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Old 08-19-2013, 04:05 AM  
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Originally Posted by LRS View Post
On December 17, 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright soared into history as inventors of the first successful airplane, which they called the Flyer. Since then, their ?first in flight? status has been commemorated on the North Carolina license plate and in countless history books. Now, however, the state of Connecticut is poised to put a law on the books stating that the achievement of the first powered flight belongs not to the Wrights but to Gustave Whitehead, a German immigrant who is believed by some historians to have made the momentous first flight in Bridgeport, Connecticut, more than two years earlier.

source: http://www.history.com/news/in-conne...irst-in-flight
Thanks for that, I see it's still mired in doubts
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