The History of Aviation, Part 1 of 6

From fantasy to WW1

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Science & Technology

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• Flight
• Aviation

[eduvc123]

"Santos-Dumont made the first public European flight of an airplane in Paris on October 23, 1906. That aircraft, designated 14-bis or Oiseau de proie (French for "bird of prey"), was the first to take off, fly, and land without the use of catapults, high winds, launch rails, or other external assistance."

and I say again no other external assistance...

[cavalier080854]

You are right about the unassisted flight, the Wrights could claim to be pioneers of flight because they were the first to be filmed as proof. But others have also claimed to be first. Karl Jatho(August 1903), Richard Pearse(New Zealand, March 1903) also Clement Ader in a steam engined bat winged monoplane in 1890! Would love to see that last one fly even though it flew for only 60 yards.

[glup2glup]

LOL; americans say they are the first for anything. "Aviation was born in america"????

Did they forget Clement Ader?, Santos Dumont?

Aviation was born in France

[Bullettube]

You're correct but, the Wrights first used a catapult contraption to get their plane in the air. This was still better then taking off downhill as Lilenthal and others were doing, or being towed behind a team of horses! The Wrights had the advantage, because as you say, they had a "system", which included a very light motor that they designed.

[RJLorran]

The farce of the wright brother

[lebronchuck]

Even if the 1903''s flight of the Wright brothers never happened, there's still a LOT of evidence ointing that they were already flying in front of a lot of people in front of many people and the news media. Heck! They even made a 40 minutes-long flight on 1905, while at the same time Europeans (and one Brazilian....) were still barely making little jumps....

My respect to Dumont, he truly was the first South American to fly a plane, but NOT the first man.

[MrRobertGulabo]

Wright brothers may have been the icons of flight... but anyone notice how they were invited to Europe after being ignored at home??? Since the dawn of time, this country has always been awash with talent... but somehow always manages to squander its own resources by ignorance and neglect. From the do nothing congress that almost cost George Washington the war for independence, to the exile of Charlie Chaplin... we've spit on truly talented people and then hug them after they succeeded.

[pradobsb]

Congratulations Alberto Santos Dumont, The Inventor.

[JudgeGrif]

@eduvc123 The Wright Brothers invented TRUE FLIGHT! Santo-Dumont just GLIDED.

TRUE FLIGHT means "SUSTAINED" (60 minutes or more ) and "CONTROLLED" (you can TURN and make your plane CIRCLE).

Santos-Dumont did NIETHER.

Calling a glider an airplane is misleading!

[JudgeGrif]

@glup2glup Europeans just GLIDED. Americans FLEW!

No Anti-American idiot like you can even understand the difference!

TRUE FLIGHT means "SUSTAINED" (60 minutes or more ) and "CONTROLLED" (you can TURN and make your plane CIRCLE).

[cultofmao]

Rubbish Gustav Albin Weisskopf was first its just American Propaganda.

[ANUSDESTR0YER]

@eduvc123 No. 14bis was incapable of turning