This undated picture provided by the Weisskopf Museum shows a portrait of aviation pioneer Gustave Whitehead. Connecticut's leading role in aviation has never been disputed, but in June 2013, ...

Tom Crouch, aviation historian and senior curator of the Division of Aeronautics at the National Air and Space Museum, will critique the evidence that Gustave Whitehead flew before the Wright brothers ...

The ongoing battle between historians over who was really first in flight was rekindled last week. New research advances the theory that a German immigrant in Connecticut is responsible for the first ...

A state representative will rally Ohio lawmakers to declare the Wright brothers the first to fly an airplane after the state of Connecticut contended Gustave Whitehead beat the Dayton brothers in ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio >> An Ohio lawmaker has given a framed copy of his resolution rejecting Connecticut’s claim that another aviator beat the Wright brothers as first in flight to an aviation history ...

Today, Wilbur and Orville Wright are as synonymous with the first to achieve powered flight as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are with the first to walk on the moon. But it wasn’t always so. In a four ...

Ohio and North Carolina drew a line on the tarmac Thursday in the fight over who was first to make a powered airplane flight. Ohio license plates proclaim the state is the “Birthplace of Aviation” ...

Everyone knows the story of the first manned airplane flight, right? The Ohio-based Wright Brothers flew a biplane more than 850 feet across North Carolina’s Outer Banks in December of 1903. That ...

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut (Reuters) - Gustave Whitehead is not a household name in the United States, but fans of the aviation pioneer who contend he conducted a manned flight with a powered engine ...

FAIRFIELD -- Efforts to delay the demolition of a house built by aviator Gustave Whitehead might have gained traction Tuesday. "I took it upon myself to do a title search on this house," said Melanie ...