Wrights' Evidence Grounds Gustave Whitehead's Flight Of Fancy

... time to ground it permanently. Mr. Whitehead, who lived in Connecticut, claimed to have flown a proto-airplane in Fairfield in 1901, two years before the Wrights' flight in Kitty Hawk, N.C. His alleged feat was reported in the weekly Bridgeport ...

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