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Mar 8, 2013 · Early in 1901, Gustave Whitehead built his 21st manned aircraft. He called it the “Condor” . That summer – more than two years before the Wright Brothers – he made history's first manned, powered, controlled, sustained flight in a heavier-than-air airplane. On March 8, 2013, the world's foremost authority on aviation history, "Jane's ...
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A Second Look. Analyzing the photo-within-a-photo alleged to show Gustave Whitehead in flight. By Nick Engler. Earlier this year, John Brown, an employee of an obscure aeronautical company trying to develop a roadable airplane, published a “forensic analysis” of a photo that appeared at the 1906 Exhibition of Aeronautical Apparatus at the ...
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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 States ...
- Tom Crouch
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. Controversy surrounds published accounts and Whitehead's own claims that he flew a powered ...
- Claimed flights 1901–1902
- 10 October 1927 (aged 53), Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.
- Louise Tuba Whitehead
Mar 18, 2013 · John Brown, an Australian researcher living in Germany, has unveiled a web site claiming that Gustave Whitehead (January 1, 1874-October 10, 1927), a native of Leutershausen, Bavaria, who ...
- Linda Shiner
Nov 23, 2013 · Gustave Whitehead was a German-American aviator who designed and built gliders and other flying machines. Some say it was Whitehead, not the Wright Brothers, who was first in flight. Early last year, freelance aviation historian John Brown sat in the office of the curator of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, home of the 1903 Wright ...
May 5, 2013 · Gustave Whitehead, above with his daughter Rose, is believed by some aviation historians to have preceeded the Wright brothers by as much as three years with a manned flight. Photograph from Corbis
