Tom Pieragostini: Connecticut rightly taking credit for Whitehead flight

... the first person to fly in a controlled powered airplane on Aug. 14, 1901. His flight was first reported in the Bridgeport Sunday Herald, which included a lithograph of him in flight. The news of his "flight" spread quickly throughout the United ...



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