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Gustave Whitehead and the First-Flight Controversy
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Aviation History |
Meanwhile, the long-suffering ghost of Gustave Whitehead still stands in the wings awaiting its summons on stage.
This article was originally published in the March 1996 issue of Aviation History and written by Frank Delear, a native of Boston and a retired public relations director of Sikorsky Aircraft, Stratford, Conn. He is the author of five books and many newspaper and magazine articles, including a feature on Harriet Quimby in Aviation History, January 1991. For further reading: History by Contract, by William J. O’Dwyer; and Before The Wrights Flew, by Stella Randolph.
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