Gustave Whitehead, German-American pilot and engineer (born 1874)

Gustave Whitehead

19/20th-century German-American aviator

Gustave Albin Whitehead was a German–American aviation pioneer. Between 1897 and 1915, he designed and built gliders, flying machines, and engines. Controversy surrounds published accounts and Whitehead's own claims that he flew a powered machine successfully several times in…