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Release the Gustav Whitehead pre-Wright motor flight photo currently being withheld by the National Air and Space Museum

Created by C.M. on March 02, 2016

In June of 2005,World War One Aero magazine editor Leonard Opdycke told me that the National Air and Space Museum's Aeronautics Curator,Tom Crouch once gave him a photocopy of one my great-grandfather's(Gustav Whitehead) motor flights. Mr.Opdycke says he can't find that photocopy.He did draw me a sketch of that photocopy as best he could remember it.That sketch can be seen on John Brown's,Gustave Whitehead website under"History of Whitehead critics".
In January of 1906,the Aero Club of America(ACA) displayed a Gustav Whitehead motor flight photo at their New York exhibition.
In 1922, the ACA changed it's name to the National Aeronautic Association(NAA).In 2012,the chairman of the NAA informed me that all Whitehead material was transferred to the National Air and Space Museum in 1975.

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