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Disused building. St. Peter's Seminary, Cardross, Glasgow.

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September 13th 1895 saw the first successful controlled glider flight in the British Isles made by Percy Sinclair Pilcher at Wallacetown Farm, Cardross, when he rose 12ft in a 45lb monoplane he built himself.

As any schoolboy knows, the first powered flight was by the Wright brothers at Kittyhawk in 1903. However in the final years of the nineteenth century the Scottish based English aviation pioneer, Sinclair Pilcher, conducted many experiments with gliders at Kirkton Hill in Cardross. His first machine, the Bat, made history when it flew successfully from a hill overlooking the Firth of Clyde at Cardross.

With his fourth machine, the Hawk, Pilcher was able fly for a record-breaking 228m (250 yards) from a field in Kent. This caused a sensation, making Pilcher the undisputed leader in the field of unpowered flight.

The original Hawk has survived and is in the collections of National Museums Scotland. Sinclair Pilcher was working on a powered plane and was ready to demonstrate it to a group of onlookers in1899 but the engine crankshaft had broken and, so as not to disappoint his guests, he decided to fly the Hawk instead. The weather was stormy and rainy, but by 4 pm Pilcher decided the weather was good enough to fly. Whilst flying, the tail snapped and Pilcher plunged 10 metres to the ground: he died two days later from his injuries with his triplane having never been publicly flown.

Had the crank-shaft not broke we might have never heard of the Wright Brothers and the inventor may very well have went down in history for the first powered flight.

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