Well, Obama has determined that Mohammed did the first powered flight. He also flew over the American continent and claimed it for allah.
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?
Yes, and we all know that Al Gore really invented the Internet.
There were many early flight pioneers, but the Wright's documented their flight and quickly developed controlled powered flight. Whitehead may or may not have flown before the Wright brothers, but one photo, now apparently lost, and no other good documentation of the feat doesn't give him much credibility.
Wright Brothers...red state.That other clown...Communist state.Nothing to see here folks.
But think controlled flight, if my memory was correct, Whitehead's aircraft was a kludge, no control, end of story.
The problem is now the CT legislator has confirmed the know as little about aviation as they do about firearms...
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?
I figured they were going to tell us...that first powered flight was done by Islamists
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.
I once read it was some guy in Australia.
There were lots of contenders for the title of first powered flight, including the Ezekiel Airship which was alleged to fly in East Texas back in 1902. A full-sized replica has been displayed in a museum for years to convince the sceptics.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/11610
Regardless of claimants, the Wrights stood out from the dreamers and crackpots and took flying from dreams to actual practicality.
“Research work conducted on Whitehead has included that of Stella Randolph, a journalist–educator inspired and informed by aviation buff Harvey Phillips in the 1930s and supported by Professor John B. Crane’s articles from 1936–1949. Researchers from 1963 and forward have included: Major William O’Dwyer (ret.) of the U.S. Air Force Reserve in cooperation with the Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association (CAHA); Harold Dolan, a Sikorsky Aircraft engineer and vice president–secretary of the CAHA.”
courtesy “Legacy” section at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Whitehead#References
Sikorsky Aircraft (part of United Technologies today, is located in Stratford Connecticut.
Connecticut is “bringing it home” me thinks.
In addition to Whitehead, Igor Sikorsky, the founder of Sikorsky Aircraft in 1923, had a number of his own aviation firsts.
Sikorsky designed and flew the world’s first multi-engine fixed-wing aircraft, the Russky Vityaz in 1913, and the first airliner, Ilya Muromets, in 1914. (he was Russian, lived in Russia at the time and immigrated to the U.S. in 1919). And later developed and developed the first of Pan American Airways’ ocean-conquering flying boats in the 1930s. In 1939 Sikorsky designed and flew the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300,[3] the first viable American helicopter, which pioneered the rotor configuration used by most helicopters today. Sikorsky would modify the design into the Sikorsky R-4, which became the world’s first mass-produced helicopter in 1942.
courtesy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sikorsky
God said that they would rewrite history towards the end times.
The nation has been surrendered to hordes of invading locusts with scarcely a fight.
America is dead and gone. The Democrats won. Congratulations to them.
