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Connecticut Senate passes bill writing Wright Brothers out of history
FoxNews.com ^ | 6-5-2013 | Jeremy A. Kaplan

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut; US: North Carolina; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: academicbias; aerospace; aviation; brothers; connecticut; godsgravesglyphs; gustave; history; historyeducation; kittyhawk; northcarolina; ohio; orville; revisionisthistory; whitehead; wilbur; wright
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To: servo1969

So, this guy flew 2 years before the Wright brothers- in front of witnesses- and nobody said anything for 110 years. Well it’s on the internet, so it’s true, right?


21 posted on 06/05/2013 10:29:08 AM PDT by Rikki Doxx
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To: cumbo78
The CT Senate also voted not to let anyone see original photos of the event.

Now, that there is funny!

22 posted on 06/05/2013 10:29:49 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: servo1969
According to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (New York: Macmillan, 1973-1983), the first flight was made by Alexander Mozhaiskii, a Russian naval officer, in 1884.
23 posted on 06/05/2013 10:29:51 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: servo1969

Sketch allegedly based on a now lost photograph of the alleged Gustave Whitehead 1901 first flight.

Actual photograph of the Wright Brothers first flight.

I find it sufficiently surprising that anyone would fail to photograph as historic an event as an actual first controlled powered flight that I am not willing to accept the Whitehead claims. We know the Wrights did it - see the photos, see the video, see the numerous contemporary accounts - it happened.

24 posted on 06/05/2013 10:30:24 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: servo1969

Sorry, but the first true powered flight was Alberto Santos Dumont.


25 posted on 06/05/2013 10:30:45 AM PDT by Clemenza ("History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil governm)
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To: IbJensen

Since when is Joe Plugs from CT?


26 posted on 06/05/2013 10:31:39 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: servo1969

Side note: all gun mfg’ers in CT please leave that lunatic asylum masquerading as a state.


27 posted on 06/05/2013 10:32:25 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: IbJensen

RE: Home of ‘Scranton’ Joe Biden the most ignorant ass ...

I bet even ignorant Joe Biden knows Scranton is in Pennsylvania


28 posted on 06/05/2013 10:32:56 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Edison purchased patents from all sorts of inventors and then used them to put other inventors out of business. He also waged other disputes with other inventors (famously against Tesla over AC vs DC power).

Edison purchased Fergie Jenkins’ patent to keep film from flapping around in movie projectors (Jenkins did studies into how a flag flaps in the wind) and Jenkins later worked on early television and radiovision prototypes (television is actually what we know as cablevision). Radiovision was broadcast signal. Television was transmitted by wire and he had difficulty securing enough wire of significant grade to transmit a signal any sizable distance. He published a book on his efforts in the 1920s that included plans on how to build receivers so he could see how far his signals were being received.


29 posted on 06/05/2013 10:33:04 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Nepeta

Correct. Anyone who knows anything about aviation history knows that the first POWERED flight was by Alberto Santos Dumont who, along with his close friend Mr. Cartier, you can also thank for the wristwatch.


30 posted on 06/05/2013 10:33:19 AM PDT by Clemenza ("History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil governm)
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To: IbJensen

Biden’s from Delaware...


31 posted on 06/05/2013 10:34:12 AM PDT by Forty-Niner ( the barely bare, berry bear formally known as Ursus Arctos Horibilis...Hear me roar!)
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To: ClearCase_guy
But do the history books still note that the telephone and light bulb were invented by brilliant Russian scientist?

Look how long it took history to give Nikola Tesla (who was Croatian) his due for inventing, perfecting and proving Alternating Current as a safe and EFFICIENT method of delivering electrical power to the masses.

32 posted on 06/05/2013 10:34:26 AM PDT by ssaftler (Oh, hell YEAH!!!! This is absolutely Obama's fault)
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To: Le Chien Rouge

Michelangelo was likely a Three Dollar Bill himself.


33 posted on 06/05/2013 10:35:05 AM PDT by Clemenza ("History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil governm)
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To: servo1969

34 posted on 06/05/2013 10:35:36 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Pollster1; JoeProBono; Daffynition
If there is no photo, no timestamp, no postcard, how do we know that this photo wasn't from some future date like the one below?


35 posted on 06/05/2013 10:36:08 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: a fool in paradise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3By2lLHgEA

Monty Python’s Flying Circus: “Man-Powered Flight”


36 posted on 06/05/2013 10:36:12 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Blather. Reince. Repeat.)
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To: servo1969

Well, Obama has determined that Mohammed did the first powered flight. He also flew over the American continent and claimed it for allah.


37 posted on 06/05/2013 10:36:24 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama equals Osama))
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To: Rikki Doxx

“So, this guy flew 2 years before the Wright brothers- in front of witnesses- and nobody said anything for 110 years.”

Good point.


38 posted on 06/05/2013 10:37:32 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Forty-Niner

Well, whatever. In the heat of agitated anger I lump both states together.


39 posted on 06/05/2013 10:38:17 AM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: servo1969
No, no, no they have it all wrong.

Our family used to have a photo of my great grandfather Reeves Head, who made the first powered flight in Georgia in 1899. But we lost the photo

We do have a sketch of the old photo though...I just can't seem to locate it right at this momnet. But, if I put my mind to it, I know I can find it in a day or two, on old, properly dated, parched paper too.

Just let me get that and then the State of Georgia legislature can vote next month to dethrone Connecticut and Whitehead!

Jeez...where does it end?

40 posted on 06/05/2013 10:38:19 AM PDT by Jeff Head
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