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Aug 8, 2021 · And on the 120th anniversary of Whitehead’s alleged achievement, a replica Kosch built of the German immigrant’s No. 21 “Condor” aircraft will be on display Aug. 14 and Aug. 15 at the ...
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1901 Whitehead No. 21 (replica) The Whitehead No.21 was an aircraft that aviation pioneer Gustave Whitehead claimed to have flown near Bridgeport, Connecticut on August 14, 1901. A description and photographs of Whitehead's aircraft appeared in Scientific American in June 1901, stating that the "novel flying machine" had just been completed ...
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Whitehead, or Weisskopf in his native language, was a German immigrant with an undeniable passion for aviation. He was reasonably skilled with his hands and worked manual jobs in Boston, New York, Buffalo, Tonawanda, Johnstown, Pittsburgh, and finally Bridgeport, Connecticut. While in Boston in 1897 he built a glider for the Boston Aeronautical Soc...
Much of that article was inspired by a story titled "Flying" that appeared in the Bridgeport Herald on 18 August 1901. The Herald was published every Sunday and featured local Connecticut news. This particular edition reported a flight that Whitehead claimed to have made four days earlier. This story had fairly wide coverage - it went out over the ...
Despite its implausible claims, discrepancies and contradictory sources, the Popular Aviation magazine article lit a fire under a few interested scholars. The Harvard University Committee on Research in the Social Sciences sent John Crane, a professor of economics to Connecticut. (At the time, Crane was working on a book on the history of aviation....
The Whitehead No.21 was the aircraft that aviation pioneer Gustave Whitehead claimed to have flown near Bridgeport, Connecticut on August 14, 1901. Professional aviation historians and scholars reject claims for the flight.
Aug 12, 2022 · News. Stratford aviation enthusiasts plan ‘fly-in’ at Sikorsky Memorial Airport. By Richard Chumney Updated Aug 12, 2022 1:21 p.m. Andy Kosch stands next to his replica of Gustave...
