Connecticut tries to ground NC’s ‘First in Flight’ claim

The state of Connecticut is looking to ground North Carolina’s claim of ‘First in Flight.’

State leaders there are trying to recognize Gustave Whitehead as the man who first went airborne.

Whitehead was a German immigrant, he built engine-powered machines meant to fly, and claims to have flown two miles in 1901, two years before the Wright brothers took off here in Kitty Hawk.