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Used (3) from$17898 + $3.99 shipping. Lost flights of Gustave Whitehead. Hardcover – Import, January 1, 1937. by Stella Randolph (Author) 5.0 1 rating. See all formats and editions. Lost Flights of Gustave Whitehead was the first book to document the life and achievements of Gustave Whitehead. The author documents her efforts to secure ...
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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....
Stella Randolph stated in Lost Flights of Gustave Whitehead (1937) that Richard Howell wrote the article about a Whitehead flight in the Bridgeport Herald, although the article carried no byline. O'Dwyer wrote that Howell made the drawing of the No. 21 in flight which accompanied the newspaper article, saying that Howell was "an artist before ...
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Stella Randolph. 3.00. 1 rating0 reviews. Lost Flights of Gustave Whitehead was the first book to document the life and achievements of Gustave Whitehead. The author documents her efforts to secure evidence of Whitehead's flights. It contains eyewitness statements, photos and other illustrations. Out of print. 95 pages, Hardcover.
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Dec 17, 2021 · He built more than 30 aircraft engines and sold them to customers as far west as California. An earlier student of Whitehead’s life and career was the late Stella Randolph of Garrett Park, Md., author of two books, Lost Flights of Gustave Whitehead (1937) and Before the Wrights Flew (1966).
Washington, D.C. Places, Inc., 1937 . First edition of the book that elevated the theory that Gustave Whitehead 1874 – 1927 achieved powered flight two years before the Wright brothers. With twelve photo plates including frontispiece and two maps. With an eight-page appendix that compiles affidavits and periodical articles on Whitehead’s inventions. A fine copy in the near-fine pictorial ...
O'Dwyer re-wrote her 1937 book Lost Flights of Gustave Whitehead, working with a German publisher. It was to be called History by Contract. Both he and Stella were to be co-authors. By October 1979, it had been 45 years since Stella began her research on Gustave Whitehead.
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