Richard Pearse
Centenary of Flight

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And this is part of the crowd that turned up despite everything. This photo was taken looking down the side of the Main Waitohi Road, the road on which Pearse made his flight attempt 100 years before. The organisers had it arranged so that the road was closed to traffic, the grass verge on one side of the road was lined for a 100 metres or so with straw bales for people to use as seating. The grass verge did a good job of transforming itself into a sea of mud.

 

 

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