Percy Sinclair Pilcher (16 January 1867 – 2 October 1899) was a British inventor and pioneer aviator who was his country's foremost experimenter in unpowered...

Percy William Pilcher (5 July 1866 – 3 May 1937), ARCO, was an organist, composer, and a railway photographer, who was one of the first in Britain to...

British police officer and criminal Percy Pilcher (1866–1899), British inventor and aviator Percy William Pilcher (1866–1937), Brittish organist, composer...

in the British Isles. She co-created and flew in gliders designed by Percy Pilcher, her younger brother, in the 1890s and is considered to be the first...

grip the "bar" for carrying and flying the hang glider. The A-frame of Percy Pilcher and Lilienthal echoes in today's control frame for hang gliders and...

Whitworth & Co., Limited and production moved to Newcastle upon Tyne. Percy Pilcher had died in a gliding accident in 1899, and Wilson had been working...

aviators who made similar flights at that time were Otto Lilienthal, Percy Pilcher, and Octave Chanute. Sir Hiram Maxim built a craft that weighed 3.5...

accidents List of firsts in aviation Otto Lilienthal, glider death Percy Pilcher, glider crash Daniel J. Maloney, glider death George E. M. Kelly, first...

balloon, setting a new world altitude record for human flight. 1895 Percy Pilcher makes his first successful flight in a glider named the Bat. Pablo Suarez...

times, including historical photos, a Percy Pilcher model, and a working model of a Kentish oast house. Percy Pilcher is often quoted as being the first...

William F. Trimble. 1899: Percy Pilcher of Bath, Somerset dies in October, without having a chance to fly his early triplane. Pilcher had built a hang glider...

a field just north-east of the village there is a stone monument to Percy Pilcher, a 19th century aviation pioneer who died in a glider accident at the...

Aug 10, 1896 Otto Lilienthal Oct 2, 1899 Percy Pilcher Jul 18, 1905 Daniel J. Maloney Sep 17, 1908 Thomas Selfridge Sep 7, 1909 Eugène Lefebvre Sep 22...

pioneers such as Jean Marie Le Bris, John J. Montgomery, Otto Lilienthal, Percy Pilcher, Octave Chanute and Augustus Moore Herring to develop aviation. Lilienthal...

people in particular were active: John J. Montgomery, Otto Lilienthal, Percy Pilcher and Octave Chanute. One of the first modern gliders was built by John...

before attempting motor-driven flight. The death of British aeronaut Percy Pilcher in another hang gliding crash in October 1899 only reinforced their...

(1848–1896) died from injuries sustained in a crash of his hang glider. Percy Pilcher (1867–1899) died after crashing his glider, having been prevented from...

Percy Pilcher took a growing interest in aviation and built a glider called The Bat which he flew for the first time in 1895. Later that year Pilcher...

Webb Pilcher, of Harrow, and his wife, Sophia (née Robinson). He was the eldest of five children (four surviving infancy); his younger brother, Percy, would...

aviators who made similar flights at that time were Otto Lilienthal, Percy Pilcher, and protégés of Octave Chanute. In the 1890s, Lawrence Hargrave conducted...

Aug 10, 1896 Otto Lilienthal Oct 2, 1899 Percy Pilcher Jul 18, 1905 Daniel J. Maloney Sep 17, 1908 Thomas Selfridge Sep 7, 1909 Eugène Lefebvre Sep 22...

a weir downstream, so a small lake is formed. The aviation pioneer Percy Pilcher built some of his early gliders here in the 1890s; he also built a powered...

he started a correspondence with British aviator Percy Pilcher. Following Chanute's ideas, Pilcher built a triplane, but he was killed in a glider crash...

Aug 10, 1896 Otto Lilienthal Oct 2, 1899 Percy Pilcher Jul 18, 1905 Daniel J. Maloney Sep 17, 1908 Thomas Selfridge Sep 7, 1909 Eugène Lefebvre Sep 22...

Nungesser Phoebe Omlie Clyde Pangborn John Lankester Parker Ivy May Pearce Percy Pilcher Francesco de Pinedo Albert Plesman Paul Poberezny Tom Poberezny Wiley...

Aug 10, 1896 Otto Lilienthal Oct 2, 1899 Percy Pilcher Jul 18, 1905 Daniel J. Maloney Sep 17, 1908 Thomas Selfridge Sep 7, 1909 Eugène Lefebvre Sep 22...

commemorates the spot. It was near Eynsford village (at Austin Lodge) that Percy Pilcher constructed and successfully flew lightweight gliders. On 30 September...

Aug 10, 1896 Otto Lilienthal Oct 2, 1899 Percy Pilcher Jul 18, 1905 Daniel J. Maloney Sep 17, 1908 Thomas Selfridge Sep 7, 1909 Eugène Lefebvre Sep 22...

a heavier-than-air aircraft pilot after Otto Lilienthal in 1896 and Percy Pilcher in 1899.[citation needed] 5 August – Nineteen-year-old Welshman Ernest...

Like Lilienthal, he documented and photographed his work. In Britain Percy Pilcher, who had worked for Maxim, built and successfully flew several gliders...