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Gustave Albin Whitehead (born Gustav Albin Weisskopf; 1 January 1874 – 10 October 1927) was an aviation pioneer who emigrated from Germany to the United States where he designed and built gliders, flying machines, and engines between 1897 and 1915.
Gustave Whitehead, born 1874, died 1927. A steam engine built by Whitehead. This was similar to the steam engines used by Locomobile, a Bridgeport automobile manufacturer where he had worked. Whitehead seated with his daughter Rose beside the "No.21," built in 1901.
Dec 17, 2021 · O’Dwyer cited Whitehead’s use of wheels in 1901, rather than skids, as enhancing his ‘first in flight’ claim. The Wright Flyer of 1903, with its skids, relied on a catapult and rail system to achieve flying speed. Whitehead continued to build aircraft and lightweight engines in the ensuing decade.
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Apr 6, 2013 · Gustave Whitehead (1874-1927), a native of Leutershausen, Bavaria, who immigrated to the United States, probably in 1894, claimed to have made a sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine on August 14, 1901, two years before the Wright brothers.
Jul 8, 2014 · It has been claimed (yet again) that Gustave Whitehead flew a powered, controlled airplane before the Wright brothers did. By Daniel C. Schlenoff. The Sciences. Legislation introduced last year...
Mar 8, 2013 · Whitehead was trained as an engine-builder in Augsburg at a predecessor company of M.A.N. Gustave Whitehead (born Gustav Weißkopf), son of a bridge-construction engineer, grew up in Germany. At school, he was keenly interested in flight; performed lift-measurement experiments on birds; built models; and jumped off roofs with self-built wings.
Mar 18, 2013 · John Brown, an Australian researcher living in Germany, has unveiled a website claiming that Gustave Whitehead (1874-1927), a native of Leutershausen, Bavaria, who immigrated to the United...
