Peck's Flying Machine Crashes is one of the newspaper articles in Red Dead Redemption 2.
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THE IMPROVED APPARATUS LESS SUCCESSFUL THAN ORIGINAL.
Professor Cecil H. Peck, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, has worked tirelessly for several years on a steam-powered flying machine to be used for war purposes. The Aerodrome, as he named it, is unmanned and launches from the top of a houseboat by catapult. His earlier experiments met with a certain degree of success, flying briefly before crashing. His newer model buckled upon launch and fell into the river.
He was given $25,000 for the project. His experiments have inspired many science minded lads. Professor Peck says the Smithsonian recently received a detailed letter from the Wright Cycle Company, a bicycle manufacturing outfit from Ohio that requested publications about aeronautics, planning experiments of their own.