On March 8th, 2013 Jane's All the World’s Aircraft, the published authority in aviation, rewrote history and credited Gustave Whitehead with the first manned flight of a heavier than air, powered, fixed-wing aircraft.
The Smithsonian signed an Agreement with the co-executors of the Orville Wright Estate in November 23, 1948, in order to acquire and retain "the Wright Aeroplane of 1903." This contract provides for restrictive recognition of the Wright Brothers as inventors and builders of "the World's First Power-Driven Heavier-than-Air Machine in Which Man Made Free, Controlled and Sustained Flight."
Because the Smithsonian stands as a font of knowledge and inspiration not only for Americans, but the people of the world - this contract must be dissolved.