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	FLYING MACHINES - Gustave Whitehead
		Gustave Whitehead (born "Gustav Albin Weisskopf" on January 1, 1874, at Leutershausen, Germany) first became interested in flight while he was a youngster in Bavaria, Germany.
		Briefly, the claims of powered flight with Whitehead aboard were 1) a flight of a half-mile, with a passenger, in April or May of 1899; 2) a total of four flights on August 14, 1901, one of a half-mile at 2 a.m.
		Gustave Whitehead died at Bridgeport, Connecticut, on October 10, 1927.
	www.flyingmachines.org /gwhtd.html (1051 words)

	Gustave Whitehead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gustave Albin Whitehead, born Gustav Albin Weißkopf (January 1, 1874 – October 10, 1927), was a German-American aviation pioneer.
		Pitch was controlled by a tail wing, and yaw was controlled by altering the thrust on each of the two propellers.
		The Wright brothers visited Whitehead to discuss the purchase of one of his engines and exchanged ideas and discoveries regarding flight.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gustave_Whitehead (396 words)

	Whitehead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Whitehead, British mathematician and nephew of A. Whitehead
		Gustave Whitehead, German-American aviation pioneer, made first powered manned flight in 1901
		Whitehead, North Carolina, Alleghany County, North Carolina 36.2802N 81.0910W
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whitehead (162 words)

	Offers a resource for whitehead and more related whitehead sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Whitehead's ability to assimilate a great deal of information and then to explain his ideas in language understandable to the homeowner is refreshing and extremely comforting in a major remodel, and he creates an atmosphere of calm in a process that nearly always stormy at best.
		Gustave Whitehead Gustave Albin Whitehead, born Gustav Albin Weißkopf (January 1, 1874 - October 10, 1927), was a German-American aviation pioneer.
		Whitehead Institute Founded in 1984, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a non-profit research and teaching institution located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
	discoveryweb.net /acne/whitehead.html (2261 words)

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		Gustave Whitehead, of Bridgeport, Conn., who has been studying the subject of mechanical flight for upward of fifteen years.
		Whitehead consists in running with the aeroplane against the wind, preceded by an assistant who draws it with a rope when it leaves the ground.
		Whitehead is now constructing one of 6 horse power which will weigh between 25 and 30 pounds.
	invention.psychology.msstate.edu /library/Magazines/Whitehead.html (738 words)

	Flight Journal magazine - Articles - The 'Who Flew First' Debate - Page 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Gustav Weisskopf (Gustave Whitehead) monument erected in 1991 near Whitehead's birthplace in Leutershausen, Germany, is crowned by an all-metal, full-scale skeletal airframe.
		The ultimate outcome of all of this was that two Whitehead airframes were built—one by a team here in the USA in 1985 to '86 and one by a team in Germany in the 1990s.
		Gustave Whitehead was among the first to state that he laid no claim to inventing the first practical flying machine.
	www.flightjournal.com /articles/wff/wff6.asp (1124 words)

	Central High School - whitehead1
		At age 13 Gustave Whitehead and his brothers Nicholas and John were orphaned, so the young Weisskopf worked his way to Brazil as a seaman.
		One enigmatic figure in aviation history whose supporters say he made controlled flights as early as 1899 was Gustave Whitehead, a poor, German immigrant to the United States.
		Whitehead on the occasion when he succeeded in flying his machine, propelled by steam motor, on a flight of approximately a half mile distance, at a height of about 20 to 25 feet from the ground.
	bridgeport.ct.schoolwebpages.com /education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=21662 (595 words)

	Gustave Whitehead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Gustave Albin Whitehead, born Gustav Albin Weißkopf (January 1, 1874 – October 10, 1927), was a German-American aviation pioneer.
		His first flight took place on August 14 1901 in Connecticut when he flew his Number 21 three times, as reported by the, the New York Herald and the.
		On December 29, 1986 made 20 flights and reached a maximum distance of 100 meters (330 feet).
	www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Gustave_Whitehead (399 words)

	Aerospaceweb.org \| Ask Us - Who Was the First to Fly
		Gustave Whitehead is just one of these innovators, though his claim is probably stronger than most.
		Gustav Weisskopf (1874-1927) was born in Germany but emigrated to the US and anglicized his name to Gustave Whitehead in 1895.
		Whitehead moved his family to Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he took a job as a mechanic around the turn of the century.
	www.aerospaceweb.org /question/history/q0159.shtml (3207 words)

