The Whitehead story seems to have become an American tall tale and the
result of a delusional eccentric. Aviation historians who do not have a
financial interest in keeping the legend alive dispute the claims and note
the lack of evidence.
See http://www.first-to-fly.com/History/Whitehead.htm
Besides if you look at the physics involved in flying an airplane and the
power output of a steam engine compared to an IC engine of the same weight
the IC engine wins out. If you look at turn of the Century technology it
even looks worse. Also note the earliest powered planes barely flew with
the power available from those IC engines.
Steve Ciambrone
-----Original Message-----
From: William F. Kaiser [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 12:46 PM
To: Multiple recipients of sslivesteam
Subject: RE: Steam Areoplanes too? (O.T.)
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.
--
Bill Kaiser
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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