Actor Cliff Robertson signals success after he test-piloted a replica of an airplane challenging the Wright brothers' status as the first to fly on Friday morning, July 11, 1986 in a tethered test flight at Sikorsky Memorial Airport in Stratford, Conn. The aircraft, in the test flight, rose off the trailer while being towed. Its builders want to prove that Gustave Whitehead a Connecticut Aviation pioneer, flew in 1901. AP Photo Photo: Journal Register Co.