Who invented the plane?

The “Wright” Brothers
Orville: 1871-1948
Wilbur: 1867-1912

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The dream of flight goes back to the days of pre-history. Many stories from antiquity involve flight, such as the legend of Icarus. Leonardo da Vinci drew an aircraft in the 15th century. With the first flight made by man (Francois Pilatre de Rozier and Francois d’Arlandes) in an aircraft lighter than air, a balloon, the biggest challenge became to create other craft, capable of controlled flight.

First attempts

In 1853, Englishman George Cayley made the first manned glider flight. In 1856, Frenchman Jean-Marie Le Bris made the first powered flight, by having his glider “L’Albatros artificiel” pulled by a horse on a beach. On 28 August 1883, the American John J. Montgomery made a controlled flight in a glider. Other aviators who had made similar flights at that time were Otto Lilienthal, Percy Pilcher and Octave Chanute.

Sir George Cayley, the inventor of the science of aerodynamics, was building and flying models of fixed-wing aircraft as early as 1803, and he built a successful passenger-carrying glider in 1853. Self-powered aircraft were designed and constructed by Clément Ader. On October 9, 1890, Ader attempted to fly the Éole, which succeeded in taking off and flying a distance of approximately 50 meters before witnesses. In August 1892 the Avion II flew for a distance of 200 metres, and on October 14, 1897, Avion III flew a distance of more than 300 metres.

On August 28, 1903 in Hanover, the German Karl Jatho made his first flight.

The Wright Brothers are commonly credited with the invention of the aircraft, but like Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone, theirs was rather the first sustainable and well documented attempt. They made their first successful test flights on December 17, 1903 and by 1905 Flyer III was capable of fully controllable, stable flight for substantial periods. Strictly speaking, the Flyer’s wings were not completely fixed, as it depended for stability on a flexing mechanism named wing warping. This was later superseded by the development of ailerons, devices which performed a similar function but were attached to an otherwise rigid wing.

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The Wright Brothers didnt actually invented the plane, its one of those Filipino guys who had to sell their ideas to those brothers for them to eat more like the yeah wright brothers…. dont read those fucking lying books ^_^

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In the Smithsonian Institute there is a sealed chest that is part of the estate of the Wright Brothers. Inside are the documents that prove that they purchased the original Wright Flyer, from a farmer in Ohio, who had thrilled the neighbors with over a dozen flights.

But, in spite of earlier successes in Europe, the Wright Brothers are credited with the discovery, which once again proves the power of media advertising and influence upon our beliefs, and our recorded history!

Actually, there are amulets recovered from Mayan wells, of delta jet aircraft, and, the Vitsayama Gita, the Vistsayama Sita are technical manuals for maintenance of modern turbine engined interceptors, and dog fighting techniques for fighter pilots of the same.

According to a committee of Indian Scientists who are versed in the ancient language, and instead of chanting it, actually read the books as stories, and were surprised by their discoveries!

Most peoples of the world have the Boomarang, even the American Natives! But all are credited with the invention of the Atlatl, instead!

The Boomerang involves complex theories and applications of flight engineering! No one has explained the drawings that are only seen from air, in Brittain, France, the Americas!

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well who invented the “plane” depends on what you consider a plane. way before the wright brothers there were gliders that made short flights. and even “planes” that took off from the ground under their own power. The first controled, sustained flight was made by the Wright brothers. They made the biggest advances in things like airfoils, propellers, and lighter weight engines.

I think that Otto Lilienthal, who made the first controlled flight of 230 meters in his glider, was the first man to fly.

but becasue the right brother made a sustained/controlled lfight W/ and engine, i think that hey inveted the airplane.

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AS Americans prepare to celebrate the centennial of the Wright brothers’ first flight, a whole country is cringing at what it believes to be a historical injustice against one of its most beloved heroes.

Ask anyone in Brazil who invented the aeroplane and they will say Alberto Santos-Dumont, a 5-foot 4-inch (1.6 metre) bon vivant who was as well known for his aerial prowess as he was for his dandyish dress and high society life in Belle Epoque Paris.

As Paul Hoffman recounts in his Santos-Dumont biography “Wings of Madness”, the eccentric Brazilian was the first and only person to own a personal flying machine that could take him just about anywhere he wanted to go.

“He would keep his dirigible tied to a gas lamp post in front of his Paris apartment at the Champs-Elysees and every night he would fly to Maxim’s for dinner. During the day he’d fly to go shopping, he’d fly to visit friends,” Hoffman said.

An idealist who believed flight was spiritually soothing, Santos-Dumont financed his lavish lifestyle and aerial experiments in Paris with the inheritance his coffee-farming father had advanced him as a young man. Always impeccably dressed, he regularly took a gourmet lunch with him on his ballooning expeditions.

It was on November 12, 1906, that Santos-Dumont flew a kite-like contraption with boxy wings called the 14-Bis some 722 feet (220 metres) on the outskirts of Paris. It being the first public flight in the world, he was hailed as the inventor of the aeroplane all over Europe.

It was only later that the secretive Orville and Wilbur Wright proved they had beaten Santos-Dumont at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, three years earlier on December 17.

But to bring up the Wright brothers with a Brazilian is bound to elicit an avalanche of arguments – some more reasonable than others – as to why their compatriot’s flight didn’t count.

“It’s one of the biggest frauds in history,” scoffs Wagner Diogo, a taxi driver in Rio de Janeiro, of the Wrights’ inaugural flight. “No one saw it, and they used a catapult to launch” the airplane.

http://app1.chinadaily.com.cn/star/2003/1218/fe22-1.html

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