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Aviation pioneer who built one of the earliest, heavier-than-air flying machines.His first airplane is rumored to have become airborne weeks before the Wright Brothers took their famous flight.The Peter Jackson-produced mockumentary, "Claimed," dealt with the rivalry between Pearse and the Wright Brothers.
BEFORE FAMEHis early attempts at flying were hindered by engines that were too weak to effect anything more than a hopping motion.
PERSONAL LIFEHe grew up in Temuka, New Zealand.
FUN FACTSPilot Richard Pearse were born on Monday, birthstone is Turquoise, the seaon was Fall in the Chinese year of , it is 331 days until Richard Pearse next birthday.
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