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Michigan Chronoscope - Stories on the fringe of history
Chronograph Numeral I - Autumn 2004 - Page One

Wright is Wrong!

Orville Wright's first flight on 17 December 1903

Powered, heavier than air flight has been heralded as the achievement of the Wright brothers. After years of study, research, sweat and hard work, they documented their powered flight at Kitty Hawk South Carolina on December 17, 1903. "So what, everyone knows that!" is the common response to such a statement but it is just as likely that they were not the first to do so. It is documented that the first manned, powered, heavier than air flight was accomplished here in Michigan by Augustus Moore Herring more than four years before the famous Wright brothers.
Mr. Herring worked closely with a man who was an associate and promoter of the Wright brothers, Octave Alexandre Chanute. Chanute, assisted by Herring, produced and flew in a number of glider designs

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Mystery Airship of 1897 Poster of Airship Play

Poster of 19th Century Parody

19th century reports of mystery airship sightings indicate U.S. cooperation in secret military test flights of powered rigid balloon designs. An airship arms race most likely developed between Germany and France long before WWI. Consider French aviation technology and the wars preceding WWI and France's alliances with Britain, Canada and the U.S.A., and a credible theory regarding the mystery airship sightings can be formed. This theory is as follows . . .

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Lions, Coyotes, & Bears! Killer Cat or Nice Kitty?

Mountain lion, panther or cougar

There's no denying Michigan's wildlife is making a come back after a century and a half of hunting and habitat destruction. Big game animals like moose & elk have been reintroduced and have herds in both peninsulas. The white-tailed deer herd is considered to be larger now than before Michigan became a state. Although some sensitive game species are gone or have a tenuous hold, the wild turkey has been reintroduced and is doing quite well. Many small game species have maintained or increased their numbers.
Of course people nowadays have a better appreciation for land management than during our State's early years which has helped the comeback of our forests and

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