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Nobody can prove Whitehead didn't fly, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and that is simply lacking for Whitehead's flight.

Do you believe those small and inefficiently shaped Whitehead wings would fly with the likely engine power he had?

The rest of the evidence for Whitehead requires a lot of generous giving of benefit of the doubt as well.

The Whitehead design is copied from birds, indicating a lack of understanding how wings worked.

If he left all the Whitehead quotes out, wouldn't it be a better presentation?

They'd redone Russell and Whitehead with machine proofs.

Even if it is, I would suspect Whitehead would have flown it as he flew gliders - launching off the top of a hill and gliding down.

[1], the Alfred North Whitehead quotes are great food for thought: you dive into it just as much you are able to swim.

This is why Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems came as such a shock, at a time when many people expected to be able to systematize all of mathematics and predicate it on a handful of unassailable logical principles (as Russell and Whitehead attempted to do in the early 20th century).

Returning to England, Russell spends the next decade laboring with Alfred North Whitehead to complete the epic “Principia Mathematica” — all the while doing his best to seduce Whitehead’s comely wife, Evelyn.

Alfred Whitehead said: "'Necessity is the mother of invention' is a silly proverb.

Unity Technologies): "“Eventually we realized the tech we were working on was bigger than the game,” says Whitehead."

Then I came to the line: "Whitehead also built gliders until about 1906 and was photographed flying them." And indeed, the photos are in the article.

This seems similar to Alfred North Whitehead's idea of pulses/buds of perception, from the 1920's, sans the metaphysical aspect.

Whitehead flew with full control authority (3 axis') in 1902 and the Wright Brothers in 1903.

Whitehead's design flew first but it was ultimately a dead end aside from his powerplant.