As far as I know the bird is still grounded, but the man, Richard Pearse, may have flown before the Wright brothers did. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...594&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154
Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings man) did a very clever mockumentary partially based on finding film of Pearse flying called Forgotten Silver. It's a fairly ruthless satire of our national obsessions. You can get it on video and DVD, I believe, even in the US or Canada.