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The Plane taxied for a considerable distance, keeping to the centre of the road. Pearse then accelerated, and the machine rose sluggishly into the air, sounding ’rather like a chaffcutter’. It was travelling at an estimated 30kph, with a peak altitude exceeding 3 metres.
The Pearse Utility Plane is a two-seater monoplane with a hybrid propeller/rotor mounted at the front. The propeller has variable pitch, and the engine could operate as either 2-stroke or 4-stroke. It is a tubular metal structure with a light fabric covering which has been painted.
Richard Pearse (1877–1953) 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. Fly Pearse's plane!
The Flights. Mch 31, 1902 - First powered flight. Estimated distance around 350 yards. Similar to the first Wright Brothers flight, ie, in a straight line, and barely controlled. Mch ? 1903 - After spending a year working on the engine, and tending to his farm, Pearce made another flight, this time with a distance of only about 150 yards.
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.
