A half scale model of Gustave Whitehead's Airplane #21, which the Bridgeport Herald reported flew at Tunxis Hill in Fairfield on August 14, 1901, two years before the Wright brothers famous Kitty Hawk flight, hangs in the lobby of the Discovery Museum in Fairfield on Sunday, August 14, 2011.obody is mustering the militia just yet, but it is expected that the Ohio legislature will pass a measure in early 2015 declaring that Gustave Whitehead did not fly a powered, heavier-than-air machine of his own design on August 14, 1901, or on any other date..