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19 de jul. de 2024 · Gustave Whitehead: First in Flight, is bound to raise a lot of controversy, but Brinchman provides in this book documentation and unimpeachable evidence and eyewitness accounts to counter that.
30 de jun. de 2024 · In the forward to its 100th edition – published online at www.janes.com – the publication stated that there is strong evidence to suggest that Gustave Whitehead may have achieved powered flight two years before the Wright Brothers’ historic demonstration at Kitty Hawk.
12 de jul. de 2024 · Even more astonishing is that Santos-Dumont and Gustave Whitehead weren’t the only ones who tried to get credit for the first-ever powered flight. The early twentieth century has witnessed many aviators vying for the achievement.
Hace 3 días · Excerpts from Elisha Gray's patent caveat of February 14 and Alexander Graham Bell's lab notebook entry of March 8, demonstrating similarities. In the summer of 1874, Gray developed a harmonic telegraph device using vibrating reeds that could transmit musical tones, but not intelligible speech.
2 de jul. de 2024 · Gustave Whitehead, a German immigrant working on his own version of an airplane-like flying machine, became a source of worry. Rumors of his successful flights cast a shadow of doubt, but the Wrights, focused on their own rigorous testing, refused to be deterred (discouraged).
3 de jul. de 2024 · 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.
18 de jul. de 2024 · Gustave Whitehead afirmó haber volado en una aeronave más pesada que el aire, por medios propios, el 14 de agosto de 1901. Cometió el error de no documentar su supuesto vuelo, pero posteriormente, una réplica de su avión denominado número 21 consiguió alzar el vuelo con éxito.
