Post by Gittyup on Jun 27, 2013 8:31:09 GMT -6
Connecticut governor OKs law erasing Wright Brothers from history
Wilbur and Orville Wright-Didn't happen
Connecticut now officially recognizes a local aviator as the first man who flew.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced on Wednesday that he signed into law a measure insisting that German-born aviator and Bridgeport resident Gustave Whitehead flew in 1901, two years before Wilbur and Orville Wright lifted off from Kitty Hawk, N.C.
Whitehead's supporters say they're correcting a historical mistake. Supporters of the Wright brothers, including the Smithsonian Institution that houses the brothers' historic plane, say Connecticut's Whitehead partisans are wrong.
A recent burst of interest in Whitehead followed a documentary by an Australian historian. Whitehead Research Committees in the United States and Germany also have stoked interest.
Jane's All the World's Aircraft, an industry publication, recently cited contemporary news accounts in concluding that Whitehead beat the brothers from Dayton, Ohio, into the air.
Read more: www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/27/connecticut-governor-oks-law-recognizing-new-1st-aviator/?cmpid=NL_politics#ixzz2XQWZyWr6
Wilbur and Orville Wright-Didn't happen
Connecticut now officially recognizes a local aviator as the first man who flew.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced on Wednesday that he signed into law a measure insisting that German-born aviator and Bridgeport resident Gustave Whitehead flew in 1901, two years before Wilbur and Orville Wright lifted off from Kitty Hawk, N.C.
Whitehead's supporters say they're correcting a historical mistake. Supporters of the Wright brothers, including the Smithsonian Institution that houses the brothers' historic plane, say Connecticut's Whitehead partisans are wrong.
A recent burst of interest in Whitehead followed a documentary by an Australian historian. Whitehead Research Committees in the United States and Germany also have stoked interest.
Jane's All the World's Aircraft, an industry publication, recently cited contemporary news accounts in concluding that Whitehead beat the brothers from Dayton, Ohio, into the air.
Read more: www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/27/connecticut-governor-oks-law-recognizing-new-1st-aviator/?cmpid=NL_politics#ixzz2XQWZyWr6
