A one half scale model of Gustave Whitehead's Number 21, the plane he reportedly  flew over Fairfield on the morning of August 14, 1901, on display at the Fairfield Museum and Histopry Center's annual Fall Festival on Sunday, September 12, 2010. The flight, which was reported in that week's Bridgeport Sunday Herald, was over two years before the Wright Brothers famous first flight. Photo: Brian A. Pounds / Connecticut Post
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