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These photos come from an assortment of places - books, websites and family collections - There is the notable absence of any pictures of Gustave's inventions actually in the air. There may have never been any taken - or, as some accuse, they may have been willfully destroyed.

hoto Gallery

Whitehead Plane No. 21

Whitehead Plane No. 21 

Three cylinder Whitehead motor

Model of Steam Engine motor by Whitehead

Propellor testing apparatus 

Whitehead glider (circa 1900)

Two-cylinder Whitehead motor

Whitehead glider modeled after the albatross

Glider, driven by John Whitehead

Rear view of a plane similar to No. 21

Glider of 1901-04 period

Glider of 1901-04 period aloft

Whitehead helicopter of 1911

Gravity feed motor 

Monoplane under construction

Early Whitehead motor

Whitehead bi-plane from 1906

Bi-plane under construction

Model of Number #21 in the GW Museum

Commemorative Stamp

Whitehead with motor