Its for a project but ANYTHING is suitable

A New Zealander, Richard Pearce got a heavier-than-air machine into the air 14 months and another 9 months before Wilbur and Orville did. But being a friendly and polite NZer (as we all are) he allowed the Wright Brothers to take the fame because, he said that they were capable of controlling their plane, and he could not control his in the air. He crashed every time. So he forfeited the kudos.

His 3rd plane is at Motat (Museum of Transport and Technology) in Auckland. The flaps on the wings that he invented are still the basic design for what is used today. His mistake was that he fitted them to the leading edge, rather than the trailing edge of the wing.

It is illegal to wander the streets at night with your face blackened, and it is lawful to take a leak in the street provided that you maintain one hand on the rump of the horse while you leak, and you aim for the ground where the horse would leak onto. (Police Offences Act 1906)

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