Gustave Wh itehead WAS HE FIRST really first make controlled powered flight airplane may ever conclusive proof answer question growing evidence Gustave Whitehead may have beaten Wright brothers punch several yearsE Don Berliner IF ANYONE DOUBTS Gustave Whitehead has able fly limited distance least aeroplane such doubts can dispelled viewing photographs flight south win dow Lyon & Grummans hardware store Main Street two pictures window showing Whitehead aeroplane about 20 feet ground sailing along course has perfected inven tion says has frequently flown over half mile picked up copy October 1 1904 edition Bridgeport CT Daily Standard read short item what would have thought Remember no yet paid serious attention report two bicycle builders Ohio flown airplane 10 months before Kitty Hawk NC around Bridgeport flights Whitehead apparently well-known early 1901 Lots people seen airplanes also seen full flight may almost no references work standard avia tion history books theres growing pile testimony pointing strong possibility German immigrant first man fly airplane Today Gustave Whitehead making lot people nervous though hes dead 50 years what claimed have done 80 years ago turns out true very important fact aviation history will have changed lot people will have change thinking writers historians monument builders others repu tations could endangered claims Whitehead accepted makes people uncomfortable What being claimed Whitehead nothing less very first true flight airplane As early 1901 perhaps 1899 said have flown heavier-than-air device under control considerable distanceat least far first flights Wright brothers Kitty Hawk 1903 status Orville Wilbur Wright men reponsible first flight airplane seemed solid Edi sons invention electric light until Connecticut historian ish recall aeronautical world fact America belongs credit pro ducing first successful motordriven aeroplane such men Wright brothers M Herring Gustave Whitehead longs real credit having pro duced first successful heavierthan-air flying machines Scientific American January 25 1908 Photos Gustave Weisskopf Museum Leutershausen West Germany via William ODwyer name William ODwyer discovered what learned little-known student subject proceeded collect evidence pre-Wright flights Now no about challenge Wright brothers position fathers airplane work led airplanes know today Similarly no would question status Chris topher Columbus man voyages led settling Americas Europeans just strong possibility others got western side Atlantic Ocean long before Columbus growing evidence someone flew powered airplane several years before Kitty Hawk isnt question made terribly important contributions world history merely deserves credit having first Christopher Orville Wilbur make permanent what others quite possibly did before life pro ceeded develop what know today Still history growing collection facts rather set con clusions carved stone historians must willing consider new fact new theory its own merits no room bias fan wants team win isnt playing very well will probably never proven Gustave Whitehead type No 21 airplane Fairfield Ave nue flying field Bridgeport CT inventor standing front airplane holding engines used power wheels airplane its takeoff run 1 F enigmauc inventor 1902 1903 engines Note unusual bundle wire cooling fins apparent ease Whitehead lifting engine high general layout Whiteheads #21 airplane shows strong similarity earlier designs du Temple Mozhaisky othersbut Wright brothers Wttitehead flew before Wrights nt Its just too late definitive research question de mands nothing existence parties would consider proof Videotape movie film short supply turn century community leaders may have witnessed flying no longer among us About best anyone can hope collect old testimony accounts pub lished reputable journals day try assemble reasonable story what may have happened After isnt what has done flights Orville Wilbur Kitty Hawk December 17 1903 historic trips made benefit network TV coverage fact Wrights main witnesses own flights now-classic photo 1903 Flyer leav ing ground its maiden flight report edly wasnt seen public five years accumulation testimony photo raphs other bits evidence has consuming passion Bill ODwyer lives Fairfield CT just few miles Whitehead conducted exper iments Bill picked up Stella Ran dolph left off after writing two obscure books Lost Flights Gustave Whitehead 1937 Before Wrights Flew G P Putnams Sons 1966 added collection eye-witness testimony news paper magazine clippings other evidence work Whitehead 1978 ODwyer Randolph jointly compiled History Contract published Germany Fritz Majer & Son expanded initial work added considerable documentary support premise Whitehead made suc cessful flights Wrights still learning fly kites gliders through long grind trying convince world missed some thing important has puzzling presence Smithsonian Institution its National Air & Space Museum Widely considered leading authority matters aeronautical history popular museum Washington DC has shown suspicious lack enthusiasm entire Whitehead matter its people called Whithead hoax mid-1970s ODwyer enlisted support Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker force Smithsonian release copy long-denied contract between estate Orville Wright sheds con siderable light odd behavior national museum makes clear Smithsonian prohibited contract supporting publishing claim airplane capable true flight existed before Wrights flew late 1903 agreement violated treasured airplanes reverts Wright heirs could removed National Air & Space Museum sent elsewhere Such contract appears totally odds basic purpose museums 90 Model Aviation wniteneaa ana flis little daughter Rose under wing #21 airplane reportedly flew times 1901 twin counter-rotating propellers front Whitehead second left several associates pose casually beside type #21 may well have worlds first successful airplane engine front like used drive wheels tor takeoff Close-up ot engine engine mount propeller ot Whiteheads #21 airplane present accurate picture history possible theory least Smithsonian would have ignore abso lute proof someone flew before Wrights lose priceless centerpiece its Milestones Flight hall look conditions existed time contract may help explain peculiar action 1928 Wright 1903 Flyer sent Science Museum London England displayed first successful airplane world time Smithsonian refused recog nize Wrights first fly preferring grant title its own Prof Samuel Langley secretary Smithson ian ill-founded attempts fly 1903 ended Aerodrome flopped awk wardly Potomac River wasnt until 1948 Smithsonian ready join rest free world recognizing Wrights fathers flight order get airplane back England display Washington agree restrictive unusual conditions contract though rival claims feared primarily worn-out ones about Langley leading museum its respected historians unable consider evidence Whitehead flew before Wrights up Bill ODwyer carry load would have seek out evidence wit nesses reasons believe unknown inventor deserves place early history aviation crusade could easily have just fruitless efforts prove someone besides Wrights deserves honor having first Clement Ader Felix Du Temple France Sir Hiram Maxim Percey Pilcher Eng land Carl Jatho Germany Alexander Mozhaisky Russia others still have scattering supporters other instance has pretty well proven best men did still category hop airplane may have lifted itself briefly never achieved sustained controlled flight few feet down slight incline simply enough qualify having flown 1902 today case Gustave Whitehead claims true flightsmany over significant distances Louis Darvarich says 1934 signed notarized statement flew Whitehead Pittsburgh PA height 20-25 feet distance about half milein spring 1899 4/2 years before Kitty Hawk full 1/2 years after New York Tribune major newspaper ran article about Whiteheads aerial experiments fellow inventors must have read 1900 Whitehead moved Bridge port CT continued build seems fly airplanes ODwyer has possession signed notarized statements quantityand some tape videotape recordingsin neighbors co-workers passers-by describe airplane flights Whitehead say saw eyes Among 1901 flights attested persons 300 feet distance 15 feet altitude seen Thomas Schwei kert boy sworn 1936 John Fekete stated 1948 May June 1901 watched Whitehead fly 30 feet Continued page 159 March 1983 91 II Hg. surprisingly clean lines aI. orplane eviun Iruni mis angle three-view drawing Bjorn Karlstrom originally appeared American Aircraft Modeler magazine drawing developed photographic references such appear article /7 \\\\\ N7 1038 West Elmer Rd Vineland NJ 08360 Gustave Whitehead/Berliner Continued page 91 distance about 200 feet same vein June 1901 major articles about Whitehead New York Herald Scientaic American latter weekly magazine leading publication US covering sorts advanced experimentation As such surely read everyone seriously trying build air plane 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effect 1 present assisted occasion 8/14/01 Mr Whitehead succeeded flying machine propelled motor height 200 feet off ground sea beach Lord ship Manor Connecticut distance flown approximately mile half lasted best knowledge four minutes works out little over 20 mph reasonable design power attributed airplane Harworth went describe engine con struction airplane said weighed about 800 pounds flights several others apparently made Whitehead airplane #21 Unlike designs of pre tenders Wrights throne display little no aeronautical logic #21 looks like flyable airplane fact models have flown successfully though numer ous rumors full-size reproductions have yet develop hardware Now just because airplane looks like should fly models have flown doesnt mean ever left ground design based solid reasoning sub sequently borne out successful similar airplanes suggests its creator used good engineering headed right direction Whitehead #21 ariplane did spring full grown its inventors imagination direct descendant earlier designs logical development years work others 1809/10 Sir George Cayley published first known description what has since become monoplance design 1842 William Henson also England patented Aerial Steam Carriage wire-braced monoplane fan-shaped tail rear two pusher propellers driven single engine 1848 associate John Stringfel low built flew 10-foot steam-powered model modified Henson design reported 120 feet now-common frontwinged monoplane already progressed theory reasonably stable model large size Efforts create man-carrying mono plane moved ahead steadily 1864 SILK DISCOUNTS ON 50 YD ROLLS 44VYD White $495/rD RedYell Royal Blue Fine Qualify Model Building Ally LengfhMox 5OYd SILK COVERS BEST LIGHT- STRONG- ECONOMICAL SHIPPING ADO 50 FOREIGN 150/ ORDER &Y RES Add 4% BROWNSELL FLAG B DECAL CO 121 LAUREL ROAD NEW CITY NY 914-634- 8500 10956 160 Model Aviation E SOPWITH CAMEL Flight restedContest P-u. 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Gustave Wh itehead WAS HE FIRST really first make controlled powered flight airplane may ever conclusive proof answer question growing evidence Gustave Whitehead may have beaten Wright brothers punch several yearsE Don Berliner IF ANYONE DOUBTS Gustave Whitehead has able fly limited distance least aeroplane such doubts can dispelled viewing photographs flight south win dow Lyon & Grummans hardware store Main Street two pictures window showing Whitehead aeroplane about 20 feet ground sailing along course has perfected inven tion says has frequently flown over half mile picked up copy October 1 1904 edition Bridgeport CT Daily Standard read short item what would have thought Remember no yet paid serious attention report two bicycle builders Ohio flown airplane 10 months before Kitty Hawk NC around Bridgeport flights Whitehead apparently well-known early 1901 Lots people seen airplanes also seen full flight may almost no references work standard avia tion history books theres growing pile testimony pointing strong possibility German immigrant first man fly airplane Today Gustave Whitehead making lot people nervous though hes dead 50 years what claimed have done 80 years ago turns out true very important fact aviation history will have changed lot people will have change thinking writers historians monument builders others repu tations could endangered claims Whitehead accepted makes people uncomfortable What being claimed Whitehead nothing less very first true flight airplane As early 1901 perhaps 1899 said have flown heavier-than-air device under control considerable distanceat least far first flights Wright brothers Kitty Hawk 1903 status Orville Wilbur Wright men reponsible first flight airplane seemed solid Edi sons invention electric light until Connecticut historian ish recall aeronautical world fact America belongs credit pro ducing first successful motordriven aeroplane such men Wright brothers M Herring Gustave Whitehead longs real credit having pro duced first successful heavierthan-air flying machines Scientific American January 25 1908 Photos Gustave Weisskopf Museum Leutershausen West Germany via William ODwyer name William ODwyer discovered what learned little-known student subject proceeded collect evidence pre-Wright flights Now no about challenge Wright brothers position fathers airplane work led airplanes know today Similarly no would question status Chris topher Columbus man voyages led settling Americas Europeans just strong possibility others got western side Atlantic Ocean long before Columbus growing evidence someone flew powered airplane several years before Kitty Hawk isnt question made terribly important contributions world history merely deserves credit having first Christopher Orville Wilbur make permanent what others quite possibly did before life pro ceeded develop what know today Still history growing collection facts rather set con clusions carved stone historians must willing consider new fact new theory its own merits no room bias fan wants team win isnt playing very well will probably never proven Gustave Whitehead type No 21 airplane Fairfield Ave nue flying field Bridgeport CT inventor standing front airplane holding engines used power wheels airplane its takeoff run 1 F enigmauc inventor 1902 1903 engines Note unusual bundle wire cooling fins apparent ease Whitehead lifting engine high general layout Whiteheads #21 airplane shows strong similarity earlier designs du Temple Mozhaisky othersbut Wright brothers Wttitehead flew before Wrights nt Its just too late definitive research question de mands nothing existence parties would consider proof Videotape movie film short supply turn century community leaders may have witnessed flying no longer among us About best anyone can hope collect old testimony accounts pub lished reputable journals day try assemble reasonable story what may have happened After isnt what has done flights Orville Wilbur Kitty Hawk December 17 1903 historic trips made benefit network TV coverage fact Wrights main witnesses own flights now-classic photo 1903 Flyer leav ing ground its maiden flight report edly wasnt seen public five years accumulation testimony photo raphs other bits evidence has consuming passion Bill ODwyer lives Fairfield CT just few miles Whitehead conducted exper iments Bill picked up Stella Ran dolph left off after writing two obscure books Lost Flights Gustave Whitehead 1937 Before Wrights Flew G P Putnams Sons 1966 added collection eye-witness testimony news paper magazine clippings other evidence work Whitehead 1978 ODwyer Randolph jointly compiled History Contract published Germany Fritz Majer & Son expanded initial work added considerable documentary support premise Whitehead made suc cessful flights Wrights still learning fly kites gliders through long grind trying convince world missed some thing important has puzzling presence Smithsonian Institution its National Air & Space Museum Widely considered leading authority matters aeronautical history popular museum Washington DC has shown