Mr. Whitehead has been making air ships

since he was six years old. His first one was
constructed at that early age out of

his grandmother’s Sunday parasol. That
was in far off Bavaria. After passing

through the high school of Ausperg, the

youthful inventor became discontented with

his slow xxxxxxx and started about the

globe on a maritime career.



Randolph, Stella, Lost Flights of Gustave Whitehead, p.13