Amos I. Root, the man who saw a plane flying on Sep. 20, 1904!
I know that few people have heard about Amos Ives Root of Medina, but this owner of a factory for beekeeping supplies was the witness of a flight performed in a circuit with a heavier-than-air machine that carried a man. The event happened on September 20, 1904.
Root owned a periodical and was also a person who wished to get a place in the history of aviation believing that the effort of reminding repeatedly his readers, he had witnessed the first circular flight ever performed by a airplane, would make his account more credible and finally his story would become an accepted truth.
Fortunately, the true face of A. I. Root is revealed by his letters and articles you can read in the free book that can be downloaded from one of the following addresses:
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