A historic Gloster Meteor jet fighter took to the skies over South West England’s Gloucestershire today. But rather than flying it made the journey slung under a Royal Air Force helicopter. Hundreds of people gathered this afternoon to watch the amazing scenes as the aircraft was lifted from Imjin Barracks and transported 1.5 miles over the rooftops of [...]
The daughter of FJ writer William O’Dwyer, Sue Brinchman, has taken up the cause of her father, i.e. to establish Whitehead as the first to fly and is demanding that the Smitshonian be forced to invalidate the above mentioned contract. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Smithsonian Requested to Nullify Wright Brothers First in Flight Contract Bridgeport, Conn [...]
John Brown: This is in reply to your widely distributed, ”Open letter to Tom Crouch,” posted on March 24, 2013. I will make this as clear and concise as I can, addressing what seem to be your major points. With regard to access to the Hammer Collection: If I ever told you that I was [...]
Dear Tom, Thanks for taking the time to respond to my writings about Gustave Whitehead in a Smithsonian press release, in the current issue of Smithsonian Magazine and in an NPR- interview given in your home town of Dayton, Ohio. As much as I appreciate your efforts, you appear to have missed the point I [...]
Ladies & Gentlemen, On your website, you have entered the Wright/Whitehead debate citing ” an effort at maintaining a neutral position”. I am the historian who uncovered a photo of Mr. Whitehead in powered flight in 1901: click here My website details the history of Mr. Whitehead: www.gustave-whitehead.com and it adds 83 contemporary newspaper articles [...]
By Tom Crouch, Courtesy of the National Air and Space Museum John Brown, an Australian researcher living in Germany, has unveiled a website claiming that Gustave Whitehead (January 1, 1874-October 10, 1927), a native of Leutershausen, Bavaria, who immigrated to the United States, probably in 1894, made a sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine [...]
As you may have noticed, I recently had the pleasure of reviewing an aviation art book by the renowned Roy Grinnell.
1915 – The first British tactical bombing raids in support of ground troops made in Menin and Courtai, Belgium. 1932 – First flight of the Junkers Ju 52/3m, a tri-motor transport that flew into the 1980s. 1956 – Dan Perkins, engineer at Britain’s Royal Aircraft Establishment, makes his first flight in an inflatable airplane in Bedfordshire, England. It takes 25 minutes to inflate [...]