suspicious lack enthusiasm entire Whitehead matter its people called Whithead hoax mid-1970s ODwyer enlisted support Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker force Smithsonian release copy long-denied contract between estate Orville Wright sheds con siderable light odd behavior national museum makes clear Smithsonian prohibited contract supporting publishing claim airplane capable true flight existed before Wrights flew late 1903 agreement violated treasured airplanes reverts Wright heirs could removed National Air & Space Museum sent elsewhere Such contract appears totally odds basic purpose museums 90 Model Aviation wniteneaa ana flis little daughter Rose under wing #21 airplane reportedly flew times 1901 twin counter-rotating propellers front Whitehead second left several associates pose casually beside type #21 may well have worlds first successful airplane engine front like used drive wheels tor takeoff Close-up ot engine engine mount propeller ot Whiteheads #21 airplane present accurate picture history possible theory least Smithsonian would have ignore abso lute proof someone flew before Wrights lose priceless centerpiece its Milestones Flight hall look conditions existed time contract may help explain peculiar action 1928 Wright 1903 Flyer sent Science Museum London England displayed first successful airplane world time Smithsonian refused recog nize Wrights first fly preferring grant title its own Prof Samuel Langley secretary Smithson ian ill-founded attempts fly 1903 ended Aerodrome flopped awk wardly Potomac River wasnt until 1948 Smithsonian ready join rest free world recognizing Wrights fathers flight order get airplane back England display Washington agree restrictive unusual conditions contract though rival claims feared primarily worn-out ones about Langley leading museum its respected historians unable consider evidence Whitehead flew before Wrights up Bill ODwyer carry load would have seek out evidence wit nesses reasons believe unknown inventor deserves place early history aviation crusade could easily have just fruitless efforts prove someone besides Wrights deserves honor having first Clement Ader Felix Du Temple France Sir Hiram Maxim Percey Pilcher Eng land Carl Jatho Germany Alexander Mozhaisky Russia others still have scattering supporters other instance has pretty well proven best men did still category hop airplane may have lifted itself briefly never achieved sustained controlled flight few feet down slight incline simply enough qualify having flown 1902 today case Gustave Whitehead claims true flightsmany over significant distances Louis Darvarich says 1934 signed notarized statement flew Whitehead Pittsburgh PA height 20-25 feet distance about half milein spring 1899 4/2 years before Kitty Hawk full 1/2 years after New York Tribune major newspaper ran article about Whiteheads aerial experiments fellow inventors must have read 1900 Whitehead moved Bridge port CT continued build seems fly airplanes ODwyer has possession signed notarized statements quantityand some tape videotape recordingsin neighbors co-workers passers-by describe airplane flights Whitehead say saw eyes Among 1901 flights attested persons 300 feet distance 15 feet altitude seen Thomas Schwei kert boy sworn 1936 John Fekete stated 1948 May June 1901 watched Whitehead fly 30 feet Continued page 159 March 1983 91 II Hg. surprisingly clean lines aI. orplane eviun Iruni mis angle three-view drawing Bjorn Karlstrom originally appeared American Aircraft Modeler magazine drawing developed photographic references such appear article /7 \\\\\ N7 1038 West Elmer Rd Vineland NJ 08360 Gustave Whitehead/Berliner Continued page 91 distance about 200 feet same vein June 1901 major articles about Whitehead New York Herald Scientaic American latter weekly magazine leading publication US covering sorts advanced experimentation As such surely read everyone seriously trying build air plane including Octave Chanute Wright brothers article may have moti vated Wrights visit Whitehead sev eral witnesses claim have seen August 14 1901 first several major flights apparently made Whitehead Bridgeport reporter Bridegport Herald watching said have flown approximately half mile high 40 feet above ground described great colorful detail Sundat Herald August 18 well next days Boston Transcript New York Herald 1934 Junius Harworth associate Ti iK N CA 6409 Airfoil THERMIC 72' Pod 72 Wingspan 410 Sc1 Area Postage & Handling add $295 CA ZAIC CO INC 883 Lexington Ave Brooklyn New Vark Heads up Power Panel POWER starter-pump-plug AMMETER indication plug condition ALL 12-Volt battery Battery Cord Mating Plugs 3 x 5 Easy Mounting Only Designed 2G 44f4 Trainermaster Good first low wing airplane. easy build n fly U Wingspan 53 U Engine 35-45 U Wing Area 575 sq U Weight 4V2-5 lbs ANDRE AIRCRAFT MODEL COMPANY P0 BOX 721 URBANA LNOS6 80 Available local hobby shop division Great Planes Model 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effect 1 present assisted occasion 8/14/01 Mr Whitehead succeeded flying machine propelled motor height 200 feet off ground sea beach Lord ship Manor Connecticut distance flown approximately mile half lasted best knowledge four minutes works out little over 20 mph reasonable design power attributed airplane Harworth went describe engine con struction airplane said weighed about 800 pounds flights several others apparently made Whitehead airplane #21 Unlike designs of pre tenders Wrights throne display little no aeronautical logic #21 looks like flyable airplane fact models have flown successfully though numer ous rumors full-size reproductions have yet develop hardware Now just because airplane looks like should fly models have flown doesnt mean ever left ground design based solid reasoning sub sequently borne out successful similar airplanes suggests its creator used good engineering headed right direction Whitehead #21 ariplane did spring full grown its inventors imagination direct descendant earlier designs logical development years work others 1809/10 Sir George Cayley published first known description what has since become monoplance design 1842 William Henson also England patented Aerial Steam Carriage wire-braced monoplane fan-shaped tail rear two pusher propellers driven single engine 1848 associate John Stringfel low built flew 10-foot steam-powered model modified Henson design reported 120 feet now-common frontwinged monoplane already progressed theory reasonably stable model large size Efforts create man-carrying mono plane moved ahead steadily 1864 SILK DISCOUNTS ON 50 YD ROLLS 44VYD White $495/rD RedYell Royal Blue Fine Qualify Model Building Ally LengfhMox 5OYd SILK COVERS BEST LIGHT- STRONG- ECONOMICAL SHIPPING ADO 50 FOREIGN 150/ ORDER &Y RES Add 4% BROWNSELL FLAG B DECAL CO 121 LAUREL ROAD NEW CITY NY 914-634- 8500 10956 160 Model Aviation E SOPWITH CAMEL Flight restedContest P-u. First Place AMA Scale Rhinebeck 1982 Built & Flown George Rosa Scale 2 1 Engine 60 Send 75 latest price list & literature VK MODEL AIRCRAFT CO 4350 Arondale Williaesvilie NY 14221 Phone 716 632-4838 Count DEsterno Italy published design monoplane highly tapered wing front fan-shaped tail rear both ideas later adopted Whitehead though have propelled flap ping its wings 1874 Felix Du Temple officer French Navy built swept-forward mono plane reportedly lifted young sailor short flight down ramp 1884 Alexander Mozhaisky built large mono plane Russia may have made sim ilar non-sustaining flight steam power designs featured wing front tail back like several hundred thou sand airpanes built past 50 years unlike Wright airplanes Whitehead s#21 also layout can assume based work some prior designs rather creating scratch no doubt seemed quicker sensi ble way go certainly obvious retrospect earliest Whitehead experiments anything known today date back 1897 working ornithopter flapping wing airplane conjunction Boston Aeronautical Society reported New York Tribune October year article strongly sug gested Whitehead basing work long study bird flight common early aeronauts Soon efforts turned toward fixed-wing airplanes powered internal combustion engines own design several dif ferent types major drawback powered flight days lack powerful lightweight dependable engine Like Wrights Whitehead could find com mercial engine fit needs forced design build own flying #21 August 14 1901 may have covered /2 1 /2 miles steam power heat provided burning either gas acetylene according sworn testimony Cecil Steeves As youngster Steeves saw least flight Whitehead machine went estimated 700 feet cleared telephone wires least 20 feet high airplane displayed publicly Atlan tic City NJ September 1901 years WFfAM Show going largest yet Well ones 150 manufacturers other ex hibitors huon already signed up bring enerything thats new hobby -- kitn engines radios accessories enerything between famous Sway Shop will full operation thousands items including built-up planes ulmont new radios engines on some thing just about eceryone ADVANCED TICKEE SALES Sane time --- anoid long ticket lines act Ed Aleoin 1507 Central Park Ace Yonkers NY 157t5 gld-337-hk32 la ii N STATIC COMPErITION Make sure latest creation finished up yolisheO youll hace chance take home dozens trophies ottered cOents e0arLcarTaflS roar uc 005 scsi aol roars rosa en i ouaa-u 550150 nc roars 5SOrT 5505 cor across 00 arasra5T-c-5o00 Judging taken place Sursay otternoon Carrion acceyred until tO Sour Suaday Special admonniar area ciii ho yro sioro ne Seth dayn nlatic dlnyay aurleotasts uitfl boils-up models Whiteheads type #22 somewhat modified version #21 reported have made flights two seven miles over Long Island Sound January 17 1901 No first-hand account flights known exist though Whiteheads assistant Anton Pruckner stated writing heard about amazing flights several per- sons claimed have present long after American Inventor magazine published letter Gustave Whitehead described length type p22 including its dimensions con struction operation included two quite clear ground photographs type #2l airplanes same letter invited editor see airplane photgraph Oeoslrarior models will stue 030 am mosaicS SWAP SHOP Tsr WOOMs coop Shop ran come oar 05 mobs nPOo astrac hoes wotO troanaron iadiodsal sewn charoiro saads help elimIsate sen ntaaOaacaunS Sway Shah 011 procior pararOis Oaotioa Soawn recolor snese roams seOO nrr-adorenned stamped aroelope Joha lnaintea 4 Oncue ff0 Laaorsmoaa ST 10530 SPCCIAL NOTE Thin yeaarnerru II ox aentriusOas ape romnor hour-up modem aognlaaaO may place swap Shop surreal ieroaesarioo carse 50 ltaeO Siesoem T500000c 50 VOOre pleser 5 F 50004054 ras-asab upsaceasrcr auclo uaRoeooELcrs Inc lebruary 26/21 lOAM to6PM flight suggests high level selfconfidence Whiteheads part Plans additional flights type #22 spring 1902 seem have come pass airplane said have deteriorated parked outdoors weather Future work Whitehead headed off another direction despite success monoplanes Undue influence financial backer Stanley Beach son editor Scientific American appar ently major factor starting 1905 Articles appeared Aeronauti cal World magazine late 1902 903 described proposed type #23 having single horizontal surface front triplane wings back what sounds like heli MAJESTIC RMAN FIGHTER ErnseoSco RIGINALFACTORSL. ocular scale 110cr aullo arrohoac excel eat urooso nardlno cr50 slauro two-poeco worn Scale a- ara ISOOaI 0 Ft 74 5 burr OTIbS USE TCRAFT ga/a WIRE WHEELS f 650 PR Orher supero uaea-ucole p1050 sI see 9 PTt 5 Guadra Kb 52500 Pall nice aetWIel plans PP1 $2500 tOO Faoegn Mesnuitu Guedra $2400 SO FarerOn Musqaile 40-SO Enar-opele St 700 Plars sear Oiled iP 0 POST uio oar ge oroers aud 40101 aaraai desaedOera aaoo tar Orocnaaes TuaIoacaair plars ollrar05 AMA Clubs Giant Scalers Save 30%Order Direct Buckeye Balsa supplies AAA quality balsa certified aircraft 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Edition: Model Aviation - 1983/03
Page Numbers: 88, 89, 90, 91, 159, 160, 161, 162
Gustave Wh itehead WAS HE FIRST really first make controlled powered flight airplane may ever conclusive proof answer question growing evidence Gustave Whitehead may have beaten Wright brothers punch several yearsE Don Berliner IF ANYONE DOUBTS Gustave Whitehead has able fly limited distance least aeroplane such doubts can dispelled viewing photographs flight south win dow Lyon & Grummans hardware store Main Street two pictures window showing Whitehead aeroplane about 20 feet ground sailing along course has perfected inven tion says has frequently flown over half mile picked up copy October 1 1904 edition Bridgeport CT Daily Standard read short item what would have thought Remember no yet paid serious attention report two bicycle builders Ohio flown airplane 10 months before Kitty Hawk NC around Bridgeport flights Whitehead apparently well-known early 1901 Lots people seen airplanes also seen full flight may almost no references work standard avia tion history books theres growing pile testimony pointing strong possibility German immigrant first man fly airplane Today Gustave Whitehead making lot people nervous though hes dead 50 years what claimed have done 80 years ago turns out true very important fact aviation history will have changed lot people will have change thinking writers historians monument builders others repu tations could endangered claims Whitehead accepted makes people uncomfortable What being claimed Whitehead nothing less very first true flight airplane As early 1901 perhaps 1899 said have flown heavier-than-air device under control considerable distanceat least far first flights Wright brothers Kitty Hawk 1903 status Orville Wilbur Wright men reponsible first flight airplane seemed solid Edi sons invention electric light until Connecticut historian ish recall aeronautical world fact America belongs credit pro ducing first successful motordriven aeroplane such men Wright brothers M Herring Gustave Whitehead longs real credit having pro duced first successful heavierthan-air flying machines Scientific American January 25 1908 Photos Gustave Weisskopf Museum Leutershausen West Germany via William ODwyer name William ODwyer discovered what learned little-known student subject proceeded collect evidence pre-Wright flights Now no about challenge Wright brothers position fathers airplane work led airplanes know today Similarly no would question status Chris topher Columbus man voyages led settling Americas Europeans just strong possibility others got western side Atlantic Ocean long before Columbus growing evidence someone flew powered airplane several years before Kitty Hawk isnt question made terribly important contributions world history merely deserves credit having first Christopher Orville Wilbur make permanent what others quite possibly did before life pro ceeded develop what know today Still history growing collection facts rather set con clusions carved stone historians must willing consider new fact new theory its own merits no room bias fan wants team win isnt playing very well will probably never proven Gustave Whitehead type No 21 airplane Fairfield Ave nue flying field Bridgeport CT inventor standing front airplane holding engines used power wheels airplane its takeoff run 1 F enigmauc inventor 1902 1903 engines Note unusual bundle wire cooling fins apparent ease Whitehead lifting engine high general layout Whiteheads #21 airplane shows strong similarity earlier designs du Temple Mozhaisky othersbut Wright brothers Wttitehead flew before Wrights nt Its just too late definitive research question de mands nothing existence parties would consider proof Videotape movie film short supply turn century community leaders may have witnessed flying no longer among us About best anyone can hope collect old testimony accounts pub lished reputable journals day try assemble reasonable story what may have happened After isnt what has done flights Orville Wilbur Kitty Hawk December 17 1903 historic trips made benefit network TV coverage fact Wrights main witnesses own