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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: People from the District of Ansbach, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Gustave Whitehead, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Feuchtwangen, Walter Burkert, Georg-Peter Eder, Dinkelsbuhl, Zenn Valley Railway, Johann Haller, Windsbach, Dietenhofen, Johannes Seidlitz, Hans Eckert, Leutershausen, Wittelshofen, Willibald Unfried, Karl Amson Joel, Johann Christoph Gatterer, Heilsbronn, Herrieden, Ornbau, Siegfried von Feuchtwangen, Lichtenau, Bavaria, Wassertrudingen, Altes Brauhaus, Weidenbach, Bavaria, Cornelia Dumler, Wolframs-Eschenbach, Adelshofen, Middle Franconia, Maximilian Perty, Lehrberg, Schillingsfurst, Bruckberg, Middle Franconia, Ehingen, Middle Franconia, Merkendorf, Bavaria, Wettringen, Bavaria, Bechhofen, Sachsen bei Ansbach, Mitteleschenbach, Schopfloch, Bavaria, Wornitz, Wilburgstetten, Buch am Wald, Dentlein, Unterschwaningen, Petersaurach, Stadel bei Herrieden, Flachslanden, Monchsroth, Weihenzell, Windelsbach, Oberdachstetten, Gerolfingen, Steinsfeld, Rockingen, Dombuhl, Weiltingen, Burgoberbach, Durrwangen, Gebsattel, Schnelldorf, Rugland, Ohrenbach, Insingen, Arberg, Colmberg, Neusitz, Langfurth, Burk, Bavaria, Diebach, Geslau, Wieseth. Excerpt: Gustave Albin Whitehead, born Gustav Albin Weisskopf (January 1, 1874 - October 10, 1927) was an aviation pioneer who immigrated from Germany to the U.S., where he designed and built early flying machines and engines to power them. In the decades since, several non-academic researchers have promoted their belief that Whitehead made controlled, powered airplane flights more than two years before the Wright Brothers. These claims have repeatedly been dismissed by mainstream aviation scholars. Whitehead's reputation rests largely on a detailed local newspaper article that said he made a powered controlled flight in Connecticut in August 1901. He personally claimed credit for the ...
