Gustave Whitehead of Bridgeport, First in Flight

Last year's 8th grade engineering classes studied the aviator Gustave Whitehead. There is evidence that Whitehead may have flown in 1901, before the Wright brothers.  Governor Malloy has just signed a bill honoring Whitehead.

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