flights now-classic photo 1903 Flyer leav ing ground its maiden flight report edly wasnt seen public five years accumulation testimony photo raphs other bits evidence has consuming passion Bill ODwyer lives Fairfield CT just few miles Whitehead conducted exper iments Bill picked up Stella Ran dolph left off after writing two obscure books Lost Flights Gustave Whitehead 1937 Before Wrights Flew G P Putnams Sons 1966 added collection eye-witness testimony news paper magazine clippings other evidence work Whitehead 1978 ODwyer Randolph jointly compiled History Contract published Germany Fritz Majer & Son expanded initial work added considerable documentary support premise Whitehead made suc cessful flights Wrights still learning fly kites gliders through long grind trying convince world missed some thing important has puzzling presence Smithsonian Institution its National Air & Space Museum Widely considered leading authority matters aeronautical history popular museum Washington DC has shown suspicious lack enthusiasm entire Whitehead matter its people called Whithead hoax mid-1970s ODwyer enlisted support Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker force Smithsonian release copy long-denied contract between estate Orville Wright sheds con siderable light odd behavior national museum makes clear Smithsonian prohibited contract supporting publishing claim airplane capable true flight existed before Wrights flew late 1903 agreement violated treasured airplanes reverts Wright heirs could removed National Air & Space Museum sent elsewhere Such contract appears totally odds basic purpose museums 90 Model Aviation wniteneaa ana flis little daughter Rose under wing #21 airplane reportedly flew times 1901 twin counter-rotating propellers front Whitehead second left several associates pose casually beside type #21 may well have worlds first successful airplane engine front like used drive wheels tor takeoff Close-up ot engine engine mount propeller ot Whiteheads #21 airplane present accurate picture history possible theory least Smithsonian would have ignore abso lute proof someone flew before Wrights lose priceless centerpiece its Milestones Flight hall look conditions existed time contract may help explain peculiar action 1928 Wright 1903 Flyer sent Science Museum London England displayed first successful airplane world time Smithsonian refused recog nize Wrights first fly preferring grant title its own Prof Samuel Langley secretary Smithson ian ill-founded attempts fly 1903 ended Aerodrome flopped awk wardly Potomac River wasnt until 1948 Smithsonian ready join rest free world recognizing Wrights fathers flight order get airplane back England display Washington agree restrictive unusual conditions contract though rival claims feared primarily worn-out ones about Langley leading museum its respected historians unable consider evidence Whitehead flew before Wrights up Bill ODwyer carry load would have seek out evidence wit nesses reasons believe unknown inventor deserves place early history aviation crusade could easily have just fruitless efforts prove someone besides Wrights deserves honor having first Clement Ader Felix Du Temple France Sir Hiram Maxim Percey Pilcher Eng land Carl Jatho Germany Alexander Mozhaisky Russia others still have scattering supporters other instance has pretty well proven best men did still category hop airplane may have lifted itself briefly never achieved sustained controlled flight few feet down slight incline simply enough qualify having flown 1902 today case Gustave Whitehead claims true flightsmany over significant distances Louis Darvarich says 1934 signed notarized statement flew Whitehead Pittsburgh PA height 20-25 feet distance about half milein spring 1899 4/2 years before Kitty Hawk full 1/2 years after New York Tribune major newspaper ran article about Whiteheads aerial experiments fellow inventors must have read 1900 Whitehead moved Bridge port CT continued build seems fly airplanes ODwyer has possession signed notarized statements quantityand some tape videotape recordingsin neighbors co-workers passers-by describe airplane flights Whitehead say saw eyes Among 1901 flights attested persons 300 feet distance 15 feet altitude seen Thomas Schwei kert boy sworn 1936 John Fekete stated 1948 May June 1901 watched Whitehead fly 30 feet Continued page 159 March 1983 91 II Hg. surprisingly clean lines aI. orplane eviun Iruni mis angle three-view drawing Bjorn Karlstrom originally appeared American Aircraft Modeler magazine drawing developed photographic references such appear article /7 \\\\\ N7 1038 West Elmer Rd Vineland NJ 08360 Gustave Whitehead/Berliner Continued page 91 distance about 200 feet same vein June 1901 major articles about Whitehead New York Herald Scientaic American latter weekly magazine leading publication US covering sorts advanced experimentation As such surely read everyone seriously trying build air plane 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effect 1 present assisted occasion 8/14/01 Mr Whitehead succeeded flying machine propelled motor height 200 feet off ground sea beach Lord ship Manor Connecticut distance flown approximately mile half lasted best knowledge four minutes works out little over 20 mph reasonable design power attributed airplane Harworth went describe engine con struction airplane said weighed about 800 pounds flights several others apparently made Whitehead airplane #21 Unlike designs of pre tenders Wrights throne display little no aeronautical logic #21 looks like flyable airplane fact models have flown successfully though numer ous rumors full-size reproductions have yet develop hardware Now just because airplane looks like should fly models have flown doesnt mean ever left ground design based solid reasoning sub sequently borne out successful similar airplanes suggests its creator used good engineering headed right direction Whitehead #21 ariplane did spring full grown its inventors imagination direct descendant earlier designs logical development years work others 1809/10 Sir George Cayley published first known description what has since become monoplance design 1842 William Henson also England patented Aerial Steam Carriage wire-braced monoplane fan-shaped tail rear two pusher propellers driven single engine 1848 associate John Stringfel low built flew 10-foot steam-powered model modified Henson design reported 120 feet now-common frontwinged monoplane already progressed theory reasonably stable model large size Efforts create man-carrying mono plane moved ahead steadily 1864 SILK DISCOUNTS ON 50 YD ROLLS 44VYD White $495/rD RedYell Royal Blue Fine Qualify Model Building Ally LengfhMox 5OYd SILK COVERS BEST LIGHT- STRONG- ECONOMICAL SHIPPING ADO 50 FOREIGN 150/ ORDER &Y RES Add 4% BROWNSELL FLAG B DECAL CO 121 LAUREL ROAD NEW CITY NY 914-634- 8500 10956 160 Model Aviation E SOPWITH CAMEL Flight restedContest P-u. First Place AMA Scale Rhinebeck 1982 Built & Flown George Rosa Scale 2 1 Engine 60 Send 75 latest price list & literature VK MODEL AIRCRAFT CO 4350 Arondale Williaesvilie NY 14221 Phone 716 632-4838 Count DEsterno Italy published design monoplane highly tapered wing front fan-shaped tail rear both ideas later adopted Whitehead though have propelled flap ping its wings 1874 Felix Du Temple officer French Navy built swept-forward mono plane reportedly lifted young sailor short flight down ramp 1884 Alexander Mozhaisky built large mono plane Russia may have made sim ilar non-sustaining flight steam power designs featured wing front tail back like several hundred thou sand airpanes built past 50 years unlike Wright airplanes Whitehead s#21 also layout can assume based work some prior designs rather creating scratch no doubt seemed quicker sensi ble way go certainly obvious retrospect earliest Whitehead experiments anything known today date back 1897 working ornithopter flapping wing airplane conjunction Boston Aeronautical Society reported New York Tribune October year article strongly sug gested Whitehead basing work long study bird flight common early aeronauts Soon efforts turned toward fixed-wing airplanes powered internal combustion engines own design several dif ferent types major drawback powered flight days lack powerful lightweight dependable engine Like Wrights Whitehead could find com mercial engine fit needs forced design build own flying #21 August 14 1901 may have covered /2 1 /2 miles steam power heat provided burning either gas acetylene according sworn testimony Cecil Steeves As youngster Steeves saw least flight Whitehead machine went estimated 700 feet cleared telephone wires least 20 feet high airplane displayed publicly Atlan tic City NJ September 1901 years WFfAM Show going largest yet Well ones 150 manufacturers other ex hibitors huon already signed up bring enerything thats new hobby -- kitn engines radios accessories enerything between famous Sway Shop will full operation thousands items including built-up planes ulmont new radios engines on some thing just about eceryone ADVANCED TICKEE SALES Sane time --- anoid long ticket lines act Ed Aleoin 1507 Central Park Ace Yonkers NY 157t5 gld-337-hk32 la ii N STATIC COMPErITION Make sure latest creation finished up yolisheO youll hace chance take home dozens trophies ottered cOents e0arLcarTaflS roar uc 005 scsi aol roars rosa en i ouaa-u 550150 nc roars 5SOrT 5505 cor across 00 arasra5T-c-5o00 Judging taken place Sursay otternoon Carrion acceyred until tO Sour Suaday Special admonniar area ciii ho yro sioro ne Seth dayn nlatic dlnyay aurleotasts uitfl boils-up models Whiteheads type #22 somewhat modified version #21 reported have made flights two seven miles over Long Island Sound January 17 1901 No first-hand account flights known exist though Whiteheads assistant Anton Pruckner stated writing heard about amazing flights several per- sons claimed have present long after American Inventor magazine published letter Gustave Whitehead described length type p22 including its dimensions con struction operation included two quite clear ground photographs type #2l airplanes same letter invited editor see airplane photgraph Oeoslrarior models will stue 030 am mosaicS SWAP SHOP Tsr WOOMs coop Shop ran come oar 05 mobs nPOo astrac hoes wotO troanaron iadiodsal sewn charoiro saads help elimIsate sen ntaaOaacaunS Sway Shah 011 procior pararOis Oaotioa Soawn recolor snese roams seOO nrr-adorenned stamped aroelope Joha lnaintea 4 Oncue ff0 Laaorsmoaa ST 10530 SPCCIAL NOTE Thin yeaarnerru II ox aentriusOas ape romnor hour-up modem aognlaaaO may place swap Shop surreal ieroaesarioo carse 50 ltaeO Siesoem T500000c 50 VOOre pleser 5 F 50004054 ras-asab upsaceasrcr auclo uaRoeooELcrs Inc lebruary 26/21 lOAM to6PM flight suggests high level selfconfidence Whiteheads part Plans additional flights type #22 spring 1902 seem have come pass airplane said have deteriorated parked outdoors weather Future work Whitehead headed off another direction despite success monoplanes Undue influence financial backer Stanley Beach son editor Scientific American appar ently major factor starting 1905 Articles appeared Aeronauti cal World magazine late 1902 903 described proposed type #23 having single horizontal surface front triplane wings back what sounds like heli MAJESTIC RMAN FIGHTER ErnseoSco RIGINALFACTORSL. ocular scale 110cr aullo arrohoac excel eat urooso nardlno cr50 slauro two-poeco worn Scale a- ara ISOOaI 0 Ft 74 5 burr OTIbS USE TCRAFT ga/a WIRE WHEELS f 650 PR Orher supero uaea-ucole p1050 sI see 9 PTt 5 Guadra Kb 52500 Pall nice aetWIel plans PP1 $2500 tOO Faoegn Mesnuitu Guedra $2400 SO FarerOn Musqaile 40-SO Enar-opele St 700 Plars sear Oiled iP 0 POST uio oar ge oroers aud 40101 aaraai desaedOera aaoo tar Orocnaaes TuaIoacaair plars ollrar05 AMA Clubs Giant Scalers Save 30%Order Direct Buckeye Balsa supplies AAA quality balsa certified aircraft 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Edition: Model Aviation - 1983/03
Page Numbers: 88, 89, 90, 91, 159, 160, 161, 162
Gustave Wh itehead WAS HE FIRST really first make controlled powered flight airplane may ever conclusive proof answer question growing evidence Gustave Whitehead may have beaten Wright brothers punch several yearsE Don Berliner IF ANYONE DOUBTS Gustave Whitehead has able fly limited distance least aeroplane such doubts can dispelled viewing photographs flight south win dow Lyon & Grummans hardware store Main Street two pictures window showing Whitehead aeroplane about 20 feet ground sailing along course has perfected inven tion says has frequently flown over half mile picked up copy October 1 1904 edition Bridgeport CT Daily Standard read short item what would have thought Remember no yet paid serious attention report two bicycle builders Ohio flown airplane 10 months before Kitty Hawk NC around Bridgeport flights Whitehead apparently well-known early 1901 Lots people seen airplanes also seen full flight may almost no references work standard avia tion history books theres growing pile testimony pointing strong possibility German immigrant first man fly airplane Today Gustave Whitehead making lot people nervous though hes dead 50 years what claimed have done 80 years ago turns out true very important fact aviation history will have changed lot people will have change thinking writers historians monument builders others repu tations could endangered claims Whitehead accepted makes people uncomfortable What being claimed Whitehead nothing less very first true flight airplane As early 1901 perhaps 1899 said have flown heavier-than-air device under control considerable distanceat least far first flights Wright brothers Kitty Hawk 1903 status Orville Wilbur Wright men reponsible first flight airplane seemed solid Edi sons invention electric light until Connecticut historian ish recall aeronautical world fact America belongs credit pro ducing first successful motordriven aeroplane such men Wright brothers M Herring Gustave Whitehead longs real credit having pro duced first successful heavierthan-air flying machines Scientific American January 25 1908 Photos Gustave Weisskopf Museum Leutershausen West Germany via William ODwyer name William ODwyer discovered what learned little-known student subject proceeded collect evidence pre-Wright flights Now no about challenge Wright brothers position fathers airplane work led airplanes know today Similarly no would question status Chris topher Columbus man voyages led settling Americas Europeans just strong possibility others got western side Atlantic Ocean long before Columbus growing evidence someone flew powered airplane several years before Kitty Hawk isnt question made terribly important contributions world history merely deserves credit having first Christopher Orville Wilbur make permanent what others quite possibly did before life pro ceeded develop what know today Still history growing collection facts rather set con clusions carved stone historians must willing consider new fact new theory its own merits no room bias fan wants team win isnt playing very well will probably never proven Gustave Whitehead type No 21 airplane Fairfield Ave nue flying field Bridgeport CT inventor standing front airplane holding engines used power wheels airplane its takeoff run 1 F enigmauc inventor 1902 1903 engines Note unusual bundle wire cooling fins apparent ease Whitehead lifting engine high general layout Whiteheads #21 airplane shows strong similarity earlier designs du Temple Mozhaisky othersbut Wright brothers Wttitehead flew before Wrights nt Its just too late definitive research question de mands nothing existence parties would consider proof Videotape movie film short supply turn century community leaders may have witnessed flying no longer among us About best anyone can hope collect old testimony accounts pub lished reputable journals day try assemble reasonable story what may have happened After isnt what has done flights Orville Wilbur Kitty Hawk December 17 1903 historic trips made benefit network TV coverage fact Wrights main witnesses