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Matanaka - Otago's First Farm
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Waitohi - Richard Pearse - Pioneer Aviator
Just out of Temuka on the way to Waitohi is a memorial to Richard Pearse on the site where he made his pionering powered flight before crashing into trees. Pearse's flight took place 9 months before the wright brothers' celebrated "first" powered flight though Pearse himself even admitted that his early attempt was not "sustained controlled flight".
| Richard William Pearce "This monument commemorates the first powered flight to be made by a British citizen in a heavier than air machine. Most evidence indicates this flight took place on 31st March 1903 and ended by crashing on this site." Richard Pearse official website |
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