Percy Pilcher
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Percy Pilcher
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Percy Sinclair Pilcher was a British inventor and pioneer aviator who was his country's foremost experimenter in unpowered flight near the end of the nineteenth century. After corresponding with Otto Lilienthal, Pilcher had considerable success with developing hang gliders. In 1895, he made repeated flights in the Bat, and in 1896–1897 many flights in the Hawk culminated in a world distance record. By 1899, Pilcher had produced a motor-driven triplane, which he planned to test at Stanford Hall i
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British inventor and aviator (1867–1899)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Pilcher
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2024-04-12T04:34:34Z
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