own flights now-classic photo 1903 Flyer leav ing ground its maiden flight report edly wasnt seen public five years accumulation testimony photo raphs other bits evidence has consuming passion Bill ODwyer lives Fairfield CT just few miles Whitehead conducted exper iments Bill picked up Stella Ran dolph left off after writing two obscure books Lost Flights Gustave Whitehead 1937 Before Wrights Flew G P Putnams Sons 1966 added collection eye-witness testimony news paper magazine clippings other evidence work Whitehead 1978 ODwyer Randolph jointly compiled History Contract published Germany Fritz Majer & Son expanded initial work added considerable documentary support premise Whitehead made suc cessful flights Wrights still learning fly kites gliders through long grind trying convince world missed some thing important has puzzling presence Smithsonian Institution its National Air & Space Museum Widely considered leading authority matters aeronautical history popular museum Washington DC has shown suspicious lack enthusiasm entire Whitehead matter its people called Whithead hoax mid-1970s ODwyer enlisted support Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker force Smithsonian release copy long-denied contract between estate Orville Wright sheds con siderable light odd behavior national museum makes clear Smithsonian prohibited contract supporting publishing claim airplane capable true flight existed before Wrights flew late 1903 agreement violated treasured airplanes reverts Wright heirs could removed National Air & Space Museum sent elsewhere Such contract appears totally odds basic purpose museums 90 Model Aviation wniteneaa ana flis little daughter Rose under wing #21 airplane reportedly flew times 1901 twin counter-rotating propellers front Whitehead second left several associates pose casually beside type #21 may well have worlds first successful airplane engine front like used drive wheels tor takeoff Close-up ot engine engine mount propeller ot Whiteheads #21 airplane present accurate picture history possible theory least Smithsonian would have ignore abso lute proof someone flew before Wrights lose priceless centerpiece its Milestones Flight hall look conditions existed time contract may help explain peculiar action 1928 Wright 1903 Flyer sent Science Museum London England displayed first successful airplane world time Smithsonian refused recog nize Wrights first fly preferring grant title its own Prof Samuel Langley secretary Smithson ian ill-founded attempts fly 1903 ended Aerodrome flopped awk wardly Potomac River wasnt until 1948 Smithsonian ready join rest free world recognizing Wrights fathers flight order get airplane back England display Washington agree restrictive unusual conditions contract though rival claims feared primarily worn-out ones about Langley leading museum its respected historians unable consider evidence Whitehead flew before Wrights up Bill ODwyer carry load would have seek out evidence wit nesses reasons believe unknown inventor deserves place early history aviation crusade could easily have just fruitless efforts prove someone besides Wrights deserves honor having first Clement Ader Felix Du Temple France Sir Hiram Maxim Percey Pilcher Eng land Carl Jatho Germany Alexander Mozhaisky Russia others still have scattering supporters other instance has pretty well proven best men did still category hop airplane may have lifted itself briefly never achieved sustained controlled flight few feet down slight incline simply enough qualify having flown 1902 today case Gustave Whitehead claims true flightsmany over significant distances Louis Darvarich says 1934 signed notarized statement flew Whitehead Pittsburgh PA height 20-25 feet distance about half milein spring 1899 4/2 years before Kitty Hawk full 1/2 years after New York Tribune major newspaper ran article about Whiteheads aerial experiments fellow inventors must have read 1900 Whitehead moved Bridge port CT continued build seems fly airplanes ODwyer has possession signed notarized statements quantityand some tape videotape recordingsin neighbors co-workers passers-by describe airplane flights Whitehead say saw eyes Among 1901 flights attested persons 300 feet distance 15 feet altitude seen Thomas Schwei kert boy sworn 1936 John Fekete stated 1948 May June 1901 watched Whitehead fly 30 feet Continued page 159 March 1983 91 II Hg. surprisingly clean lines aI. orplane eviun Iruni mis angle three-view drawing Bjorn Karlstrom originally appeared American Aircraft Modeler magazine drawing developed photographic references such appear article /7 \\\\\ N7 1038 West Elmer Rd Vineland NJ 08360 Gustave Whitehead/Berliner Continued page 91 distance about 200 feet same vein June 1901 major articles about Whitehead New York Herald Scientaic American latter weekly magazine leading publication US covering sorts advanced experimentation As such surely read everyone seriously trying build air plane including Octave Chanute Wright brothers article may have moti vated Wrights visit Whitehead sev eral witnesses claim have seen August 14 1901 first several major flights apparently made Whitehead Bridgeport reporter Bridegport Herald watching said have flown approximately half mile high 40 feet above ground described great colorful detail Sundat Herald August 18 well next days Boston Transcript New York Herald 1934 Junius Harworth associate Ti iK N CA 6409 Airfoil THERMIC 72' Pod 72 Wingspan 410 Sc1 Area Postage & Handling add $295 CA ZAIC CO INC 883 Lexington Ave Brooklyn New Vark Heads up Power Panel POWER starter-pump-plug AMMETER indication plug condition ALL 12-Volt battery Battery Cord Mating Plugs 3 x 5 Easy Mounting Only Designed 2G 44f4 Trainermaster Good first low wing airplane. easy build n fly U Wingspan 53 U Engine 35-45 U Wing Area 575 sq U Weight 4V2-5 lbs ANDRE AIRCRAFT MODEL COMPANY P0 BOX 721 URBANA LNOS6 80 Available local hobby shop division Great Planes Model 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effect 1 present assisted occasion 8/14/01 Mr Whitehead succeeded flying machine propelled motor height 200 feet off ground sea beach Lord ship Manor Connecticut distance flown approximately mile half lasted best knowledge four minutes works out little over 20 mph reasonable design power attributed airplane Harworth went describe engine con struction airplane said weighed about 800 pounds flights several others apparently made Whitehead airplane #21 Unlike designs of pre tenders Wrights throne display little no aeronautical logic #21 looks like flyable airplane fact models have flown successfully though numer ous rumors full-size reproductions have yet develop hardware Now just because airplane looks like should fly models have flown doesnt mean ever left ground design based solid reasoning sub sequently borne out successful similar airplanes suggests its creator used good engineering headed right direction Whitehead #21 ariplane did spring full grown its inventors imagination direct descendant earlier designs logical development years work others 1809/10 Sir George Cayley published first known description what has since become monoplance design 1842 William Henson also England patented Aerial Steam Carriage wire-braced monoplane fan-shaped tail rear two pusher propellers driven single engine 1848 associate John Stringfel low built flew 10-foot steam-powered model modified Henson design reported 120 feet now-common frontwinged monoplane already progressed theory reasonably stable model large size Efforts create man-carrying mono plane moved ahead steadily 1864 SILK DISCOUNTS ON 50 YD ROLLS 44VYD White $495/rD RedYell Royal Blue Fine Qualify Model Building Ally LengfhMox 5OYd SILK COVERS BEST LIGHT- STRONG- ECONOMICAL SHIPPING ADO 50 FOREIGN 150/ ORDER &Y RES Add 4% BROWNSELL FLAG B DECAL CO 121 LAUREL ROAD NEW CITY NY 914-634- 8500 10956 160 Model Aviation E SOPWITH CAMEL Flight restedContest P-u. 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airplane conjunction Boston Aeronautical Society reported New York Tribune October year article strongly sug gested Whitehead basing work long study bird flight common early aeronauts Soon efforts turned toward fixed-wing airplanes powered internal combustion engines own design several dif ferent types major drawback powered flight days lack powerful lightweight dependable engine Like Wrights Whitehead could find com mercial engine fit needs forced design build own flying #21 August 14 1901 may have covered /2 1 /2 miles steam power heat provided burning either gas acetylene according sworn testimony Cecil Steeves As youngster Steeves saw least flight Whitehead machine went estimated 700 feet cleared telephone wires least 20 feet high airplane displayed publicly Atlan tic City NJ September 1901 years WFfAM Show going largest yet Well ones 150 manufacturers other ex hibitors huon already signed up bring enerything thats new hobby -- kitn engines radios accessories enerything between famous Sway Shop will full operation thousands items including built-up planes ulmont new radios engines on some thing just about eceryone ADVANCED TICKEE SALES Sane time --- anoid long ticket lines act Ed Aleoin 1507 Central Park Ace Yonkers NY 157t5 gld-337-hk32 la ii N STATIC COMPErITION Make sure latest creation finished up yolisheO youll hace chance take home dozens trophies ottered cOents e0arLcarTaflS roar uc 005 scsi aol roars rosa en i ouaa-u 550150 nc roars 5SOrT 5505 cor across 00 arasra5T-c-5o00 Judging taken place Sursay otternoon Carrion acceyred until tO Sour Suaday Special admonniar area ciii ho yro sioro ne Seth dayn nlatic dlnyay aurleotasts uitfl boils-up models Whiteheads type #22 somewhat modified version #21 reported have made flights two seven miles over Long Island Sound January 17 1901 No first-hand account flights known exist though Whiteheads assistant Anton Pruckner stated writing heard about amazing flights several per- sons claimed have present long after American Inventor magazine published letter Gustave Whitehead described length type p22 including its dimensions con struction operation included two quite clear ground photographs type #2l airplanes same letter invited editor see airplane photgraph Oeoslrarior models will stue 030 am mosaicS SWAP SHOP Tsr WOOMs coop Shop ran come oar 05 mobs nPOo astrac hoes wotO troanaron iadiodsal sewn charoiro saads help elimIsate sen ntaaOaacaunS Sway Shah 011 procior pararOis Oaotioa Soawn recolor snese roams seOO nrr-adorenned stamped aroelope Joha lnaintea 4 Oncue ff0 Laaorsmoaa ST 10530 SPCCIAL NOTE Thin yeaarnerru II ox aentriusOas ape romnor hour-up modem aognlaaaO may place swap Shop surreal ieroaesarioo carse 50 ltaeO Siesoem T500000c 50 VOOre pleser 5 F 50004054 ras-asab upsaceasrcr auclo uaRoeooELcrs Inc lebruary 26/21 lOAM to6PM flight suggests high level selfconfidence Whiteheads part Plans additional flights type #22 spring 1902 seem have come pass airplane said have deteriorated 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Gustave Wh itehead WAS HE FIRST really first make controlled powered flight airplane may ever conclusive proof answer question growing evidence Gustave Whitehead may have beaten Wright brothers punch several yearsE Don Berliner IF ANYONE DOUBTS Gustave Whitehead has able fly limited distance least aeroplane such doubts can dispelled viewing photographs flight south win dow Lyon & Grummans hardware store Main Street two pictures window showing Whitehead aeroplane about 20 feet ground sailing along course has perfected inven tion says has frequently flown over half mile picked up copy October 1 1904 edition Bridgeport CT Daily Standard read short item what would have thought Remember no yet paid serious attention report two bicycle builders Ohio flown airplane 10 months before Kitty Hawk NC around Bridgeport flights Whitehead apparently well-known early 1901 Lots people seen airplanes also seen full flight may almost no references work standard avia tion history books theres growing pile testimony pointing strong possibility German immigrant first man fly airplane Today Gustave Whitehead making lot people nervous though hes dead 50 years what claimed have done 80 years ago turns out true very important fact aviation history will have changed lot people will have change thinking writers historians monument builders others repu tations could endangered claims Whitehead accepted makes people uncomfortable What being claimed Whitehead nothing less very first true flight airplane As early 1901 perhaps 1899 said have flown heavier-than-air device under control considerable distanceat least far first flights Wright brothers Kitty Hawk 1903 status Orville Wilbur Wright men reponsible first flight airplane seemed solid Edi sons invention electric light until Connecticut historian ish recall aeronautical world fact America belongs credit pro ducing first successful motordriven aeroplane such men Wright brothers M Herring Gustave Whitehead longs real credit having pro duced first successful heavierthan-air flying machines Scientific American January 25 1908 Photos Gustave Weisskopf Museum Leutershausen West Germany via William ODwyer name William ODwyer discovered what learned little-known student subject proceeded collect evidence pre-Wright flights Now no about challenge Wright brothers position fathers airplane work led airplanes know today Similarly no would question status Chris topher Columbus man voyages led settling Americas Europeans just strong possibility others got western side Atlantic Ocean long before Columbus growing evidence someone flew powered airplane several years before Kitty Hawk isnt question made terribly important contributions world history merely deserves credit having first Christopher Orville Wilbur make permanent what others quite possibly did before life pro ceeded develop what know today Still history growing collection facts rather set con clusions carved stone historians must willing consider new fact new theory its own merits no room bias fan wants team win isnt playing very well will probably never proven Gustave Whitehead type No 21 airplane Fairfield Ave nue flying field Bridgeport CT inventor standing front airplane holding engines used power wheels airplane its takeoff run 1 F enigmauc inventor 1902 1903 engines Note unusual bundle wire cooling fins apparent ease Whitehead lifting engine high general layout Whiteheads #21 airplane shows strong similarity earlier designs du Temple Mozhaisky othersbut Wright brothers Wttitehead flew before Wrights nt Its just too late definitive research question de mands nothing existence parties would consider proof Videotape movie film short supply turn century community leaders may have witnessed flying no longer among us About best anyone can hope collect old testimony accounts pub lished reputable journals day try assemble reasonable story what may have happened After isnt what has done flights Orville Wilbur Kitty Hawk December 17 1903 historic trips made benefit network TV coverage fact Wrights main witnesses own flights now-classic photo 1903 Flyer leav ing ground its maiden flight report edly wasnt seen public five years accumulation testimony photo raphs other bits evidence has consuming passion Bill ODwyer lives Fairfield CT just few miles Whitehead conducted exper iments Bill picked up Stella Ran dolph left off after writing two obscure books Lost Flights Gustave Whitehead 1937 Before Wrights Flew G P Putnams Sons 1966 added collection eye-witness testimony news paper magazine clippings other evidence work Whitehead 1978 ODwyer Randolph jointly compiled History Contract published Germany Fritz Majer & Son expanded initial work added considerable documentary support premise Whitehead made suc cessful flights Wrights still learning fly kites gliders through long grind trying convince world missed some thing important has puzzling presence Smithsonian Institution its National Air & Space Museum Widely considered leading authority matters aeronautical history popular museum Washington DC has shown