"robert arndt" wrote in message
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Big deal. Historic replicas of the '01 Gustav-Weisskopf/Whitehead GW
No.21 have flown in both the '80s and '90s- the latter by a Luftwaffe
pilot.
Not true. No historic replica of the '01 Gustav-Weisskopf/Whitehead GW
No.21 has ever been built or flown.
The Wrights dismissed the aircraft as having flown first due to
its design... which they claimed "could never fly". The original
flight and the two replicas proved them wrong.
There's no reliable evidence that there was an "original flight", the
lookalike aircraft prove only that an aircraft that looks like Whitehead's
can fly. They say absolutely nothing about Whitehead's work.
The fact that the NASM
continues to present the Wrights flight at Kitty Hawk as where it all
began is BS.
Not.
It began with the GW No.21 in Connecticut in 1901.
There's no reliable evidence that Whitehead's aircraft flew.
If only the scientific reporter of that flight had used a camera
instead of a sketch of that flight aviation history would be very
different.
There was no scientific reporter of that "flight".
But of course Weisskopf was a German immigrant and not
intent on pioneering aviation; rather, he was fixated on engine
development which failed in the US. Returning to Germany after never
achieving US citizenship, Weisskof died... and was soon forgotten by
everyone except for those in Germany.
His name deserves to be up there with Lilienthal and Zeppelin.
Lilienthal and Zeppelin made contributions to the science of flight,
Whitehead did not.
But America will never see it no matter what the evidence.
No evidence.
Even if his
exact motors were duplicated today and a perfect replica flew the
Wright myth will continue on just like the Yeager myth of breaking
Mach 1 first.
Even if his exact motors were duplicated today and a perfect replica flew,
it would not prove that Whitehead flew.
When it comes to "official" history vs real history I'd settle for the
latter.
Your messages about Whitehead indicate you have little interest in real
history.
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