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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.
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Pilcher's Hawk glider, restored after his fatal crash, on display in the National Museum of Scotland
The hang glider Hawk, 1897. Shown might be Miss Dorothy Pilcher, Percy's cousin who was towed in a flight.
Monument near Stanford Hall, Leicestershire at the point where Pilcher crashed his glider (the monument is actually located just across the county boundary in Northamptonshire)
Funerary monument, Brompton Cemetery, London
Replica of the Bat in Glasgow's Riverside MuseumScientists born in the 1860s 6
About this person
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1866 to 1899 · aged 33
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