Millard County Chronicle | 1932-01-14 | Page 5 | Nebraska Man Makes Claim to First Plane

nebraska man makes claim to first plane havelock neb thirty four years ago G A hughes drew the plans for a flying machine in 1902 he ed a model plane and sent it into the sky hughes challenges any airplane manufacturer today to show any item of major consequence that has been developed in airplane construction which does not hinge on some of his plans in bolstering his claim that he was the original inventor of a plane to nav gate the air hughes points out that he built 62 model planes finances handicapped him he says from car ryang his project through he applied for a patent on his queer looking machine a boxlike contrad alon with a wing spread of 9 feet in 1899 several years before men actual ly flew hugl es demonstrated his plane pline at a fair in wray colo in 1898 ills his model flew successfully