Before the Wright brothers, a Black inventor named Charles F. Page designed and patented an airship capable of powered flight. Page was formerly enslaved. He spent years studying flight mechanics and used his life savings to build a full scale model meant for a major exhibition. The model never arrived. His design was allegedly stolen, and he never received credit or protection for his work. Today, Charles F. Page is rarely mentioned in aviation history. Not because he wasn’t brilliant. But beca
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Before the Wright brothers, a Black inventor named Charles F. Page designed and patented an airship capable of powered flight. Page was formerly enslaved. He spent years studying flight mechanics and used his life savings to build a full scale model meant for a major exhibition. The model never arrived. His design was allegedly stolen, and he never received credit or protection for his work. Today, Charles F. Page is rarely mentioned in aviation history. Not because he wasn’t brilliant. But beca
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Inscription: Charles Frederick Page (1864-1937), likely born enslaved in Rapides Parish. sometime around the early 1900s created and built his own unique design of a flyable airship. a predecessor of our modern airplane, at his two-story home located in Pineville. In 1904, he shipped his creation to the 1904 Louisiana Purchase World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri to be exhibited there, and where he may have also planned to compete in the international aeronautic competition. But his airship never
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