Gustave Whitehead and glider

Gustave Whitehead and glider

Whitehead, Gustave (1874-1927)
Aeronautics -- United States -- History

Gustave Whitehead, a German immigrant experimented with flight at the beginning of the 20th century. In 2013, the aviation "bible" Jane's All About Aircraft concluded from a study of the evidence (long debated) that Whitehead made powered flights two years before the Wright brothers, in the summer of 1901, in Fairfield, Bridgeport, and Stratford, Connecticut.

Thomas Watson [?]

William O'Dwyer/Gustave Whitehead collection (MS B107, Series A, Box 2).

1907

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Black and white photo in scrapbook.