Pilcher Collection

Pilcher boat with umbrella sail

Percy Pilcher Drawings
Percy Pilcher Drawing Date: 19th century

Pilcher Hawk Glider early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

Percy Pilcher
Percy Sinclair Pilcher (1866 - 1899), British inventor and pioneer aviator

Percy Pilchers fatal flight 1899
Photographs showing Pilcher ready to start and in mid flight on his invention the Gliding machine. On 30th September 1899, the weather was wet and stormy

Crashed coach, Old Kent Road, SE London
Special Services at the site of a crashed coach in the Old Kent Road, SE London, 28 January 1955. The coach had crashed into the end wall of a fried fish shop. There were no serious injuries

Pilcher Hawk after restoration with new fabric 1964
Pilcher Hawk after restoration with new fabric, 1964. Date: 1964

Pilcher Hawk

Percy Pilcher with the Hawk

Pilcher Hawk in flight signed by Percy Pilcher

Pilcher Hawk in flight

Pilcher Gull 1896
Pilcher Gull, 1896

Pilcher Gull

Pilcher Pilcher and his sister with the Beetle

Pilcher Bat

Pilcher Bat in its original form without horizontal tail surfaces, 1895

Pilcher Bat in the air

Pilcher Bat with complete tail unit and much reduced dihedral, 1895

Pilcher Hawk glider

Percy Sinclair Pilcher 1866-1899 in his study
Percy Sinclair Pilcher, 1866-1899, in his study

Pilcher Glider Gull A

Parasol Yacht
Pilcher of London and Wilson of Dublin demonstrate their Cyclone yacht at Southampton : the parasol not only sails your boat, it protects you from sunburn !

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