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The
"Historical Flight Research Committee
Gustav Weißkopf (Whitehead)" (HFRC-GW)
has made it to its task
to gain appropriate recognition for the Aviation Pioneer Weißkopf
(in the United States he called himself Whitehead) who on
August 14, 1901, achieved the first motorized flight. The aim
of the Committee is to research and to make public the facts
about Weißkopf´s life, activities, and work, and
to place him into that niche of Aviation History where he rightfully
belongs.
One of the major projects
of the "Research Committee" was to reconstruct Weißkopf´s
1901 flying machine "No. 21".
In 1996 "man-carrying,
auto-towed flights" were performed with the "No.
21" replica, and in 1997, pilot-controlled motorized flights
were successfully achieved. With this, it is now provable that
the technology used by Weißkopf was suitable for flight.
Furthermore it was proven that his flying machine "No.
21" had the technical requirements for controlled flights.
The statements of witnesses to Weißkopf´s pioneering
deeds therefore prove to be true. |
