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Monday, August 19, 2013

Publication says 1st powered flight in Connecticut, not North Carolina

... the first to achieve powered flight with their airplane on Dec. 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, N.C., the folks in Bridgeport, Conn., say German immigrant Gustave Whitehead got airborne there two years earlier -- Aug. 18, 1901 -- reaching a height of 40 ...



via Bridgeport Newswire http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2013/08/18/Publication-says-1st-powered-flight-in-Connecticut-not-North-Carolina/UPI-15811376883739/

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