The first airplane - 14 bis.

The flight of first airplane ever.

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[TiconofubaKKK]

Father Santos Dumont aviation *****

[Maracangaia1]

Who invented the television? Who invented the internet?

Almost every invention is collective. The Wright brothers contributed much to aviation and aircraft control, as well as Santos Dumond.

The Writghts build a glider and put an engine. When the glider became autoproper is uncertain. Otto Lilienthal had done 2000 controllable glider flights between 1891 and 1896.

Dumond has shown that you can take off without launchers or track.

They, like many others, are heroes of aviation.

[fxmcloud]

We Brazilians understand, The airplane is the most invention of the world, so no wonder by the desperation of American authorship...

[BearFlight]

@BARUNIZ Actually, my facts are correct my friend. Santos Dumont, of all the active members of the ACdeF during the years 1905 through 1910, was the least active and the least successful. The first "actual" flight of an airplane, as we know them today occurred on 8Aug1908 at LeMans, France with Wilbur Wright at the controls of his Flyer III "A". 3 Weeks following his brother, Orville started with the 2nd Flyer III "A" over in the USA. Dumont's 1st first flight was on 13Feb1910.

[BARUNIZ]

@BearFlight Stop commenting. Get the facts right before looking like a patriot freak.

[marcelocasarin]

Com catapulta até pedra voa!!! Santos Dumont Pai da aviação!!

[luisc4444]

@liamtobyaus "I didn't give him a capital because he doesn't deserve it" what a sadly immature way of trying to disparage. Grow up a little?

[BearFlight]

@Maracangaia1 My statements concerning the Wright brothers is NOT one of personal opinion or anything of the sort. It is an ABSOLUTE proveable certainty, end of story. Everything the Wrights did, as engineers, was well documented and duly registered with a variety of scientific organizations. Their US Patent #821,393 issued on 22May1906 was and is the "Grandfather" patent for the airplane (soaring or dynamic).

[BearFlight]

@Maracangaia1 What you may not know or realize, but the Wrights worked in private (not secret) to protect their technology nothing more. There had been a number of individuals that had gotten airborne for a short distance before them, but until 8Aug1908, no one in Europe had ever seen someone takeoff and actually "fly" in a machine that was under the full control of the operator, until Wilbur did that day at LeMans, France.

[BearFlight]

@Maracangaia1 You make a good point about "who" invented the television or "who" invented the internet, but that doesn't apply to the airplane. Who was the original developers of the technology for accurately predicting airfoil performance and perfecting the concept of "Inherent Instability" allowing others to design successful flyable airplanes is very clear and precise and without question the Wrights. They developed ALL of the most important base line technology almost entirely on their own.