In the drawing, it looked like it had steam boat style paddle wheels. It has propellers. Still, those wings would tear right off.
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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Liberals, always leading their actions through emotions. They want to believe this so it must be true, facts be damned.
Nonsense. I don’t buy any of this.
According to the new PC NASA, it was a muslim who pioneered powered flight.
Was somebody holding up a newspaper?
No no no, you’ve got it all wrong: the telephone and light bulb were invented by the closet Muslim (Al-)Thomas Edisonri,way way back at his scientific complex/mosque in
Mahmood Park, NJ. The most irritating part of all this type of stuff, which occurs weekly if not daily in Congress is that these exercises in “stolen valor” are accepted as part of what a State Senator does, and proudly.I remember a black Congressman from the South Side of Chicago,Gus Savage, back in the 70s when I lived there, whose SOLE focus of his career year after year, was submitting bill after bill based on honoring the boxing champ Joe Louis (libraries, parks,etc.)
Not that long. Westinghouse aquired Tesla’s patents. Tesla was compensated for them.
Reisling, of Gelhhausen Germany.
Mohammed had a horse and it jumped clear from Medina to Jerusalem one night.
Didn’t you know that Al Asqua mosque is where the horse landed (and dropped some road apples)?
Thomas Edison’s “last breath” has been preserved in Dearbornistan, Michigan so perhaps he really was a muslim!
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2118
The patent office hasn’t required a working prototype for about 100 years.
I never had a prototype of my patent, nor was there interest in the patent office in seeing one.
I figured they were going to tell us...that first powered flight was done by Islamists
That thing would never fly unless the airfoils on the paddle wheel had some kind of cyclic pitch control. Even with that, it doesn’t look like it would fly. No way could those propellers generate enough thrust (IMHO) and the thing looks like it would stall instantly.
It was a black from Kenya
So the CT legislature bends over backwards to promote a dubious claim of minor historical interest, yet they wouldn’t dream of celebrating the state’s PIVOTAL role in the firearms industry.
The Wrights did a lot more than be the first. It took a number of years to convince the world they could do what they had actually done. Convincing a skeptical world was in many ways one of the most amazing stories in history. First in America then in Europe. Even if they weren’t the first they blazed the trail for aviation and essentially laid the foundation. There is no disputing that part.
In the drawing, it looked like it had steam boat style paddle wheels. It has propellers. Still, those wings would tear right off.
thanx
I once read it was some guy in Australia.
Supposedly, it had 3-axis control, and replicas have been built and flown.
Also, there is evidence of a government cover-up. It turns out the Smithsonian attempted to hide a contract with the Wright family dating from 1948, as documented in the 1978 book History by Contract, by William J. O'Dwyer and Stella Randolph. From a review:
This book accurately reveals that there is a real legal contract between the heirs to the Orville Wright estate and the Smithsonian Institution, which forbids Smithsonian from recognizing anyone else as flying first. This contract has paralyzed early aviation history research in the USA. The book is a must read, and well done, with loads of original documents and information confirming that Gustave Whitehead of Bridgeport and Fairfield, CT, actually flew before the Wright Bros, by two years. The book explains in detail how Smithsonian has fought the evidence, due to the contract. To view the Contract and other proof of Whitehead flying first, go to www.gustave-whitehead.com. I rate this book an A+ and wish a reprint would occur. For more info on this book go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_by_Contract. I am reviewing this book on 4/8/13.
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