Whitehead may or may not have flown.� If he did fly sucessfully, he made one mistake the Wright brothers avoided.� He didn't document his flight.� The Wrights took many pictures of their flights including the most important picture of all, the famous picture of the first flight.� If Whitehead had done that, he might have been hailed as the father of powered flight.� If you can't document it, it never happened, or so some believe.
> "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."
>
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