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When was the first powered flight?
Did Gustave Whitehead make the first powered flight in an airplane?
Did Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first powered flight?
Who claimed the first manned flight in a powered aeroplane?
Several aviators have been claimed to be the first to fly a powered aeroplane. Much controversy surrounds these claims. It is generally accepted today that the Wright brothers were the first to achieve sustained and controlled powered manned flight, in 1903.
Some New Zealanders argue that Richard Pearse made a powered flight as early as the spring of 1903—months before the Wrights’ first flight on December 17—even though Pearse himself remarked...
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The controversy first arose in 1935 with the publication of a magazine article on Whitehead's aeronautical ambitions, and it continues to flare from time to time. According to believers in the Whitehead legend, the first powered flight occurred on August 14, 1901.
Dec 17, 2021 · Some historians believe that on August 14, 1901, at Fairfield, Conn., Gustave Whitehead achieved powered flight-two years and four months before the Wrights’ first flight. Which leads to a further question: Who was Gustave Whitehead?
Controversy surrounds published accounts and Whitehead's own claims that he flew a powered machine successfully several times in 1901 and 1902, predating the first flights by the Wright Brothers in 1903.
Jul 8, 2014 · 16 min read. Scientific American Debunks Claim Gustave Whitehead Was "First in Flight" It has been claimed (yet again) that Gustave Whitehead flew a powered, controlled airplane before...
SI-496-2013. When it comes to making news, themes such as a major discovery, a lingering mystery or a controversy are sure to grab headlines. The claim that Gustave Whitehead, not Orville and Wilbur Wright, made the first powered flight in an airplane has all of these elements and more.
