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
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