Folklore holds that in 1903 Canterbury based farmer Richard Pearce pipped the Wright Brothers at the post and made the world’s first powered flight in an aircraft. The Classic Flyers Aviation Museum has just installed a full-sized replica of the Pearce flyer painstakingly reconstructed over 15 years by late Auckland engineer Ivan Mudrovcich. Museum head Andrew Gormlie joins Jesse to talk about their flyer and its history.
Photo: Classic Flyers museum
