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Russians Claim Early Aircraft Flight Premise
Moscow reports that Komsomolskaya Pravda claims a Russian monoplane with three steam engines flew 21 years before the Wright brothers. The piece notes academy scientists in Leningrad and discussions of engines, coal, electricity, and aviation concepts amid a retrospective on early aviation claims.
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