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Sounds pretty fantastic, really...but wait, there's more:Whitehead and another man drove to the testing area in the machine, which worked like a car when the wings were folded along its sides. Two other people, including the newspaper reporter, followed on bicycles. For short distances the Number 21's speed was close to thirty miles an hour on the uneven road...there seems no doubt that the machine can reel off forty miles an hour and not exert the engine to its fullest capacity.
It was also reported that Whitehead tested his machine unmanned by using tether ropes and sandbag ballast...so was this an airship or aircraft?He simply shifted his weight more to one side than the other. This careened the ship to one side. She turned her nose away from the clump of sprouts when within fifty yards of them and took her course around them as prettily as a yacht on the sea avoids a bar. The ability to control the air ship in this manner appeared to give Whitehead confidence, for he was seen to take time to look at the landscape about him. He looked back and waved his hand exclaiming, 'I've got it at last.
Well I dunno, some evidence is there. How long was it thought that Christopher Columbus discovered America? I guess time and more research will tell.
Well if he found "indians" here, then how could he have "discovered" it?