John Brown

Gustave Whitehead and the Wright Brothers John Brown

Who flew first? Advances in flight physics and the digitization of archives now allow closer examination of the claims of aviation pioneers. Did they really do what they claimed? The author, John Brown, uses modern methods to revisit the claims of the Wright Brothers and to examine the history of their contemporary, Gustave Whitehead. The result reveals an entirely different history of first flight than that which many have come to believe.