Wright Brothers' Early Flight, History of Aviation and Planes

This is a video of one of the earliest flights by the Wright Brothers, from the early 1900s. They just wanted to fly!
As George Bernard Shaw used to say: Some people see things as they are and say why. I see things that never were and say why not.
Please, forgive the quality and remember it has no sound.

UPDATE: Due to the debate emerging on this page regarding the Wright Brothers, here is an interesting Wikipedia link on the First Flying Machine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_flying_machine

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Education

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• history
• aviation
• airplanes
• wright
• brothers
• invention
• planes
• flight

[Verdelufe]

Everybody can denigrate Dumont, nobody can denigrate Wrights.

[kissingkilling]

@Verdelufe Please do not get angry over this. It's not about discrediting anyone's much respected achievement as humans so we could eventually ride a large machine into the skies. There were many great men and women who brought this invention into being. Some people out there don't even credit the American Wright brothers or Brazil's Santos-Dumont, go ask New Zealanders, they'll tell you it's Richard Pearse. The truth is, all of them contributed to the realization of this dream.

[Verdelufe]

I want everybody to know what happened to me: At video Wright Brothers First Flight & Wright Brothers First Flying Machine(PBS Nova) I was denied to continue posting my comments" Comments Pending Approval & Error Try Again" This is the powerful media with their Propaganda Machine telling where you should eat your grass, is this a free country or what.Can I like G.Curtiss & Europeans aviators and dislike the Wright Brothers. At you tube you can't complain.

[kissingkilling]

@Verdelufe Well, what was the comment you were trying to post that caused this trouble?

[CanterburyAtheists]

HISTORY LESSON: The first person to build and fly a heavier-than-air machine was the New Zealander Richard Pearce who flew 9 months before The Wright Brothers. The Wright Brothers were the first people to perform what is called ‘controlled’ flight. The first person to actual build & fly a mechanised plane was Richard Pearce.

[kissingkilling]

@CanterburyAtheists This debate over who deserves the credit with the first flying machine will never end. Of course, Richard Pearce could not and should not be reduced to a historical footnote, he's the pride of New Zealanders who was very much ahead of his time. (BTW I'm a kiwi too!)

[Treblaine]

I suppose accurately the Wright Brothers should be credited with "controlled flight". THAT was the most important achievement and ultimately what their patent was for.

The principals of flight were well established, but all the other designs had fundamentally unworkable principals of control. I suppose the only other major contribution to flight was Glenn Curtiss' use of Ailerons that could be scaled (unlike wing warping). Crutiss and Wright later formed Curtiss-Wright Corporation.

[Verdelufe]

@kissingkilling You did not get my point, I am not angry I was just trying to find out at Wright Brothers First Flight I just get, " Error try again " Can you block one ID name only to post any comment ? I know you can check the posting before releasing with " Comments Pending Approval" Understood.

[Verdelufe]

@Verdelufe I agree 100%, a flying machine was the result of many minds. Since the 1700's century with experiment with wind tunnel & airfoils and the contribution of 1000s of minds. There are 2 circles the Europeans and Americans brought up with 2 different conceptions. In U.S. Dumont is baloonist and wrist watch inventor, Europe Dumont is praised as the most recognized in aviation. Pearse too remote, Wrights with a picture,U.S. people don't like Dumont as the first with insignificant small hop.

[Verdelufe]

@kissingkilling See if you figure this out one of the Wrighters is below in this video BearFlight, I can not post back to him on our debate any more, any video I go it does not thru to him .He is a strong advocater of the Wrights, does he has anything to do with or not.

[Verdelufe]

@kissingkilling Thanks for your concern, I am trying to understand how the system works, we have no support whatsoever, I do not know who to reach, I do not used prophanity, but I show my point of view about pioneers of aviation by national pride each one go their own way for preference of aviators. U.S. never heared of Dumont, now is finding out thru internet. When they do they denigrate the man and I try to denigrate the Wrights they do not like, so I had SPAMS on my comments,erased but..