suspicious lack enthusiasm entire Whitehead matter its people called Whithead hoax mid-1970s ODwyer enlisted support Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker force Smithsonian release copy long-denied contract between estate Orville Wright sheds con siderable light odd behavior national museum makes clear Smithsonian prohibited contract supporting publishing claim airplane capable true flight existed before Wrights flew late 1903 agreement violated treasured airplanes reverts Wright heirs could removed National Air & Space Museum sent elsewhere Such contract appears totally odds basic purpose museums 90 Model Aviation wniteneaa ana flis little daughter Rose under wing #21 airplane reportedly flew times 1901 twin counter-rotating propellers front Whitehead second left several associates pose casually beside type #21 may well have worlds first successful airplane engine front like used drive wheels tor takeoff Close-up ot engine engine mount propeller ot Whiteheads #21 airplane present accurate picture history possible theory least Smithsonian would have ignore abso lute proof someone flew before Wrights lose priceless centerpiece its Milestones Flight hall look conditions existed time contract may help explain peculiar action 1928 Wright 1903 Flyer sent Science Museum London England displayed first successful airplane world time Smithsonian refused recog nize Wrights first fly preferring grant title its own Prof Samuel Langley secretary Smithson ian ill-founded attempts fly 1903 ended Aerodrome flopped awk wardly Potomac River wasnt until 1948 Smithsonian ready join rest free world recognizing Wrights fathers flight order get airplane back England display Washington agree restrictive unusual conditions contract though rival claims feared primarily worn-out ones about Langley leading museum its respected historians unable consider evidence Whitehead flew before Wrights up Bill ODwyer carry load would have seek out evidence wit nesses reasons believe unknown inventor deserves place early history aviation crusade could easily have just fruitless efforts prove someone besides Wrights deserves honor having first Clement Ader Felix Du Temple France Sir Hiram Maxim Percey Pilcher Eng land Carl Jatho Germany Alexander Mozhaisky Russia others still have scattering supporters other instance has pretty well proven best men did still category hop airplane may have lifted itself briefly never achieved sustained controlled flight few feet down slight incline simply enough qualify having flown 1902 today case Gustave Whitehead claims true flightsmany over significant distances Louis Darvarich says 1934 signed notarized statement flew Whitehead Pittsburgh PA height 20-25 feet distance about half milein spring 1899 4/2 years before Kitty Hawk full 1/2 years after New York Tribune major newspaper ran article about Whiteheads aerial experiments fellow inventors must have read 1900 Whitehead moved Bridge port CT continued build seems fly airplanes ODwyer has possession signed notarized statements quantityand some tape videotape recordingsin neighbors co-workers passers-by describe airplane flights Whitehead say saw eyes Among 1901 flights attested persons 300 feet distance 15 feet altitude seen Thomas Schwei kert boy sworn 1936 John Fekete stated 1948 May June 1901 watched Whitehead fly 30 feet Continued page 159 March 1983 91 II Hg. surprisingly clean lines aI. orplane eviun Iruni mis angle three-view drawing Bjorn Karlstrom originally appeared American Aircraft Modeler magazine drawing developed photographic references such appear article /7 \\\\\ N7 1038 West Elmer Rd Vineland NJ 08360 Gustave Whitehead/Berliner Continued page 91 distance about 200 feet same vein June 1901 major articles about Whitehead New York Herald Scientaic American latter weekly magazine leading publication US covering sorts advanced experimentation As such surely read everyone seriously trying build air plane including Octave Chanute Wright brothers article may have moti vated Wrights visit Whitehead sev eral witnesses claim have seen August 14 1901 first several major flights apparently made Whitehead Bridgeport reporter Bridegport Herald watching said have flown approximately half mile high 40 feet above ground described great colorful detail Sundat Herald August 18 well next days Boston Transcript New York Herald 1934 Junius Harworth associate Ti iK N CA 6409 Airfoil THERMIC 72' Pod 72 Wingspan 410 Sc1 Area Postage & Handling add $295 CA ZAIC CO INC 883 Lexington Ave Brooklyn New Vark Heads up Power Panel POWER starter-pump-plug AMMETER indication plug condition ALL 12-Volt battery Battery Cord Mating Plugs 3 x 5 Easy Mounting Only Designed 2G 44f4 Trainermaster Good first low wing airplane. easy build n fly U Wingspan 53 U Engine 35-45 U Wing Area 575 sq U Weight 4V2-5 lbs ANDRE AIRCRAFT MODEL COMPANY P0 BOX 721 URBANA LNOS6 80 Available local hobby shop division Great Planes Model Manufacturing Company AeromasterSportmasterBig H-Ray TrainermasterA-RayX-Ray MinimasterK-RayQuikRay-500 iuL4v standard Power Panel shown also available two new versions smaller $ 23Q Mini Panel flexible Dual Range Panel gives option 1-1/ 2 2 volts glow plug March 1983 159 BIG BEAUTIFUL AIRPLANES LOADMASTER $99 STINSON VOYAGEROne Qua e Sca Wing Span 0 75 2 pcs Mammoth Kits designed Quadra other 2 cycle engines Plywood & Softwood consf ruct ion Capable carrying 10 lbs cargo Wing Span 93-1/4 -2 pcs -7 BONZO Almost 1/3 Scale Sport Pylon Pattern Flying 60 Quadra Power Wing Span 54 1 Pc Shipping Charges Included US & Canada GIANT-SCALE PLANS Includtng Assembly Instructions Available J-5 Airplanes Boats $1 795 SET J TERPRISES P0 BOx 82 Belmont Ontario NOL 180 Phone 1 5194440375 1 Smoke No dont smoke Square Loop Ho b Center Out Warranty Repair Service Kraft Futaba Electronic RIC Equipment 204 N StorieLiGreenwood MS 38930 Telephone 601453-1699 Whitehead completed signed notar ized statement effect 1 present assisted occasion 8/14/01 Mr Whitehead succeeded flying machine propelled motor height 200 feet off ground sea beach Lord ship Manor Connecticut distance flown approximately mile half lasted best knowledge four minutes works out little over 20 mph reasonable design power attributed airplane Harworth went describe engine con struction airplane said weighed about 800 pounds flights several others apparently made Whitehead airplane #21 Unlike designs of pre tenders Wrights throne display little no aeronautical logic #21 looks like flyable airplane fact models have flown successfully though numer ous rumors full-size reproductions have yet develop hardware Now just because airplane looks like should fly models have flown doesnt mean ever left ground design based solid reasoning sub sequently borne out successful similar airplanes suggests its creator used good engineering headed right direction Whitehead #21 ariplane did spring full grown its inventors imagination direct descendant earlier designs logical development years work others 1809/10 Sir George Cayley published first known description what has since become monoplance design 1842 William Henson also England patented Aerial Steam Carriage wire-braced monoplane fan-shaped tail rear two pusher propellers driven single engine 1848 associate John Stringfel low built flew 10-foot steam-powered model modified Henson design reported 120 feet now-common frontwinged monoplane already progressed theory reasonably stable model large size Efforts create man-carrying mono plane moved ahead steadily 1864 SILK DISCOUNTS ON 50 YD ROLLS 44VYD White $495/rD RedYell Royal Blue Fine Qualify Model Building Ally LengfhMox 5OYd SILK COVERS BEST LIGHT- STRONG- ECONOMICAL SHIPPING ADO 50 FOREIGN 150/ ORDER &Y RES Add 4% BROWNSELL FLAG B DECAL CO 121 LAUREL ROAD NEW CITY NY 914-634- 8500 10956 160 Model Aviation E SOPWITH CAMEL Flight restedContest P-u. First Place AMA Scale Rhinebeck 1982 Built & Flown George Rosa Scale 2 1 Engine 60 Send 75 latest price list & literature VK MODEL AIRCRAFT CO 4350 Arondale Williaesvilie NY 14221 Phone 716 632-4838 Count DEsterno Italy published design monoplane highly tapered wing front fan-shaped tail rear both ideas later adopted Whitehead though have propelled flap ping its wings 1874 Felix Du Temple officer French Navy built swept-forward mono plane reportedly lifted young sailor short flight down ramp 1884 Alexander Mozhaisky built large mono plane Russia may have made sim ilar non-sustaining flight steam power designs featured wing front tail back like several hundred thou sand airpanes built past 50 years unlike Wright airplanes Whitehead s#21 also layout can assume based work some prior designs rather creating scratch no doubt seemed quicker sensi ble way go certainly obvious retrospect earliest Whitehead experiments anything known today date back 1897 working ornithopter flapping wing airplane conjunction Boston Aeronautical Society reported New York Tribune October year article strongly sug gested Whitehead basing work long study bird flight common early aeronauts Soon efforts turned toward fixed-wing airplanes powered internal combustion engines own design several dif ferent types major drawback powered flight days lack powerful lightweight dependable engine Like Wrights Whitehead could find com mercial engine fit needs forced design build own flying #21 August 14 1901 may have covered /2 1 /2 miles steam power heat provided burning either gas acetylene according sworn testimony Cecil Steeves As youngster Steeves saw least flight Whitehead machine went estimated 700 feet cleared telephone wires least 20 feet high airplane displayed publicly Atlan tic City NJ September 1901 years WFfAM Show going largest yet Well ones 150 manufacturers other ex hibitors huon already signed up bring enerything thats new hobby -- kitn engines radios accessories enerything between famous Sway Shop will full operation thousands items including built-up planes ulmont new radios engines on some thing just about eceryone ADVANCED TICKEE SALES Sane time --- anoid long ticket lines act Ed Aleoin 1507 Central Park Ace Yonkers NY 157t5 gld-337-hk32 la ii N STATIC COMPErITION Make sure latest creation finished up yolisheO youll hace chance take home dozens trophies ottered cOents e0arLcarTaflS roar uc 005 scsi aol roars rosa en i ouaa-u 550150 nc roars 5SOrT 5505 cor across 00 arasra5T-c-5o00 Judging taken place Sursay otternoon Carrion acceyred until tO Sour Suaday Special admonniar area ciii ho yro sioro ne Seth dayn nlatic dlnyay aurleotasts uitfl boils-up models Whiteheads type #22 somewhat modified version #21 reported have made flights two seven miles over Long Island Sound January 17 1901 No first-hand account flights known exist though Whiteheads assistant Anton Pruckner stated writing heard about amazing flights several per- sons claimed have present long after American Inventor magazine published letter Gustave Whitehead described length type p22 including its dimensions con struction operation included two quite clear ground photographs type #2l airplanes same letter invited editor see airplane photgraph Oeoslrarior models will stue 030 am mosaicS SWAP SHOP Tsr WOOMs coop Shop ran come oar 05 mobs nPOo astrac hoes wotO troanaron iadiodsal sewn charoiro saads help elimIsate sen ntaaOaacaunS Sway Shah 011 procior pararOis Oaotioa Soawn recolor snese roams seOO nrr-adorenned stamped aroelope Joha lnaintea 4 Oncue ff0 Laaorsmoaa ST 10530 SPCCIAL NOTE Thin yeaarnerru II ox aentriusOas ape romnor hour-up modem aognlaaaO may place swap Shop surreal ieroaesarioo carse 50 ltaeO Siesoem T500000c 50 VOOre pleser 5 F 50004054 ras-asab upsaceasrcr auclo uaRoeooELcrs Inc lebruary 26/21 lOAM to6PM flight suggests high level selfconfidence Whiteheads part Plans additional flights type #22 spring 1902 seem have come pass airplane said have deteriorated parked outdoors weather Future work Whitehead headed off another direction despite success monoplanes Undue influence financial backer Stanley Beach son editor Scientific American appar ently major factor starting 1905 Articles appeared Aeronauti cal World magazine late 1902 903 described proposed type #23 having single horizontal surface front triplane wings back what sounds like heli MAJESTIC RMAN FIGHTER ErnseoSco RIGINALFACTORSL. ocular scale 110cr aullo arrohoac excel eat urooso nardlno cr50 slauro two-poeco worn Scale a- ara ISOOaI 0 Ft 74 5 burr OTIbS USE TCRAFT ga/a WIRE WHEELS f 650 PR Orher supero uaea-ucole p1050 sI see 9 PTt 5 Guadra Kb 52500 Pall nice aetWIel plans PP1 $2500 tOO Faoegn Mesnuitu Guedra $2400 SO FarerOn Musqaile 40-SO Enar-opele St 700 Plars sear Oiled iP 0 POST uio oar ge oroers aud 40101 aaraai desaedOera aaoo tar Orocnaaes TuaIoacaair plars ollrar05 AMA Clubs Giant Scalers Save 30%Order Direct Buckeye Balsa supplies AAA quality balsa certified aircraft plywood fine kits Aero Composites Kitty Hawk Models Mr Gs Dave Plait R/C Kits Mfg. VK Models Bob Dively Model Aircraft & hobby shops Send SI catalog Price applied first order Minimum Net Order $50 No shipping COD charges 216 533 3607 P0 Box 174 Canfield OH 44406 7 SIZES CRASS PULLEYSWORKING CRASS 3mm TO 5mm DiATIJRN5UCKLS March 1983161 WRAM SHOW SI - Dont miss greatest Radio Control Show East Westchester County Center White Plains NY Its 15th annual show its sure biggest best ever Save Over 50% Complete Modelers Assortment Fasteners Kits Come 18 Compartment Heavy Duty Industrial Organizer HSA-735 ALLOY STEEL S CKET HEAD CAP SCREWS Mail Order HARDWARE SYSTEMS 1428 Washington Ave So Eden Prairie Mi. 55344 Phone 12941675I * Include $250 shipping & handling * Add $200 COD * Minn residents add 5% sales tax * Phone orders shipped same day * Mail orders shipped wlin 24 hours CONTENTS LIST 2-56 x 3/16 SOCKET HEAD CAP SCREW 2-56 x 114 SOCKET HEAD CAP SCREW 2-56 x 1/2 SOCKET HEAD CAP SCREW 4-40 x 1/4 SOCKET HEAD CAP SCREW 4-40 x 1/2 SOCKET HEAD CAP SCREW 4-40 x 3/4 SOCKET HEAD CAP SCREW 4-40 x 1 SOCKET HEAD CAP SCREW 6-32 x 114 SOCKET HEAD CAP SCREW 6-32 x 1/2 SOCKET HEAD CAP SCREW 6-32 x 3/4 SOCKET HEAD CAP SCREW 6-32 x 1 SOCKET HEAD CAP SCREW 6-32 x 11/2 SOCKET HEAD CAP SCREW 6-32 x 2 SOCKET HEAD CAP SCREW FLAT WASHERS SAE ZINC PLATED 2 4 6 NYLON INSERT LOCK NUTS ZINC PLATED 2-56 4-40 6-32 PCS 25 25 25 20 20 20 20 15 15 15 15 15 15 75 90 75 80 90 TOTAL PCS 735 Only $2495 Free Catalog Upon Request No Purchase Necessary copter rotor vertical takeoff no evidence ever flew Next came small powered triplane hang-glider published dimensions include empty weight engine 80 pounds elementary footlaunched craft hardly appears major step forward man claimed have flown several miles stable mono-plane considerable size Whitehead worked bird-like hang-glider patented 1908 building engines order other experimenters said have exhibited # MODEL SUPPLIES Ply-Span tissue various colors Fiberglass tailbooms HL gliders towline gliders R/G gliders free flight Adhesives carbon fiber pre formed landing skids KW prop brakes pacifier bulbs Drew circletow units thin-wall surgical tubing Tatone engine mounts plastic-head pins other items catalog send self-addressed large envelope NFFS/MS-1 1602 Encanto Place Walnut Creek CA 94596 airplanes publicly Mor ris ParkNYin November 1908 1909/1910 built V-tailed biplane ground photos exist though nothing known about flying 1911/1912 built helicopter 60 two-bladed rotors predictably failed lift itself much known about activities after time until death 1927 age 53 Bill ODwyer however search goes evidence pre-Wright flights Gustave Whitehead intriguing among current clues photgraph showing Whiteheads display first exhibition Aero Club Amer ica December 1905 reported Scienlaic American January 27 1906 wall exhibit what may well photographic print 1901 flights airplane air image faint will take computer enhancement anything ever learned leads rumors funnyshaped little pieces great puzzle con tinue come surprising rate keeping Bill ODwyer fired up enthusiasm mystery Some leads important new information other pieces just seem hang mid-air Little little seems getting closer knowing what really hap pened up Connecticut shortly after start 20th century ODwyer becomes increasingly con vinced Whitehead flew conservative torians fall back charges hoax little known inventor have numbers prestige ODwyer gradually chopping away reluctance help such people own Bill Winter published first modern articles about Whitehead back 1968 nowdefunct American Aircrqft Modeler Its hard imagine reproduction Whiteheads #21 taking place honor away 1903 Wright Flyer National Air & Space Museum ODwyer doesnt think such terms hed like see some national credit given pioneer very least built airplanes far back 1901 may very possibly have first man history fly --Matcnea 1-erTormance ysTem TOP PERFORMANCE K&B ENGINES Airplane 4 Manse K&B FUtLS K&B GLOW PLUGS 7 Blends4 choices Matched Finish System BEST APPEARANCE K&B FIBERGLASS CLOTH K&B Micro-Balloons FILLER K&B SUPER POSY RESIN K&B SUPER POSY THINNER K&B SUPER POSY PRIMER K&B SUPER POSY PAINT K&B MIXING CUPS 162 Model Aviation SA-490 ALLOY ASSORTMENT SHOWN
