At Pelichet Bay.
John Harley Gill in his plane in 1910.
A design sketch for John Gill's plane.
The front of Gill's plane, with its "albatross breast" front.
A Bleriot XI replica flies at Wanaka.
A Pither replica in flight near Gore.
Did a Dunedin commercial traveller and his aeroplane lift off from Andersons Bay 100 years ago and become the first in New Zealand to achieve powered flight?
This question is just one that is intriguing Christchurch aviation historian Errol Martyn as he attempts to unravel the fact from the fiction of our earliest flying days.