I’ll need to see the video...
Me too.
a local museum in CT, many years ago, had a special exhibit on Whitehead. It is all very impressive. For me, the clincher was the newspaper article from 1901 describing his flight. I trust historians would have gone over this with a fine toothed comb.
I think his story exemplies the professional hazards of being a “lone inventor”. No one to do PR, no one to really press his case because he was a nobody, so we see the result.