealand and deserves to be...
Richard Pearse’s first patented invention, dating from 1902, was an ingenious new style of bicycle, bamboo-framed with a vertical-drive pedal action, rod-and-rack gearing system, back-pedal rim-brakes and integral tyre pumps.
Dec 8, 2000 · Richard Pearse: self-taught inventor, prophetic designer, trail blazing aviator, and eccentric visionary, a modern-day Icarus from down under who, against incredible odds, ingeniously sought the sun and pioneered powered flight
Richard Pearce (born January 25, 1943) is an American film director, television director and cinematographer. In addition to feature films, he has directed made-for-TV movies and TV series.
Richard Pearse was not the only early New Zealand do-it-yourselfer to be bewitched by the possibilities of heavier-than-air flight. In 1909-1911, Gore resident Francis Potter built a plane from Oregon pine in a woolshed on the family’s Kelso farm.
A replica of the aircraft designed and built by Richard Pearse, a young farmer with no formal engineering training but with remarkable analytical aptitude and genius, stands as a memorial to his pioneering engineering achievement.
