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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: 64. Chapters: Mathias Rust, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Gustave Whitehead, Ernst Udet, Hans-Georg von Seidel, Hanna Reitsch, Hugo Eckener, Otto Lilienthal, Adolf Ritter von Tutschek, Wilhelm Duerkop, Hans Baur, Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Max Ritter von Muller, Gotthard Sachsenberg, Erich Warsitz, Markus Feyerabend, Gunther Pluschow, Beate Uhse-Rotermund, Hermann Frommherz, Heinrich Bongartz, Elly Beinhorn, Gustav Dorr, Matthias Dolderer, Melitta Schenk Grafin von Stauffenberg, Ernst A. Lehmann, Olaf Schmidt, Emil Clade, Klaus Schrodt, Amelie Beese, Robert Lusser, Paul Schulte, Wolf Hirth, Ehrenfried Gunther Freiherr von Hunefeld, Albrecht Berblinger, Peter Riedel, Paul Haenlein, Franz-Zeno Diemer, Reinhold Tiling, Hans-Werner Grosse, Baron F. M. Koenig Warthausen, Hans-Joachim Pancherz, Max Pruss, Helmut Reichmann, August von Parseval, Albert Sammt, Heini Dittmar, Wolf Lemke, Karl Jatho, Reinhold Poss, Klaus Holighaus, Klaus Ohlmann, Carl Friedrich Meerwein, Fritz Wendel, Julius Hatry, Walter Extra, Gustav Lilienthal, Helmut Steinbrecher, Karl Schlegel, Thea Rasche, Hermann Dorner. 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 feat, and he and eyewitnesses said he made several other powered flights that y...
