On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Ciambrone, Steve @ OS wrote:
>
> I do not know of any successful "heavier than air" man carrying aircraft
> powered by steam.
>
Many years ago I read an article about a guy whose name, I believe, was
Gustav Whitehead, who built a steam powered airplane around 1901. He and
an assistant were flying around in it when they crashed into a church
steeple, and he gave up on flying.
A few years ago I was half listening to a newscast from a CT station,
saying a group was trying to get the world to recognize that this guy
accomplished the first manned powered flight, and that it was done in CT.
I haven't ever run across any other information concerning this guy or his
flight, but supposedly he wrote a letter to an inventor type magazine at
the time saying he had successfully flown.
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