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Shout out also to Lyman Gilmore, a resident of Grass Valley, CA who had a slightly plausible claim to first powered flight in May 1902. No one takes the claim too seriously but the guy did have some interesting early aviation experiments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman_Gilmore



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