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well, makes sense, we were the first to fly.... http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/pearse1.html http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/pearse1.html

• adventured 9y ago
  There's essentially zero strong evidence for the timeline actually being correct. That has always been the problem with Pearse. Nothing was recorded, and there were no observers. Further, Pearse admits he was not the first to achieve flight. "In two letters, published in 1915 and 1928, the inventor writes of February or March 1904 as the time when he ‘set out to solve the problem of aerial navigation’. He also states that he did not achieve proper flight and did not beat the American brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright, who flew on 17 December 1903." https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/richard-pearse https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/richard-pearse