Change in flight history

[Hagar]

[quote]I think Whitehead flew across the Long Island Sound with a second plane he built. Now that must have been a controled flight.

[Woodlouse2002]

Maybe he didn't keep log books because there was no official way of doing things aeronautically back then. There weren't even airplanes, so who say's you have to have a log book? Oh, and for the record, I don't really care who was first. Even if they all made their flights simultaneously, they all developed their ideas independently so each one was a new invention in itself.

No, but the nautical ways which were simply carbon copied for air travel were long established. Anyway, no one says he had to have a logbook as we know it to be. But any inventor keeps notes and records of what they did.

[pepper_airborne]

That was a second plane, thus could have been after the Wright Brothers.

But, we all know that a lot of aviatiors were bizzy in those days, all around the world, so it wouldnt surprise me if a whole lot more people managed to get themselves flying.