This might be of interest to someone: http://activity-holidays.visitwales.co.uk/15/yanks-steal-man-fly-welsh/ "In fact, it was a Welshman Bill Frost, who was the first man to patent the aeroplane in 1894, and not Orville and Wilbur Wright who most believe made the first powered flight by a heavier-than-air aircraft." Bill Frost lived in Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire. Alison