	Gustav Weisskopf - History
		At the controls was the German inventor and builder, Leutershausen born, Gustave A. Whitehead (Weisskopf).
		Gustave Albin Whitehead (Weisskopf) was born on 1 January 1874 in Leutershausen, Bavaria, Germany, the second child of Karl Weisskopf and his spouse Babetta.
		Whitehead was not injured, as he had been in the front part of the machine steering it".
	www.weisskopf.de /history.htm (1757 words)

	Gustave Whitehead: First-Flight Controversy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Whitehead said her husband's first words upon returning home from Fairfield on August 14, 1901, were an excited, "Mama, we went up!" Mrs.
		Whitehead's efforts to solve the problems of flight took their toll on the family budget.
		Whitehead's then surviving daughters-Rose Rennison, Lilian Baker and Nellie Kusterer-were present, as were Anton Pruckner and representatives of all U.S. Armed Forces, the CAHA, the 9315th Squadron, and state and local governments.
	www.thehistorynet.com /ahi/blgwhitehead/index3.html (1975 words)

	The Pioneers : An Anthology : Gustave Albin Whitehead (1874 - 1927)
		Whitehead died of a massive heart attack, on Oct 10, 1927, after attempting to lift an engine out of an automobile he was repairing.
		The Whitehead monument atop the obelisk structure is outside the north gate that enters the ancient walled city of Leutershausen.
		Whitehead, or Weisskopf in his native language, was a German immigrant with an undeniable passion for aviation.
	www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/whitehead.html (4660 words)

	The UnMuseum - Gustave Whitehead
		According to at least one biography, Whitehead was fascinated by aviation from an early age and was inspired by the glider flights of Otto Lillienthal to built his own model glider at age 13.
		Gustave Whitehead took his place at the controls of the machine, the men gave it a preliminary push, and it trundled away on its three wheels and was off!
		Of course, Whitehead's supporters point out that the German immigrant was not a man a letters, but a mechanic, and the fact that he simply did not bother to document his flights does not mean that he did not actually make them.
	www.unmuseum.org /gustave.htm (1786 words)

	Forskning & Framsteg 1/02 - Bröderna Wright var först
		The major claim is that Gustave Whitehead flew a powered, heavier—than—air flying machine before the Wright brothers flew in 1903.
		Whitehead built a number of aircraft, but the one that is the subject of the primary claims was known as the "No. 21." There are many scattered flight claims for Whitehead in various aircraft.
		A) Whitehead allegedly made four flights on August 14, 1901, in a machine called the "No. 21." One was claimed to have been a half-mile in length, another one-and-a-half miles.
	www.fof.se /?id=02150a1\|artikel (2398 words)

	Connecticut's Heritage Gateway
		In fact, compelling evidence exists that Bridgeport's own Gustave Whitehead, a German immigrant who worked on his dream of a "heavier than air machine" at his Pine Street home, may have beat the Wright Brothers by well over a year.
		Whitehead himself later described two successful flights in a April, 1902 letter to the editor of American Inventor.
		Regardless of who flew first, Gustave Whitehead: First in Flight captures the excitement of early flight through photographs of Whitehead, the Wright Brothers, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Otto Lilienthal and other early pioneers in powered flight.
	www.ctheritage.org /calendarBestBet.htm (238 words)

	Wing flap - OrlandoSentinel.com:
		Whitehead, who as a boy built parachutes and trapped birds to examine their wings, is said to have flown his bat-winged airplane No. 21 over Fairfield, Conn., on Aug. 14, 1901 - two years before Kitty Hawk.
		The way supporters of Gustave Whitehead tell it, the inventor cracked the problem of flight in August of 1901.
		A German seaman with an aptitude for mechanics, Whitehead arrived in the United States in 1894 and experimented with flying machines in Boston, Baltimore and Pittsburgh before settling in Bridgeport, Conn., around 1900.
	www.orlandosentinel.com /bal-wingflap05,0,286876.story (1057 words)

	Gustave Whitehead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Gustave Albin Whitehead''', born '''Gustav Albin Weißkopf (January 1, 1874 – October 10, 1927), was a GermanyGerman-United StatesAmerican aviation historyaviation pioneer/.
		There are witness reports that he flew about 1km (half a mile) as early as 1899.
		It has been suggested that the reason his flights are so little known is that he was of German origin and that the Wright brothers donated their Wright flyer to the Smithsonian Institute on condition the institute did not recognize an earlier aeroplane.
	www.infothis.com /find/Gustave_Whitehead (342 words)

	Flight Journal: "who flew first" debate, The
		It was enough to have Whitehead recognized as the "Father of Connecticut Aviation," regardless of whether he flew with power or not.
		Gustave is seated on the ground under the right wing holding his daughter, Rose, on his lap.
		A single blurred photograph of a large birdlike machine propelled by compressed air and which was constructed by Whitehead in 1901 was the only other photograph besides that of Langley's [scale model] machines of a motor-driven aeroplane in successful flight.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3897/is_199810/ai_n8815811 (1491 words)