Edition: Model Aviation - 1983/03
Page Numbers: 88, 89, 90, 91, 159, 160, 161, 162
Gustave Wh itehead WAS HE FIRST really first make controlled powered flight airplane may ever conclusive proof answer question growing evidence Gustave Whitehead may have beaten Wright brothers punch several yearsE Don Berliner IF ANYONE DOUBTS Gustave Whitehead has able fly limited distance least aeroplane such doubts can dispelled viewing photographs flight south win dow Lyon & Grummans hardware store Main Street two pictures window showing Whitehead aeroplane about 20 feet ground sailing along course has perfected inven tion says has frequently flown over half mile picked up copy October 1 1904 edition Bridgeport CT Daily Standard read short item what would have thought Remember no yet paid serious attention report two bicycle builders Ohio flown airplane 10 months before Kitty Hawk NC around Bridgeport flights Whitehead apparently well-known early 1901 Lots people seen airplanes also seen full flight may almost no references work standard avia tion history books theres growing pile testimony pointing strong possibility German immigrant first man fly airplane Today Gustave Whitehead making lot people nervous though hes dead 50 years what claimed have done 80 years ago turns out true very important fact aviation history will have changed lot people will have change thinking writers historians monument builders others repu tations could endangered claims Whitehead accepted makes people uncomfortable What being claimed Whitehead nothing less very first true flight airplane As early 1901 perhaps 1899 said have flown heavier-than-air device under control considerable distanceat least far first flights Wright brothers Kitty Hawk 1903 status Orville Wilbur Wright men reponsible first flight airplane seemed solid Edi sons invention electric light until Connecticut historian ish recall aeronautical world fact America belongs credit pro ducing first successful motordriven aeroplane such men Wright brothers M Herring Gustave Whitehead longs real credit having pro duced first successful heavierthan-air flying machines Scientific American January 25 1908 Photos Gustave Weisskopf Museum Leutershausen West Germany via William ODwyer name William ODwyer discovered what learned little-known student subject proceeded collect evidence pre-Wright flights Now no about challenge Wright brothers position fathers airplane work led airplanes know today Similarly no would question status Chris topher Columbus man voyages led settling Americas Europeans just strong possibility others got western side Atlantic Ocean long before Columbus growing evidence someone flew powered airplane several years before Kitty Hawk isnt question made terribly important contributions world history merely deserves credit having first Christopher Orville Wilbur make permanent what others quite possibly did before life pro ceeded develop what know today Still history growing collection facts rather set con clusions carved stone historians must willing consider new fact new theory its own merits no room bias fan wants team win isnt playing very well will probably never proven Gustave Whitehead type No 21 airplane Fairfield Ave nue flying field Bridgeport CT inventor standing front airplane holding engines used power wheels airplane its takeoff run 1 F enigmauc inventor 1902 1903 engines Note unusual bundle wire cooling fins apparent ease Whitehead lifting engine high general layout Whiteheads #21 airplane shows strong similarity earlier designs du Temple Mozhaisky othersbut Wright brothers Wttitehead flew before Wrights nt Its just too late definitive research question de mands nothing existence parties would consider proof Videotape movie film short supply turn century community leaders may have witnessed flying no longer among us About best anyone can hope collect old testimony accounts pub lished reputable journals day try assemble reasonable story what may have happened After isnt what has done flights Orville Wilbur Kitty Hawk December 17 1903 historic trips made benefit network TV coverage fact Wrights main witnesses own flights now-classic photo 1903 Flyer leav ing ground its maiden flight report edly wasnt seen public five years accumulation testimony photo raphs other bits evidence has consuming passion Bill ODwyer lives Fairfield CT just few miles Whitehead conducted exper iments Bill picked up Stella Ran dolph left off after writing two obscure books Lost Flights Gustave Whitehead 1937 Before Wrights Flew G P Putnams Sons 1966 added collection eye-witness testimony news paper magazine clippings other evidence work Whitehead 1978 ODwyer Randolph jointly compiled History Contract published Germany Fritz Majer & Son expanded initial work added considerable documentary support premise Whitehead made suc cessful flights Wrights still learning fly kites gliders through long grind trying convince world missed some thing important has puzzling presence Smithsonian Institution its National Air & Space Museum Widely considered leading authority matters aeronautical history popular museum Washington DC has shown suspicious lack enthusiasm entire Whitehead matter its people called Whithead hoax mid-1970s ODwyer enlisted support Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker force Smithsonian release copy long-denied contract between estate Orville Wright sheds con siderable light odd behavior national museum makes clear Smithsonian prohibited contract supporting publishing claim airplane capable true flight existed before Wrights flew late 1903 agreement violated treasured airplanes reverts Wright heirs could removed National Air & Space Museum sent elsewhere Such contract appears totally odds basic purpose museums 90 Model Aviation wniteneaa ana flis little daughter Rose under wing #21 airplane reportedly flew times 1901 twin counter-rotating propellers front Whitehead second left several associates pose casually beside type #21 may well have worlds first successful airplane engine front like used drive wheels tor takeoff Close-up ot engine engine mount propeller ot Whiteheads #21 airplane present accurate picture history possible theory least Smithsonian would have ignore abso lute proof someone flew before Wrights lose priceless centerpiece its Milestones Flight hall look conditions existed time contract may help explain peculiar action 1928 Wright 1903 Flyer sent Science Museum London England displayed first successful airplane world time Smithsonian refused recog nize Wrights first fly preferring grant title its own Prof Samuel Langley secretary Smithson ian ill-founded attempts fly 1903 ended Aerodrome flopped awk wardly Potomac River wasnt until 1948 Smithsonian ready join rest free world recognizing Wrights fathers flight order get airplane back England display Washington agree restrictive unusual conditions contract though rival claims feared primarily worn-out ones about Langley leading museum its respected historians unable consider evidence Whitehead flew before Wrights up Bill ODwyer carry load would have seek out evidence wit nesses reasons believe unknown inventor deserves place early history aviation crusade could easily have just fruitless efforts prove someone besides Wrights deserves honor having first Clement Ader Felix Du Temple France Sir Hiram Maxim Percey Pilcher Eng land Carl Jatho Germany Alexander Mozhaisky Russia others still have scattering supporters other instance has pretty well proven best men did still category hop airplane may have lifted itself briefly never achieved sustained controlled flight few feet down slight incline simply enough qualify having flown 1902 today case Gustave Whitehead claims true flightsmany over significant distances Louis Darvarich says 1934 signed notarized statement flew Whitehead Pittsburgh PA height 20-25 feet distance about half milein spring 1899 4/2 years before Kitty Hawk full 1/2 years after New York Tribune major newspaper ran article about Whiteheads aerial experiments fellow inventors must have read 1900 Whitehead moved Bridge port CT continued build seems fly airplanes ODwyer has possession signed notarized statements quantityand some tape videotape recordingsin neighbors co-workers passers-by describe airplane flights Whitehead say saw eyes Among 1901 flights attested persons 300 feet distance 15 feet altitude seen Thomas Schwei kert boy sworn 1936 John Fekete stated 1948 May June 1901 watched Whitehead fly 30 feet Continued page 159 March 1983 91 II Hg. surprisingly clean lines aI. orplane eviun Iruni mis angle three-view drawing Bjorn Karlstrom originally appeared American Aircraft Modeler magazine drawing developed photographic references such appear article /7 \\\\\ N7 1038 West Elmer Rd Vineland NJ 08360 Gustave Whitehead/Berliner Continued page 91 distance about 200 feet same vein June 1901 major articles about Whitehead New York Herald Scientaic American latter weekly magazine leading publication US covering sorts advanced experimentation As such surely read everyone seriously trying build air plane 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effect 1 present assisted occasion 8/14/01 Mr Whitehead succeeded flying machine propelled motor height 200 feet off ground sea beach Lord ship Manor Connecticut distance flown approximately mile half lasted best knowledge four minutes works out little over 20 mph reasonable design power attributed airplane Harworth went describe engine con struction airplane said weighed about 800 pounds flights several others apparently made Whitehead airplane #21 Unlike designs of pre tenders Wrights throne display little no aeronautical logic #21 looks like flyable airplane fact models have flown successfully though numer ous rumors full-size reproductions have yet develop hardware Now just because airplane looks like should fly models have flown doesnt mean ever left ground design based solid reasoning sub sequently borne out successful similar airplanes suggests its creator used good engineering headed right direction Whitehead #21 ariplane did spring full grown its inventors imagination direct descendant earlier designs logical development years work others 1809/10 Sir George Cayley published first known description what has since become monoplance design 1842 William Henson also England patented Aerial Steam Carriage wire-braced monoplane fan-shaped tail rear two pusher propellers driven single engine 1848 associate John Stringfel low built flew 10-foot steam-powered model modified Henson design reported 120 feet now-common frontwinged monoplane already progressed theory reasonably stable model large size Efforts create man-carrying mono plane moved ahead steadily 1864 SILK DISCOUNTS ON 50 YD ROLLS 44VYD White $495/rD RedYell Royal Blue Fine Qualify Model Building Ally LengfhMox 5OYd SILK COVERS BEST LIGHT- STRONG- ECONOMICAL SHIPPING ADO 50 FOREIGN 150/ ORDER &Y RES Add 4% BROWNSELL FLAG B DECAL CO 121 LAUREL ROAD NEW CITY NY 914-634- 8500 10956 160 Model Aviation E SOPWITH CAMEL Flight restedContest P-u. First Place AMA Scale Rhinebeck 1982 Built & Flown George Rosa Scale 2 1 Engine 60 Send 75 latest price list & literature VK MODEL AIRCRAFT CO 4350 Arondale Williaesvilie NY 14221 Phone 716 632-4838 Count DEsterno Italy published design monoplane highly tapered wing front fan-shaped tail rear both ideas later adopted Whitehead though have propelled flap ping its wings 1874 Felix Du Temple officer French Navy built swept-forward mono plane reportedly lifted young sailor short flight down ramp 1884 Alexander Mozhaisky built large mono plane Russia may have made sim ilar non-sustaining flight steam power designs featured wing front tail back like several hundred thou sand airpanes built past 50 years unlike Wright airplanes Whitehead s#21 also layout can assume based work some prior designs rather creating scratch no doubt seemed quicker sensi ble way go certainly obvious retrospect earliest Whitehead experiments anything known today date back 1897 working ornithopter flapping wing airplane conjunction Boston Aeronautical Society reported New York Tribune October year article strongly sug gested Whitehead basing work long study bird flight common early aeronauts Soon efforts turned toward fixed-wing airplanes powered internal combustion engines own design several dif ferent types major drawback powered flight days lack powerful lightweight dependable engine Like Wrights Whitehead could find com mercial engine fit needs forced design build own flying #21 August 14 1901 may have covered /2 1 /2 miles steam power heat provided burning either gas acetylene according sworn testimony Cecil Steeves As youngster Steeves saw least flight Whitehead machine went estimated 700 feet cleared telephone wires least 20 feet high airplane displayed publicly Atlan tic City NJ September 1901 years WFfAM Show going largest yet Well ones 150 manufacturers other ex hibitors huon already signed up bring enerything thats new hobby -- kitn engines radios accessories enerything between famous Sway Shop will full operation thousands items including built-up planes ulmont new radios engines on some thing just about eceryone ADVANCED TICKEE SALES Sane time --- anoid long ticket lines act Ed Aleoin 1507 Central Park Ace Yonkers NY 157t5 gld-337-hk32 la ii N STATIC COMPErITION Make sure latest creation finished up yolisheO youll hace chance take home dozens trophies ottered cOents e0arLcarTaflS roar uc 005 scsi aol roars rosa en i ouaa-u 550150 nc roars 5SOrT 5505 cor across 00 arasra5T-c-5o00 Judging taken place Sursay otternoon Carrion acceyred until tO Sour Suaday Special admonniar area ciii ho yro sioro ne Seth dayn nlatic dlnyay aurleotasts uitfl boils-up models Whiteheads type #22 somewhat modified version #21 reported have made flights two seven miles over Long Island Sound January 17 1901 No first-hand account flights known exist though Whiteheads assistant Anton Pruckner stated writing heard about amazing flights several per- sons claimed have present long after American Inventor magazine published letter Gustave Whitehead described length type p22 including its dimensions con struction operation included two quite clear ground photographs type #2l airplanes same letter invited editor see airplane photgraph Oeoslrarior models will stue 030 am mosaicS SWAP SHOP Tsr WOOMs coop Shop ran come oar 05 mobs nPOo astrac hoes wotO troanaron iadiodsal sewn charoiro saads help elimIsate sen ntaaOaacaunS Sway Shah 011 procior pararOis Oaotioa Soawn recolor snese roams seOO nrr-adorenned stamped aroelope Joha lnaintea 4 Oncue ff0 Laaorsmoaa ST 10530 SPCCIAL NOTE Thin yeaarnerru II ox aentriusOas ape romnor hour-up modem aognlaaaO may place swap Shop surreal ieroaesarioo carse 50 ltaeO Siesoem T500000c 50 VOOre pleser 5 F 50004054 ras-asab upsaceasrcr auclo uaRoeooELcrs Inc lebruary 26/21 lOAM to6PM flight suggests high level selfconfidence Whiteheads part Plans additional flights type #22 spring 1902 seem have come pass airplane said have deteriorated parked outdoors weather Future work Whitehead headed off another direction despite success monoplanes Undue influence financial backer Stanley Beach son editor Scientific American appar ently major factor starting 1905 Articles appeared Aeronauti cal World magazine late 1902 903 described proposed type #23 having single horizontal surface front triplane wings back what sounds like heli MAJESTIC RMAN FIGHTER ErnseoSco RIGINALFACTORSL. ocular scale 110cr aullo arrohoac excel eat urooso nardlno cr50 slauro two-poeco worn Scale a- ara ISOOaI 0 Ft 74 5 burr OTIbS USE TCRAFT ga/a WIRE WHEELS f 650 PR Orher supero uaea-ucole p1050 sI see 9 PTt 5 Guadra Kb 52500 Pall nice aetWIel plans PP1 $2500 tOO Faoegn Mesnuitu Guedra $2400 SO FarerOn Musqaile 40-SO Enar-opele St 700 Plars sear Oiled iP 0 POST uio oar ge oroers aud 40101 aaraai desaedOera aaoo tar Orocnaaes TuaIoacaair plars ollrar05 AMA Clubs Giant Scalers Save 30%Order Direct Buckeye Balsa supplies AAA quality balsa certified aircraft 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Edition: Model Aviation - 1983/03
