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Old 10th Jun 2014, 05:40
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As of Nov. 2, 1909, Richard Pearse had not performed any flight
... apart from several in 1903, with the longest being ~900 metres as mentioned before.
That article is probably of his 2nd or 3rd machines which came a few years later.
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