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May, 1975
Not many people know this--and still fewer believe it--but the first powered flight by a manned heavier-than-air craft may have taken place not at Kitty Hawk in 1903 but four decades earlier somewhere around Luckenbach, Texas. According to local legend, in the middle 1860s, an imaginative German immigrant named Jacob Brodbeck built a winged contraption powered by agiant coil spring and managed to fly it to treetop level before he crashed, breaking a leg and embarrassing the townfolk, who hushed...
