so /int/ who invented the airplane ?
brazilian people claim was some hue hue faggit
american claims was some faggit bros
so who got their first shit out of ground?
The Wright brothers in 1903, the monkey in 1906.
Russia is not involved.
>>52811049
>using a catapult to fly
>>52811049
And the french in 1900.
Poland
>>52811393
Yes.
>>52811310
and? It's powered flight. Deal with it.
>>52811417
who
The ancient Slovak Kings
>>52811454
no it isnt. it fucking needed a 700 kg catapult to fly. Meanwhile Santos Dumont airplane needed nothing to the point he showed it to the world in France
>>52811820
It is commonly claimed that the Wright brothers invented aircraft, however, it has also been claimed that Santos Dumont did. Who invented the first aircraft?
They barely even flew, while Dumont made a prototype airplane.
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>The Wright flyer first flew in 1903. Santos-Dumont didn't even start working on airplanes until 1905.
>The only reason that there is any confusion on this is because of the rules set out byFédération Aéronautique Internationale, which was started in Paris in 1905, two years after the Wright brothers' flight. They decided to include in their rules that the plane had to take off without assistance. The Wrights designed their plane to land on skids instead of wheels. Since it didn't have wheels, they would set their plane on a dolly on a track. FAI decided this didn't count, and said that Santos-Dumont's flight of the 14-bis in 1906 was the first, since it had wheels and didn't use a track to take off. This is one of a few cases where the generally accepted record holder is not the same as the name the FAI claimed. Another example of this is that the FAI didn't initially accept Yuri Gagarin as the first man in space because he ejected before his spacecraft landed. In both of these cases, the FAI did eventually come around and acknowledge the Wright brothers and Gagarin for their accomplishments.
>>52811820
Cool, but the wright brothers were still the first to fly a self powered heavier than air aircraft. This is acknowledged by literally everyone, including the skeptics at the time.
The Wright brothers "airplane" couldn't even lift off, it had to be catapulted into the air so it could glide.
They literally invented a hang glider with a seat.
A little over 50 years later after the Wright Brothers first flew the USA was building jets that could fly at nearly Mach 7 at an altitude of 354,000 feet.
It's 2015 and Brazil is still trying to figure out how to build a proper jet engine.
Does it matter who flew first ?
>>52811975
>the FAI didn't initially accept Yuri Gagarin as the first man in space because he ejected before his spacecraft landed
