right flyer was politically acceptable there.
Scott
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Subject: [MBZ] First manned flights not Wrights
A growing number of aviat
Gerry Archer wrote:
Most mainstream aeronautical historians, including those at the Smithson
Institution, are unswayed by newspaper accounts of Mr Whitehead making
several flights before the Wright Brothers...snip
The Smithsonian has a 1903 Wright Flyer.
http://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions
Gerry Archer wrote:
Most mainstream aeronautical historians, including those at the Smithson
Institution, are unswayed by newspaper accounts of Mr Whitehead making
several flights before the Wright Brothers...snip
The Smithsonian has a 1903 Wright Flyer.
The Smithsonian does not have a 1901
A growing number of aviation experts say history is wrong about the Wright
Brothers - their 1903 flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina was not the
first.
This new movement claims the first manned flight of an airplane was made by
German immigrant Gustave Whitehead more than two years earlier in
