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Gustave Albin Whitehead (born Gustav Albin Weisskopf; 1 January 1874 – 10 October 1927) was an aviation pioneer who emigrated from Germany to the United States where he designed and built gliders, flying machines, and engines between 1897 and 1915.
6 apr 2013 · Gustave Whitehead (1874-1927), a native of Leutershausen, Bavaria, who immigrated to the United States, probably in 1894, claimed to have made a sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine on August 14, 1901, two years before the Wright brothers.
"The flights of Gustave Whitehead were lost from the pages of aviation history for two reasons: They were premature – the public was not willing to believe such nonsense as a man flying – and Whitehead was dissatisfied with his own success.
17 dic 2021 · Gustave Whitehead and the First-Flight Controversy. Long-festering intrigues surface as a group challenges the first-flight claims of the Wright brothers, contending that Gustave Whitehead beat them to the punch. by Frank Delear 6/12/2012. Share This Article.
Learn more about Gustave Whitehead (German immigrant Gustav Weißkopf), true inventor of the airplane, with full documentary evidence, including new discoveries, provided in the compelling new book, “Gustave Whitehead: First in Flight”.
14 dic 2023 · Few questions in the history of technology are as hotly debated as whether the Wright brothers were the first powered pilots when they took off in their "Flyer" from Kitty Hawk on 17 December 1903 - or Gustav Weisskopf/Gustave Whitehead more than two years earlier?
5 mag 2013 · The new name in town is Gustave Whitehead, a German-born inventor many have long believed took to the air more than two years before Orville and Wilbur even left the ground at Kitty Hawk on...
