Posted on 06/05/2013 10:11:10 AM PDT by servo1969
Are they righting a wrong or wronging the Wrights?
The Connecticut Senate passed a bill Tuesday evening that would delete the Wright brothers from history, explicitly stripping recognition for the first powered flight from Orville and Wilbur and assigning it to someone else.
“The Governor shall proclaim a date certain in each year as Powered Flight Day to honor the first powered flight by [the Wright brothers] Gustave Whitehead and to commemorate the Connecticut aviation and aerospace industry,” reads House Bill No. 6671, which now sits on the governor’s desk awaiting passage into law.
"There’s no question that the Wright brothers retain their place in aviation history," Republican state sen. Mike McLachlan told FoxNews.com. And rightfully so. They just weren't first." The governor is likely to sign the bill as early as next week, he said.
In March, aviation historian John Brown unveiled what he calls photographic proof that Whitehead flew over Connecticut in 1901, “two years, four months, and three days before the Wright brothers.”
"At least in Connecticut, aviation history now appears to have been rewritten,” Brown told FoxNews.com Wednesday. “I have no information about whether school books will be reprinted in time for the start of Fall classes.”
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So, has anyone told North Carolina yet?
But do the history books still note that the telephone and light bulb were invented by brilliant Russian scientist? Or is lie that American swine did this still allowed?
Tune in next week when a little known pharmacist from Enfield is credited with inventing Coca-Cola.
The CT Senate also voted not to let anyone see original photos of the event.
Or anyone else for that matter?
I think that would have been a pretty big event in Connecticut. I wonder why no one has written about it before or that witnesses came forward at the time who saw the flight.
Imbecilic State Of Connect-The-Cut!
Home of ‘Scranton’ Joe Biden the most ignorant ass (covers a lot of asses) to ever be sworn in as vice-president.
It’s not a photograph. It’s a drawing. However Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft recognizes Whitehead and the Smithsonian has give the Wright Flyer back to the family if they say the Wrights weren’t first.
Because with all of the economic state of affairs involved, such 'braking' news requires new textbooks be rushed into publication.
Meanwhile the jury is still out on the President's own paperworks.
Tomorrow "The American Revolution" that we all know the French won.
But bills on mandated healthcare, amnesty for illegal immigrants, tax code, etc? No time!
A Brazilian told me that a Brazilian was actually responsible for the first powered flight. The Wright brothers had the best documentation. If it isn’t documented, it didn’t happen.
I am sure in Russia there is photographic proof that the first power flight took place there. Addtionally has anyone checked with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Kim Jong-Un? I am sure that they will wish to put forth their proofs that the first powered flight took place in their respective countries. ;-)
“Or is lie that American swine did this still allowed?”
It certainly wasn’t Edison. Nor was it an American.
“The 1st light bulb was built by Humphry Davy (an Englishman) in 1809. Thomas Alva Edison improved the invention and based his improvements on a patent he purchased from inventors Henry Woodward & Matthew Evans who patented their bulb in 1875. “
So where’s the photographic proof of flight? All I see with the article is photographic proof of construction.
Powered flight is not controlled flight. The Wright Bros. were the first to achieve controlled flight with “wing warping,” the precursors to ailerons.
"What difference does it make anyway, at this time???"
Coming soon:
1) A jew named Albert Einstein stole everything from Islam.
2) Blacks in Africa invented the printing press but it was stolen by a white supremacist named Gutenberg.
3) Mexicans built the Hoover Dam but it was stolen by Yankee Imperialists.
4) An unnamed homosexual rather than Michelangelo painted the Sistine chapel due the Catholic Church opposing gay marriage.
Some technologies, such as television had been in the works since the 1890s (with intentions dating back even further).
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