Richard Pearse Fact File

Name: Richard William Pearse

Date Of Birth: 3 December 1877

Nationality: New Zealand

Occupation: Aviator 

Date Of Death: 29 July 1953

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Facts

Richard Pearse Never Married.

He was sent to a mental hospital when he became very paranoid

There was a debate whether or not Pearse was actually the first person to fly a plane because of the Wright brothers. The Wright brothers were the first people to record and share their experience of creating a plane.

Richard pearse was said to be ahead of his time because he added motorised engines in his plane so that it could run further than someone having to do too much.

During his life Richard faced a lot of hardships involving his planes. First he criticised if he actually was the first person to create a plane because he never recorded his flights. He also never tried to brag about his works because he was a modest man, this is also why he was always told that he wasn’t the first to create the first planes. He overcame this by not talking about his studies to anyone and talking it upon himself to create the plane all by himself. He flew in public so if people wanted to watch they could.