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Ohio Finalizes Defense of Wright Brothers’ 1st Flight

By Julie Carr Smyth, AP Statehouse Correspondent | October 21, 2015

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Ohio is ready to deliver its formal comeback to Connecticut’s claim that another aviator beat the Wright brothers as first in flight, defending what one witness described Wednesday as “a marketing brand of enormous value.”

A resolution repudiating Connecticut’s claim was receiving its final approvals Wednesday and its sponsor said the third state in the Wright fight — North Carolina — was supportive. The Wrights were born in Ohio and took their first flight off Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.

The Ohio measure responds to a 2013 Connecticut law honoring aviator Gustave Whitehead as flying in 1901, two years ahead of Dayton residents Orville and Wilbur Wright.

The dispute has escalated in recent years, launching documentation fights among aviation experts, defenses of the Wrights citing the scholarship of major institutions such as the National Air & Space Museum and publication this summer of a 432-page book laying out the case of Whitehead’s claim.

“We are an educated people who deserve to know the truth, to know what actually happened, rather than a glorified fairy tale,” author Susan Brinchman wrote in releasing the book.

Amanda Wright Lane, the great-grand-niece of the Wright brothers, made a repeat trip to the Ohio Statehouse on Wednesday to support her relatives’ legacy. She told an Ohio Senate committee ahead of the first flight resolution’s unanimous approval that their 12-second flight “changed our nation and our world and, frankly, our relationship with the universe forever.”

Lane said her uncles meticulously recorded their research and accomplishments, in writing and on camera, and their claim to flying the first powered, heavier-than-air machine is unquestionable.

She said their flight is represented in the “iconic photo” of the Wright flyer, “journals of data, letters, testimony, patent applications, more photos and published research.”

Connecticut Sen. Kevin Kelly has continued to defend his state’s law. He says he wonders why Ohio’s leaders “aren’t even intrigued.”


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