Juan, don't you know nuffink? The Wright Brothers were beaten to the punch by one Richard Pierce, a Canterbury (NZ) farmer who reputedly flew a No.8 wire contraption some months before Orville and Wilbur donated their names to Mayberry.

A full-sized replica of his plane (using the word very, very loosely) has been hanging in the international terminal at Wellington airport for a couple of years. Frightens the bejeezus out of first-time visitors from overseas who are about to consider a domestic flight, it really does ...


The idiot also known as Capfka ...