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Edgar Percival
Edgar Wikner Percival (23 February 1897 – 21 January 1984) was a noted Australian aircraft designer and pilot whose aircraft were distinguished by speed and grace. Percival went on to set up the Percival Aircraft Company, a British aircraft company in his own name.
==Early years==
Percival was born in 1898 at Albury, New South Wales, the son of Blanche Hilda Leontina Percival, née Wikner and William Percival, a butter manufacturer.〔(John McCarthy, 1988, "Percival, Edgar Wikner (1897–1984)", ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'' ) (18 June 2013)〕 Edgar Percival's maternal great uncle was the Swedish philosopher Pontus Wikner.
As a child Percival assisted at his family's farm, on the flats of the Hawkesbury River at Richmond, New South Wales.〔 He also became fascinated by aviation, especially after seeing an aeroplane for the first time in 1911, when a local dental surgeon and pioneer aviator, William Ewart Hart, landed on the council field in Richmond, near the Percival property. After helping to maintain Hart's aircraft, Percival received, as a reward, his first flight. By 1912, when he was 14, Percival had designed, produced and flown his own gliders.
He attended Fort Street High School, in Sydney. Percival left school at the age of 15, to become an apprentice engineer at a Sydney firm.〔 He later enrolled at Sydney Technical College, before undertaking a short course in aeronautical engineering at Sydney University.〔Percival 1984, p. 463.〕
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