Were the Wright brothers first?
Being from Pittsburg, Texas my step grandfather used to talk about this contraption a lot. In fact he said of Baptist ministers "they were always a lot of hot air." Methodists and Baptists were of different breeds. Never found out whether the family had stock in that firm, but I doubt it or he did not want grandma to know. Text reprint from http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/11610 A handful of obscure, motorized airplanes claim to have been flown before the Wright brothers did so in 1903. But none has the civic support, or the biblical pedigree, of the one in Pittsburg, Texas, where a life-size replica hangs in an annex of the Depot Museum. The Rev. Burrell Cannon, a local Baptist minister, read in the Book of Ezekiel of "living creatures" rising from the earth and a "wheel within a wheel." He believed that these Bible passages contained the secret to powered flight. Cannon formed The Ezekiel Air Ship Mfg Co., sold $20,000 i...