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Marcus Aurelius
06-27-2013, 07:49 AM
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/06/27/it-official-connecticut-gov-signs-bill-writing-wright-brothers-out-history/?test=latestnews


First in flight? Yeah, right.

That's the message from Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who announced Wednesday that he had signed into law a measure insisting that Bridgeport resident Gustave Whitehead flew in 1901 -- two years before Wilbur and Orville Wright lifted off from Kitty Hawk, N.C.



Here's why he and the law sponsors are idiots.
http://www.wright-brothers.org/History_Wing/History_of_the_Airplane/Who_Was_First/Gustav_Whitehead/Gustav_Whitehead.htm

Marcus Aurelius
06-27-2013, 08:00 AM
this picture of pictures, is apparently their proof.
http://www.wright-brothers.org/History_Wing/History_of_the_Airplane/Who_Was_First/Gustav_Whitehead/Gustav_Whitehead_images/1906-New-York-Aviation-Exhibition-with-alleged-Gustave-Whitehead-flight-photo.jpg

what do you see in this?

tailfins
06-27-2013, 11:57 AM
Next item on Malloy's agenda: Repeal the law of gravity.