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Were They The Wrong Brothers, Then?
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North Carolina is where the Wright Brothers first flew. Dayton is where they were from. The two locations have been fighting over who gets to say they were the birthplace of modern flight. Now, there's a third player: Connecticut, which claims that Gustave Whitehead beat the Wrights to flight with a stunt two years earlier than Kitty Hawk. And there's evidence, but Ohio and North Carolina are both attacking the claim. Does it matter? And if Whitehead really did fly first, should history be rewritten or is it too late? (New York Times)
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