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.
Percy 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
Wright brothers
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The Wright brothers, Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, were American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane. They made the first controlled, sustained flight of an engine-powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903, four miles (6 km) south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, at what is now known as Kill Devil Hills. In 1904 the Wright brothers developed the Wright Flyer II, which made longer-duration flights including the first circle, followed in 1905 by the first truly practical fixed-wing aircraft, the Wright Flyer III.
Image: Wilbur Wright crop
Wright brothers' home at 7 Hawthorn Street, Dayton about 1900. Wilbur and Orville built the covered wrap-around porch in the 1890s.
The Wright brothers' bicycle at the National Air and Space Museum