Page Numbers: 88, 89, 90, 91, 159, 160, 161, 162
Gustave Wh itehead WAS HE FIRST really first make controlled powered flight airplane may ever conclusive proof answer question growing evidence Gustave Whitehead may have beaten Wright brothers punch several yearsE Don Berliner IF ANYONE DOUBTS Gustave Whitehead has able fly limited distance least aeroplane such doubts can dispelled viewing photographs flight south win dow Lyon & Grummans hardware store Main Street two pictures window showing Whitehead aeroplane about 20 feet ground sailing along course has perfected inven tion says has frequently flown over half mile picked up copy October 1 1904 edition Bridgeport CT Daily Standard read short item what would have thought Remember no yet paid serious attention report two bicycle builders Ohio flown airplane 10 months before Kitty Hawk NC around Bridgeport flights Whitehead apparently well-known early 1901 Lots people seen airplanes also seen full flight may almost no references work standard avia tion history books theres growing pile testimony pointing strong possibility German immigrant first man fly airplane Today Gustave Whitehead making lot people nervous though hes dead 50 years what claimed have done 80 years ago turns out true very important fact aviation history will have changed lot people will have change thinking writers historians monument builders others repu tations could endangered claims Whitehead accepted makes people uncomfortable What being claimed Whitehead nothing less very first true flight airplane As early 1901 perhaps 1899 said have flown heavier-than-air device under control considerable distanceat least far first flights Wright brothers Kitty Hawk 1903 status Orville Wilbur Wright men reponsible first flight airplane seemed solid Edi sons invention electric light until Connecticut historian ish recall aeronautical world fact America belongs credit pro ducing first successful motordriven aeroplane such men Wright brothers M Herring Gustave Whitehead longs real credit having pro duced first successful heavierthan-air flying machines Scientific American January 25 1908 Photos Gustave Weisskopf Museum Leutershausen West Germany via William ODwyer name William ODwyer discovered what learned little-known student subject proceeded collect evidence pre-Wright flights Now no about challenge Wright brothers position fathers airplane work led airplanes know today Similarly no would question status Chris topher Columbus man voyages led settling Americas Europeans just strong possibility others got western side Atlantic Ocean long before Columbus growing evidence someone flew powered airplane several years before Kitty Hawk isnt question made terribly important contributions world history merely deserves credit having first Christopher Orville Wilbur make permanent what others quite possibly did before life pro ceeded develop what know today Still history growing collection facts rather set con clusions carved stone historians must willing consider new fact new theory its own merits no room bias fan wants team win isnt playing very well will probably never proven Gustave Whitehead type No 21 airplane Fairfield Ave nue flying field Bridgeport CT inventor standing front airplane holding engines used power wheels airplane its takeoff run 1 F enigmauc inventor 1902 1903 engines Note unusual bundle wire cooling fins apparent ease Whitehead lifting engine high general layout Whiteheads #21 airplane shows strong similarity earlier designs du Temple Mozhaisky othersbut Wright brothers Wttitehead flew before Wrights nt Its just too late definitive research question de mands nothing existence parties would consider proof Videotape movie film short supply turn century community leaders may have witnessed flying no longer among us About best anyone can hope collect old testimony accounts pub lished reputable journals day try assemble reasonable story what may have happened After isnt what has done flights Orville Wilbur Kitty Hawk December 17 1903 historic trips made benefit network TV coverage fact Wrights main witnesses own flights now-classic photo 1903 Flyer leav ing ground its maiden flight report edly wasnt seen public five years accumulation testimony photo raphs other bits evidence has consuming passion Bill ODwyer lives Fairfield CT just few miles Whitehead conducted exper iments Bill picked up Stella Ran dolph left off after writing two obscure books Lost Flights Gustave Whitehead 1937 Before Wrights Flew G P Putnams Sons 1966 added collection eye-witness testimony news paper magazine clippings other evidence work Whitehead 1978 ODwyer Randolph jointly compiled History Contract published Germany Fritz Majer & Son expanded initial work added considerable documentary support premise Whitehead made suc cessful flights Wrights still learning fly kites gliders through long grind trying convince world missed some thing important has puzzling presence Smithsonian Institution its National Air & Space Museum Widely considered leading authority matters aeronautical history popular museum Washington DC has shown suspicious lack enthusiasm entire Whitehead matter its people called Whithead hoax mid-1970s ODwyer enlisted support Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker force Smithsonian release copy long-denied contract between estate Orville Wright sheds con siderable light odd behavior national museum makes clear Smithsonian prohibited contract supporting publishing claim airplane capable true flight existed before Wrights flew late 1903 agreement violated treasured airplanes reverts Wright heirs could removed National Air & Space Museum sent elsewhere Such contract appears totally odds basic purpose museums 90 Model Aviation wniteneaa ana flis little daughter Rose under wing #21 airplane reportedly flew times 1901 twin counter-rotating propellers front Whitehead second left several associates pose casually beside type #21 may well have worlds first successful airplane engine front like used drive wheels tor takeoff Close-up ot engine engine mount propeller ot Whiteheads #21 airplane present accurate picture history possible theory least Smithsonian would have ignore abso lute proof someone flew before Wrights lose priceless centerpiece its Milestones Flight hall look conditions existed time contract may help explain peculiar action 1928 Wright 1903 Flyer sent Science Museum London England displayed first successful airplane world time Smithsonian refused recog nize Wrights first fly preferring grant title its own Prof Samuel Langley secretary Smithson ian ill-founded attempts fly 1903 ended Aerodrome flopped awk wardly Potomac River wasnt until 1948 Smithsonian ready join rest free world recognizing Wrights fathers flight order get airplane back England display Washington agree restrictive unusual conditions contract though rival claims feared primarily worn-out ones about Langley leading museum its respected historians unable consider evidence Whitehead flew before Wrights up Bill ODwyer carry load would have seek out evidence wit nesses reasons believe unknown inventor deserves place early history aviation crusade could easily have just fruitless efforts prove someone besides Wrights deserves honor having first Clement Ader Felix Du Temple France Sir Hiram Maxim Percey Pilcher Eng land Carl Jatho Germany Alexander Mozhaisky Russia others still have scattering supporters other instance has pretty well proven best men did still category hop airplane may have lifted itself briefly never achieved sustained controlled flight few feet down slight incline simply enough qualify having flown 1902 today case Gustave Whitehead claims true flightsmany over significant distances Louis Darvarich says 1934 signed notarized statement flew Whitehead Pittsburgh PA height 20-25 feet distance about half milein spring 1899 4/2 years before Kitty Hawk full 1/2 years after New York Tribune major newspaper ran article about Whiteheads aerial experiments fellow inventors must have read 1900 Whitehead moved Bridge port CT continued build seems fly airplanes ODwyer has possession signed notarized statements quantityand some tape videotape recordingsin neighbors co-workers passers-by describe airplane flights Whitehead say saw eyes Among 1901 flights attested persons 300 feet distance 15 feet altitude seen Thomas Schwei kert boy sworn 1936 John Fekete stated 1948 May June 1901 watched Whitehead fly 30 feet Continued page 159 March 1983 91 II Hg. surprisingly clean lines aI. orplane eviun Iruni mis angle three-view drawing Bjorn Karlstrom originally appeared American Aircraft Modeler magazine drawing developed photographic references such appear article /7 \\\\\ N7 1038 West Elmer Rd Vineland NJ 08360 Gustave Whitehead/Berliner Continued page 91 distance about 200 feet same vein June 1901 major articles about Whitehead New York Herald Scientaic American latter weekly magazine leading publication US covering sorts advanced experimentation As such surely read everyone seriously trying build air plane 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effect 1 present assisted occasion 8/14/01 Mr Whitehead succeeded flying machine propelled motor height 200 feet off ground sea beach Lord ship Manor Connecticut distance flown approximately mile half lasted best knowledge four minutes works out little over 20 mph reasonable design power attributed airplane Harworth went describe engine con struction airplane said weighed about 800 pounds flights several others apparently made Whitehead airplane #21 Unlike designs of pre tenders Wrights throne display little no aeronautical logic #21 looks like flyable airplane fact models have flown successfully though numer ous rumors full-size reproductions have yet develop hardware Now just because airplane looks like should fly models have flown doesnt mean ever left ground design based solid reasoning sub sequently borne out successful similar airplanes suggests its creator used good engineering headed right direction Whitehead #21 ariplane did spring full grown its inventors imagination direct descendant earlier designs logical development years work others 1809/10 Sir George Cayley published first known description what has since become monoplance design 1842 William Henson also England patented Aerial Steam Carriage wire-braced monoplane fan-shaped tail rear two pusher propellers driven single engine 1848 associate John Stringfel low built flew 10-foot steam-powered model modified Henson design reported 120 feet now-common frontwinged monoplane already progressed theory reasonably stable model large size Efforts create man-carrying mono plane moved ahead steadily 1864 SILK DISCOUNTS ON 50 YD ROLLS 44VYD White $495/rD RedYell Royal Blue Fine Qualify Model Building Ally LengfhMox 5OYd SILK COVERS BEST LIGHT- STRONG- ECONOMICAL SHIPPING ADO 50 FOREIGN 150/ ORDER &Y RES Add 4% BROWNSELL FLAG B DECAL CO 121 LAUREL ROAD NEW CITY NY 914-634- 8500 10956 160 Model Aviation E SOPWITH CAMEL Flight restedContest P-u. 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airplane conjunction Boston Aeronautical Society reported New York Tribune October year article strongly sug gested Whitehead basing work long study bird flight common early aeronauts Soon efforts turned toward fixed-wing airplanes powered internal combustion engines own design several dif ferent types major drawback powered flight days lack powerful lightweight dependable engine Like Wrights Whitehead could find com mercial engine fit needs forced design build own flying #21 August 14 1901 may have covered /2 1 /2 miles steam power heat provided burning either gas acetylene according sworn testimony Cecil Steeves As youngster Steeves saw least flight Whitehead machine went estimated 700 feet cleared telephone wires least 20 feet high airplane displayed publicly Atlan tic City NJ September 1901 years WFfAM Show going largest yet Well ones 150 manufacturers other ex hibitors huon already signed up bring enerything thats new hobby -- kitn engines radios accessories enerything between famous Sway Shop will full operation thousands items including built-up planes ulmont new radios engines on some thing just about eceryone ADVANCED TICKEE SALES Sane time --- anoid long ticket lines act Ed Aleoin 1507 Central Park Ace Yonkers NY 157t5 gld-337-hk32 la ii N STATIC COMPErITION Make sure latest creation finished up yolisheO youll hace chance take home dozens trophies ottered cOents e0arLcarTaflS roar uc 005 scsi aol roars rosa en i ouaa-u 550150 nc roars 5SOrT 5505 cor across 00 arasra5T-c-5o00 Judging taken place Sursay otternoon Carrion acceyred until tO Sour Suaday Special admonniar area ciii ho yro sioro ne Seth dayn nlatic dlnyay aurleotasts uitfl boils-up models Whiteheads type #22 somewhat modified version #21 reported have made flights two seven miles over Long Island Sound January 17 1901 No first-hand account flights known exist though Whiteheads assistant Anton Pruckner stated writing heard about amazing flights several per- sons claimed have present long after American Inventor magazine published letter Gustave Whitehead described length type p22 including its dimensions con struction operation included two quite clear ground photographs type #2l airplanes same letter invited editor see airplane photgraph Oeoslrarior models will stue 030 am mosaicS SWAP SHOP Tsr WOOMs coop Shop ran come oar 05 mobs nPOo astrac hoes wotO troanaron iadiodsal sewn charoiro saads help elimIsate sen ntaaOaacaunS Sway Shah 011 procior pararOis Oaotioa Soawn recolor snese roams seOO nrr-adorenned stamped aroelope Joha lnaintea 4 Oncue ff0 Laaorsmoaa ST 10530 SPCCIAL NOTE Thin yeaarnerru II ox aentriusOas ape romnor hour-up modem aognlaaaO may place swap Shop surreal ieroaesarioo carse 50 ltaeO Siesoem T500000c 50 VOOre pleser 5 F 50004054 ras-asab upsaceasrcr auclo uaRoeooELcrs Inc lebruary 26/21 lOAM to6PM flight suggests high level selfconfidence Whiteheads part Plans additional flights type #22 spring 1902 seem have come pass airplane said have deteriorated parked outdoors weather Future work Whitehead headed off another direction despite success monoplanes Undue influence financial backer Stanley Beach son editor Scientific American appar ently major factor starting 1905 Articles appeared Aeronauti cal World magazine late 1902 903 described proposed type #23 having single horizontal surface front triplane wings back what sounds like heli MAJESTIC RMAN FIGHTER ErnseoSco RIGINALFACTORSL. ocular scale 110cr aullo arrohoac excel eat urooso nardlno cr50 slauro two-poeco worn Scale a- ara ISOOaI 0 Ft 74 5 burr OTIbS USE TCRAFT ga/a WIRE WHEELS f 650 PR Orher supero uaea-ucole p1050 sI see 9 PTt 5 Guadra Kb 52500 Pall nice aetWIel plans PP1 $2500 tOO Faoegn Mesnuitu Guedra $2400 SO FarerOn Musqaile 40-SO Enar-opele St 700 Plars sear Oiled iP 0 POST uio oar ge oroers aud 40101 aaraai desaedOera aaoo tar Orocnaaes TuaIoacaair plars ollrar05 AMA Clubs Giant Scalers Save 30%Order Direct Buckeye Balsa supplies AAA quality