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  1. Wright Brothers History Questioned by Gustave …

    Nov 23, 2013 · “The Wrights were right; but Whitehead was ahead,” he wrote. Brown’s research and Jane’s declaration has triggered a war of words between Whitehead’s home state of Connecticut, which passed a...

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    Unafraid of ‘getting his hands dirty’, Whitehead (1874-1927) had amassed considerable knowledge of practical aircraft construction and was also gifted in design and production of the item then most prized by aspiring aviators: the light, yet powerful and reliable engine.
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    Whitehead equipped his aircraft No. 21, known as the Condor, with two acetylene-fuelled engines of his own design: 10 hp for the road wheels and 20 hp as the main source of forward flight.
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    Researcher John Brown now claims that he has found that photo. The National Air and Space Museums’ William Hammer Collection contains a photo of the museum’s Lilienthal glider hanging in the 1906 exhibition. A display of photos is visible on the far wall in the image of the glider.
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    On August 18, 1901, Richard Howell, a reporter for the Bridgeport Sunday Herald, published an account of the early morning flight of August 14, in which he claimed that Whitehead traveled half a mile through the air at a maximum altitude of 50 feet.
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