Pictures, Or It Didn't Happen....

Chances are you won't recognise this man or have heard his name. He is Gustave Whitehead.

How about this pair of brothers?

You may need help with the faces though they would once have been instantly recognisable across the world, but you know their names. They are Orville and Wilbur Wright. That's Orville on the left and almost everything you think you know about them is probably wrong.

Here's an easy pair:

No help from me this time.

So who was Gustave Whitehead?

In 1901 and two years before the Wrights pushed their aircraft out into the freezing headwinds at Kill Devil Hills, Gustave Whitehead, a German born aviation pioneer, piloted his Number 21 aircraft on a flight which exceeded the Wright's 1903 attempt in both distance and altitude.

The Wright brothers however had the presence of mind ask to John T Daniels to accompany them that day.

And Daniels was a photographer.

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