Yeah. Great programme. Admittedly they took a few liberties - while I'm prepared to believe that Pilcher would have filled in those gaps in the wings early on, the idea that Pilcher would have fitted a seat was a bit of a leap of faith.
And of course the engine they used to run it probably weighed a lot less than any engine of the day.
But the guy who flew it sounded like he had fun, even if he did prang it on the first go!
I'd never heard of Pilcher before, but he definitely deserves a place in the books as one of the 'nearly men'.
At times in history certain ideas become inevitable and many people try to make those ideas bear fruit. Many of those are the nearly men - people who very nearly get their names in the history books but don't quite make it. Pilcher was definitely one of those guys.