April 2020
Percy Pilcher
Friday 11 Nov 2016 at 7:30pm
Blisworth Village Hall
Blisworth Heritage Society © 2020
Drawing from Patent Application for
a Powered Hawk Glider with 4hp
Engine 1897
The man who was flying gliders 8 years
before the Wright Brothers and who
had a powered aeroplane built and
ready to fly in 1899, 4 years before the
Wright brothers. But for a tragic
accident in Northamptonshire he
could have been world famous.
Smithsonian Books
1987
