“Zeitschrift für Luftschiffahrt” Jan. 1898, p.27, Bericht des “Wiener Flugtechnischer Vereins”

 

 

English translation:

 

                                                   Club News                                            27

 

 

In the first category - those making artificial flights in a regular manner - the speak-

er first cited the experiments of Dr. K. J. Dunilowski in Charkow, who is said to have

actually left te ground approximatly 80 times within a space of 2 hours; then those of
an American, Whitehead's "Condor Gus", with two pairs of wings. 

 

 

Original text (German):

 

                                              Vereinsnachrichten                                         27

 

   Als  e r s t e G r u p p e den g e w ö h n l i c h e n Kunstflug nehmend, erwähnte

der Vortragende der Experimente des Dr. K. J. Dunilowski in Charkow,  der binnen

2 Stunden circa 80 mal thatsächlich aufgestiegen sein soll;  dann des Amerikaners

Whitehead's: "Condor Gus" mit 2 Flügelpaaren.

 

 



Letter, John Whitehead to Stella Randolph, Sept. 3, 1934, pp.7-8

 

"I also remember my Brother telling me

quite often of his connections, also backing

he had with a Professor Pickering of some

one of the New England State Universitys in the

ninetys, when he was still single, he told

me often of his long flights he made in

Gliders those days..."