	11/00 mechanical engineering: letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Gustave Whitehead with his plane, dubbed No. 21, which reportedly made successful flights in August 1901, more than two years before the Wright Flyer took off.
		Smith wrote of Gustave Whitehead, who took off in his two-engine monoplane and flew a half-mile on Aug. 12, 1901.
		Full documentation may be found in The Lost Flights of Gustave Whitehead, by Stella Randolph, and History by Contract, by William O'Dwyer.
	www.memagazine.org /backissues/nov00/departments/letters/letters.html (1020 words)

	Whitehead Claims To Be The First To Fly A Heaveyer Than Air Aircraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On August 8, 1901, Gustave Whitehead an immigrant of Germany reported to authorities that he gained flight in his flying machine.
		Whitehead reported he had made a series of flights in a field in Fairfield, Connecticut.
		He stated that he was able to sustain flight where he gained an altitude of 200 feet and and flew 1.5 miles just before dawn.
	avstop.com /news/whitehead.html (152 words)

	UNC-TV:Mystery Of Flight
		Later on the same day, Whitehead and his power driven plane are reported to have made three other flights, according to the Bridgeport Sunday Post.
		However, on January 17, 1902, Whitehead reportedly made two flights in a monoplane with a kerosene-burning engine: one over Lordship Manor for two miles, and one over Long Island Sound for seven miles.
		However, because Whitehead failed to document his flights, and in 1939 Stanley Beach recounted his earlier statements about Whitehead's flight, the inventor was not publicly credited with having invented powered flight.
	www.unctv.org /firstflight/GAWhitehead.html (180 words)

	Gustave Whitehead
		Gustave Whitehead was born Gustave Alvin Weisskopf on January 1st, 1874, in Leuterhausen, Bavaria, Germany.
		Later, in Ansbach, at the age of 13, Gustave attempted a glider flight from the roof of a building at his family's home.
		In the summer of 1900, the Whitehead’s moved into 241 Pine Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the address from which much of Gustave's early work was completed.
	www.earlyaviators.com /ewhitehe.htm (673 words)

	The Gustave Whitehead Webring
		The Gustave Whitehead Webring is a Web Ring dedicated to the enthusiasts and supporters of Gustave Whitehead.
		Bridgeport's Gustave Whitehead was the 1st to fly, some say, but a century later they still lack proof (dead link)
		I was dismayed to find that there was no real central authoritative depository of information on Gustave Whitehead, that it all seemed to be a confederation of a lot of good information.
	www.gatm.com /whitehead (863 words)

	GUSTAVE WHITEHEAD FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Gustave Albin Whitehead, born Gustav Albin WeiÃkopf (January_1, 1874 – October_10, 1927), was a German-American aviation pioneer.
		His first flight took place on August_14 1901 in Connecticut when he flew his Number 21 three times, as reported by the Bridgeport_Herald, the New_York_Herald and the Boston_Transcript.
		On December_29, 1986 Andrew_Kosch made 20 flights and reached a maximum distance of 100 meters (330 feet).
	www.witwib.com /Gustave_Whitehead (367 words)

	Encyclopedia: Gustave Whitehead
		Number 21 was the name of the aeroplane Gustave Whitehead allegedly flew with on August 14, 1901 - two years before the Wright brothers first flight.
		The New York Herald was a large distribution newspaper based in New York City that existed between May 6, 1835 and 1924.
		Depending on the criteria, the Wright brothers may or may not have been the first to invent a flying machine There are conflicting views as to what was the first flying machine.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gustave-Whitehead (838 words)

	New England Air Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is written that Whitehead flew this machine on August 14, 1901 in the vicinity of Fairfield though more distance is claimed for the flight than is reasonable.
		Whitehead continued flying with an improved airplane in 1902, which led to grossly exaggerated claims.
		Beach sponsored Gustave Whitehead and played around with several projects, none of which produced anything of real technical value.
	www.neam.org /avindct2.htm (826 words)

	Attractions
		Whitehead was a German immigrant who settled in the West End of Bridgeport, in 1900.
		Whitehead conducted other flights at Sport Hill in Easton; Lordship; the Tunxis Hill and Turney Road areas of Fairfield; and near the present site of Captain’s Cove Seaport.
		Unfortunately, Whitehead kept no photographic record of these experiments, while the Wright brothers were careful to scientifically document, and promote, their work.
	www.captainscoveseaport.com /attractions.htm (362 words)

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