North Carolina and Ohio had been quietly feuding over the title of "first in flight" for more than a century by the time a third state — Connecticut — threw its hat in the ring. Though the Wright brothers built the pieces of their pioneering Wright Flyer aircraft in their home state of Ohio, they successfully assembled those pieces and took to the sky in North Carolina in 1903. According to the Nutmeg State, however, one Gustave Whitehead beat the brothers to the punch in 1901 with a flying machine described in a contemporaneous article that has since been found unreliable. The state Legislature even passed a 2014 measure declaring Connecticut first in flight. In retaliation, Ohio lawmakers unanimously passed a resolution of their own that "repudiates recent claims made by state lawmakers in Connecticut that it is home to man's first flight." Ohio declares itself the "birthplace of aviation," while North Carolina's license plates boast "first in flight." If there's one thing both states — and most other sources — can agree on, it's that Whitehead's claims were exaggerated. | 
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