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Gustave Whitehead's Flying Machine
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| Two years, four months and three days before the successful
flights of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, a birdlike monoplane took
to the air at early dawn on August 14, 1901, near Bridgeport,
Connecticut, carrying its inventor and builder, Gustave Whitehead, a
distance of approximately a half mile. ...So reported the Bridgeport
Herald, the
New
York Herald and the
Boston
Transcript.
Later on the same day, Whitehead and his power driven plane are reported to have made three other flights... Did Whitehead really beat the Wright brothers? Did other pre-Wright inventors fly first? Many refuse to even entertain the notion that the Wrights were not the first and the best - but there is growing evidence that in fact, that may not be the case at all. This page is meant to be as complete as possible, a resource for those interested in aviation history and the legacy of Gustave Whitehead. |
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