North Carolina has become too involved and wants to maintain this status at all costs.
The US state of Connecticut introduced a memorial day for Gustav Weißkopf in June 2013 and gave him priority for the first powered flight by law. In addition, we know at least since the gliders in MSFS that this was where aviation began, and Otto Lilienthal is therefore considered the first person to successfully and repeatedly perform gliding flights with an aircraft.
