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   "Truth never damages a cause that is jus t."-- Mahatma Gandhi Predecessors of the Kill Devil Hills Coast Guard, below, were witnesses of the Wright brothers "flights" on December 17, 1903. American heroes on the job.  The Kill Devil Hills Coast Guard rescues crew from stricken ship in 1938. Getting the Story Right There is a new blog in town called "Getting the Story Wright." The stated purpose: a "defense against those who would attempt to revise history, and discredit the Brothers (sic) of their rightful claim to first powered heavier than air flight. From their hometown of Dayton Ohio, Birthplace of Aviation."(sic) From this contemporaneous blog, we have the following statement: "Photographic evidence of the flight, 'the first in the history of the world in which a machine carrying a man had raised itself by its own power into the air in full flight, had sailed forward without reduction of speed, and had finally landed at

  "Curators are .. required to “ensure the integrity and objectivity of their scholarship and research projects by compiling reference materials and supporting documentation, keeping abreast of current scholarship."- - from the Code of Museum Ethics   Gustave Whitehead reproduction in flight. Link to a slide show about Whitehead. Readers: There has been a long, ongoing debate regarding the contributions to aviation of pioneer Gustave Whitehead, who was a German immigrant to the United States. Whitehead made a manned, powered sustained flight two years before the Wrights that was witnessed and reported in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The Smithsonian Institution has been vehemently opposed to Whitehead's history, stating that there is no proof and supporting the Orville Wright story that Whitehead's flights were a myth. However, the objections Orville Wright made to the Whitehead history have been mostly refuted by Whitehead researchers. Further, more evidence has been