balsa certified aircraft 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Gustave Wh itehead WAS HE FIRST really first make controlled powered flight airplane may ever conclusive proof answer question growing evidence Gustave Whitehead may have beaten Wright brothers punch several yearsE Don Berliner IF ANYONE DOUBTS Gustave Whitehead has able fly limited distance least aeroplane such doubts can dispelled viewing photographs flight south win dow Lyon & Grummans hardware store Main Street two pictures window showing Whitehead aeroplane about 20 feet ground sailing along course has perfected inven tion says has frequently flown over half mile picked up copy October 1 1904 edition Bridgeport CT Daily Standard read short item what would have thought Remember no yet paid serious attention report two bicycle builders Ohio flown airplane 10 months before Kitty Hawk NC around Bridgeport flights Whitehead apparently well-known early 1901 Lots people seen airplanes also seen full flight may almost no references work standard avia tion history books theres growing pile testimony pointing strong possibility German immigrant first man fly airplane Today Gustave Whitehead making lot people nervous though hes dead 50 years what claimed have done 80 years ago turns out true very important fact aviation history will have changed lot people will have change thinking writers historians monument builders others repu tations could endangered claims Whitehead accepted makes people uncomfortable What being claimed Whitehead nothing less very first true flight airplane As early 1901 perhaps 1899 said have flown heavier-than-air device under control considerable distanceat least far first flights Wright brothers Kitty Hawk 1903 status Orville Wilbur Wright men reponsible first flight airplane seemed solid Edi sons invention electric light until Connecticut historian ish recall aeronautical world fact America belongs credit pro ducing first successful motordriven aeroplane such men Wright brothers M Herring Gustave Whitehead longs real credit having pro duced first successful heavierthan-air flying machines Scientific American January 25 1908 Photos Gustave Weisskopf Museum Leutershausen West Germany via William ODwyer name William ODwyer discovered what learned little-known student subject proceeded collect evidence pre-Wright flights Now no about challenge Wright brothers position fathers airplane work led airplanes know today Similarly no would question status Chris topher Columbus man voyages led settling Americas Europeans just strong possibility others got western side Atlantic Ocean long before Columbus growing evidence someone flew powered airplane several years before Kitty Hawk isnt question made terribly important contributions world history merely deserves credit having first Christopher Orville Wilbur make permanent what others quite possibly did before life pro ceeded develop what know today Still history growing collection facts rather set con clusions carved stone historians must willing consider new fact new theory its own merits no room bias fan wants team win isnt playing very well will probably never proven Gustave Whitehead type No 21 airplane Fairfield Ave nue flying field Bridgeport CT inventor standing front airplane holding engines used power wheels airplane its takeoff run 1 F enigmauc inventor 1902 1903 engines Note unusual bundle wire cooling fins apparent ease Whitehead lifting engine high general layout Whiteheads #21 airplane shows strong similarity earlier designs du Temple Mozhaisky othersbut Wright brothers Wttitehead flew before Wrights nt Its just too late definitive research question de mands nothing existence parties would consider proof Videotape movie film short supply turn century community leaders may have witnessed flying no longer among us About best anyone can hope collect old testimony accounts pub lished reputable journals day try assemble reasonable story what may have happened After isnt what has done flights Orville Wilbur Kitty Hawk December 17 1903 historic trips made benefit network TV coverage fact Wrights main witnesses own flights now-classic photo 1903 Flyer leav ing ground its maiden flight report edly wasnt seen public five years accumulation testimony photo raphs other bits evidence has consuming passion Bill ODwyer lives Fairfield CT just few miles Whitehead conducted exper iments Bill picked up Stella Ran dolph left off after writing two obscure books Lost Flights Gustave Whitehead 1937 Before Wrights Flew G P Putnams Sons 1966 added collection eye-witness testimony news paper magazine clippings other evidence work Whitehead 1978 ODwyer Randolph jointly compiled History Contract published Germany Fritz Majer & Son expanded initial work added considerable documentary support premise Whitehead made suc cessful flights Wrights still learning fly kites gliders through long grind trying convince world missed some thing important has puzzling presence Smithsonian Institution its National Air & Space Museum Widely considered leading authority matters aeronautical history popular museum Washington DC has shown suspicious lack enthusiasm entire Whitehead matter its people called Whithead hoax mid-1970s ODwyer enlisted support Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker force Smithsonian release copy long-denied contract between estate Orville Wright sheds con siderable light odd behavior national museum makes clear Smithsonian prohibited contract supporting publishing claim airplane capable true flight existed before Wrights flew late 1903 agreement violated treasured airplanes reverts Wright heirs could removed National Air & Space Museum sent elsewhere Such contract appears totally odds basic purpose museums 90 Model Aviation wniteneaa ana flis little daughter Rose under wing #21 airplane reportedly flew times 1901 twin counter-rotating propellers front Whitehead second left several associates pose casually beside type #21 may well have worlds first successful airplane engine front like used drive wheels tor takeoff Close-up ot engine engine mount propeller ot Whiteheads #21 airplane present accurate picture history possible theory least Smithsonian would have ignore abso lute proof someone flew before Wrights lose priceless centerpiece its Milestones Flight hall look conditions existed time contract may help explain peculiar action 1928 Wright 1903 Flyer sent Science Museum London England displayed first successful airplane world time Smithsonian refused recog nize Wrights first fly preferring grant title its own Prof Samuel Langley secretary Smithson ian ill-founded attempts fly 1903 ended Aerodrome flopped awk wardly Potomac River wasnt until 1948 Smithsonian ready join rest free world recognizing Wrights fathers flight order get airplane back England display Washington agree restrictive unusual conditions contract though rival claims feared primarily worn-out ones about Langley leading museum its respected historians unable consider evidence Whitehead flew before Wrights up Bill ODwyer carry load would have seek out evidence wit nesses reasons believe unknown inventor deserves place early history aviation crusade could easily have just fruitless efforts prove someone besides Wrights deserves honor having first Clement Ader Felix Du Temple France Sir Hiram Maxim Percey Pilcher Eng land Carl Jatho Germany Alexander Mozhaisky Russia others still have scattering supporters other instance has pretty well proven best men did still category hop airplane may have lifted itself briefly never achieved sustained controlled flight few feet down slight incline simply enough qualify having flown 1902 today case Gustave Whitehead claims true flightsmany over significant distances Louis Darvarich says 1934 signed notarized statement flew Whitehead Pittsburgh PA height 20-25 feet distance about half milein spring 1899 4/2 years before Kitty Hawk full 1/2 years after New York Tribune major newspaper ran article about Whiteheads aerial experiments fellow inventors must have read 1900 Whitehead moved Bridge port CT continued build seems fly airplanes ODwyer has possession signed notarized statements quantityand some tape videotape recordingsin neighbors co-workers passers-by describe airplane flights Whitehead say saw eyes Among 1901 flights attested persons 300 feet distance 15 feet altitude seen Thomas Schwei kert boy sworn 1936 John Fekete stated 1948 May June 1901 watched Whitehead fly 30 feet Continued page 159 March 1983 91 II Hg. surprisingly clean lines aI. orplane eviun Iruni mis angle three-view drawing Bjorn Karlstrom originally appeared American Aircraft Modeler magazine drawing developed photographic references such appear article /7 \\\\\ N7 1038 West Elmer Rd Vineland NJ 08360 Gustave Whitehead/Berliner Continued page 91 distance about 200 feet same vein June 1901 major articles about Whitehead New York Herald Scientaic American latter weekly magazine leading publication US covering sorts advanced experimentation As such surely read everyone seriously trying build air plane including Octave Chanute Wright brothers article may have moti vated Wrights visit Whitehead sev eral witnesses claim have seen August 14 1901 first several major flights apparently made Whitehead Bridgeport reporter Bridegport Herald watching said have flown approximately half mile high 40 feet above ground described great colorful detail Sundat Herald August 18 well next days Boston Transcript New York Herald 1934 Junius Harworth associate Ti iK N CA 6409 Airfoil THERMIC 72' Pod 72 Wingspan 410 Sc1 Area Postage & Handling add $295 CA ZAIC CO INC 883 Lexington Ave Brooklyn New Vark Heads up Power Panel POWER starter-pump-plug AMMETER indication plug condition ALL 12-Volt battery Battery Cord Mating Plugs 3 x 5 Easy Mounting Only Designed 2G 44f4 Trainermaster Good first low wing airplane. easy build n fly U Wingspan 53 U Engine 35-45 U Wing Area 575 sq U Weight 4V2-5 lbs ANDRE AIRCRAFT MODEL COMPANY P0 BOX 721 URBANA LNOS6 80 Available local hobby shop division Great Planes Model 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effect 1 present assisted occasion 8/14/01 Mr Whitehead succeeded flying machine propelled motor height 200 feet off ground sea beach Lord ship Manor Connecticut distance flown approximately mile half lasted best knowledge four minutes works out little over 20 mph reasonable design power attributed airplane Harworth went describe engine con struction airplane said weighed about 800 pounds flights several others apparently made Whitehead airplane #21 Unlike designs of pre tenders Wrights throne display little no aeronautical logic #21 looks like flyable airplane fact models have flown successfully though numer ous rumors full-size reproductions have yet develop hardware Now just because airplane looks like should fly models have flown doesnt mean ever left ground design based solid reasoning sub sequently borne out successful similar airplanes suggests its creator used good engineering headed right direction Whitehead #21 ariplane did spring full grown its inventors imagination direct descendant earlier designs logical development years work others 1809/10 Sir George Cayley published first known description what has since become monoplance design 1842 William Henson also England patented Aerial Steam Carriage wire-braced monoplane fan-shaped tail rear two pusher propellers driven single engine 1848 associate John Stringfel low built flew 10-foot steam-powered model modified Henson design reported 120 feet now-common frontwinged monoplane already progressed theory reasonably stable model large size Efforts create man-carrying mono plane moved ahead steadily 1864 SILK DISCOUNTS ON 50 YD ROLLS 44VYD White $495/rD RedYell Royal Blue Fine Qualify Model Building Ally LengfhMox 5OYd SILK COVERS BEST LIGHT- STRONG- ECONOMICAL SHIPPING ADO 50 FOREIGN 150/ ORDER &Y RES Add 4% BROWNSELL FLAG B DECAL CO 121 LAUREL ROAD NEW CITY NY 914-634- 8500 10956 160 Model Aviation E SOPWITH CAMEL Flight restedContest P-u. First Place AMA Scale Rhinebeck 1982 Built & Flown George Rosa Scale 2 1 Engine 60 Send 75 latest price list & literature VK MODEL AIRCRAFT CO 4350 Arondale Williaesvilie NY 14221 Phone 716 632-4838 Count DEsterno Italy published design monoplane highly tapered wing front fan-shaped tail rear both ideas later adopted Whitehead though have propelled flap ping its wings 1874 Felix Du Temple officer French Navy built swept-forward mono plane reportedly lifted young sailor short flight down ramp 1884 Alexander Mozhaisky built large mono plane Russia may have made sim ilar non-sustaining flight steam power designs featured wing front tail back like several hundred thou sand airpanes built past 50 years unlike Wright airplanes Whitehead s#21 also layout can assume based work some prior designs rather creating scratch no doubt seemed quicker sensi ble way go certainly obvious retrospect earliest Whitehead experiments anything known today date back 1897 working ornithopter flapping wing airplane conjunction Boston Aeronautical Society reported New York Tribune October year article strongly sug gested Whitehead basing work long study bird flight common early aeronauts Soon efforts turned toward fixed-wing airplanes powered internal combustion engines own design several dif ferent types major drawback powered flight days lack powerful lightweight dependable engine Like Wrights Whitehead could find com mercial engine fit needs forced design build own flying #21 August 14 1901 may have covered /2 1 /2 miles steam power heat provided burning either gas acetylene according sworn testimony Cecil Steeves As youngster Steeves saw least flight Whitehead machine went estimated 700 feet cleared telephone wires least 20 feet high airplane displayed publicly Atlan tic City NJ September 1901 years WFfAM Show going largest yet Well ones 150 manufacturers other ex hibitors huon already signed up bring enerything thats new hobby -- kitn engines radios accessories enerything between famous Sway Shop will full operation thousands items including built-up planes ulmont new radios engines on some thing just about eceryone ADVANCED TICKEE SALES Sane time --- anoid long ticket lines act Ed Aleoin 1507 Central Park Ace Yonkers NY 157t5 gld-337-hk32 la ii N STATIC COMPErITION Make sure latest creation finished up yolisheO youll hace chance take home dozens trophies ottered cOents e0arLcarTaflS roar uc 005 scsi aol roars rosa en i ouaa-u 550150 nc roars 5SOrT 5505 cor across 00 arasra5T-c-5o00 Judging taken place Sursay otternoon Carrion acceyred until tO Sour Suaday Special admonniar area ciii ho yro sioro ne Seth dayn nlatic dlnyay aurleotasts uitfl boils-up models Whiteheads type #22 somewhat modified version #21 reported have made flights two seven miles over Long Island Sound January 17 1901 No first-hand account flights known exist though Whiteheads assistant Anton Pruckner stated writing heard about amazing flights several per- sons claimed have present long after American Inventor magazine published letter Gustave Whitehead described length type p22 including its dimensions con struction operation included two quite clear ground photographs type #2l airplanes same letter invited editor see airplane photgraph Oeoslrarior models will stue 030 am mosaicS SWAP SHOP Tsr WOOMs coop Shop ran come oar 05 mobs nPOo astrac hoes wotO troanaron iadiodsal sewn charoiro saads help elimIsate sen ntaaOaacaunS Sway Shah 011 procior pararOis Oaotioa Soawn recolor snese roams seOO nrr-adorenned stamped aroelope Joha lnaintea 4 Oncue ff0 Laaorsmoaa ST 10530 SPCCIAL NOTE Thin yeaarnerru II ox aentriusOas ape romnor hour-up modem aognlaaaO may place swap Shop surreal ieroaesarioo carse 50 ltaeO Siesoem T500000c 50 VOOre pleser 5 F 50004054 ras-asab upsaceasrcr auclo uaRoeooELcrs Inc lebruary 26/21 lOAM to6PM flight suggests high level selfconfidence Whiteheads part Plans additional flights type #22 spring 1902 seem have come pass airplane said have deteriorated 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