Story: Aviation
Early aviator Richard Pearse achieved folk hero status in New Zealand, and his fame is celebrated in this stamp produced in 1990. In the early 1900s Pearse constructed a flying machine, and briefly achieved flight in 1902 and 1903. The record for the first sustained flight, however, was claimed by the American brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright in 1903.
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