Who is this Victorian man dangling from the ceiling?

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The smiling figure of a Victorian man dangles from two thin wires above the heads of visitors to the Otford Heritage Centre. It looks like he’s sitting in a flying goalpost, but he’s actually harnessed into the wooden frame of an early tri-plane. The man is Percy Sinclair Pilcher and his plane was called the Hawk.

Percy Sinclair Pilcher – early English aviator

Percy was born in Bath in 1876 and from an early age was fascinated by the thought of powered flight. In 1895, h...