North Carolina, Ohio Team Up to Fight Connecticut’s “First in Flight” Claim

Thursday, 24 October 2013 | by Pat's Picks

The Wright Brothers built their plane in Ohio and flew it in North Carolina - and those two states have long shared the claim to aviation history. But the Charlotte News and Observer says legislators from both states are fighting a new Connecticut law that gives credit to the first flight to a Bavarian immigrant named Gustave Whitehead. Whitehead claimed to have flown 2 miles in 1901, but the evidence of that flight is a bit sketchy.

SOURCE: Charlotte Observer