If the Wright Bros weren't the first inventors of the plane,?

Question

who was?
I heard there was a German somebody, and then even others.

Answer 1

You are correct, up to a point. There were a number of people prior to the Wright Bros. who attempted to do what the Wright Bros. were finally successful at - manned, controlled, powered flight. The Bros. attempted to apply the technology or theories/ideas that their predecessors put forth, but nothing they learned from these previous inventors worked, so the Bros. devised there own ideas. Including, flexible wing for control, twisting a small wing to create a propeller mounted on an appropriate engine of their choosing and also devised the first wind-tunnel to test their designs. In fact, the very basic design/concept of the wind-tunnel was invented by the Bros. and this basic design/concept is still used in today's wind-tunnels

As per those prior to the Wright Bros., any success they had with flying machines involved unpowered flight - gliders if you will. So, prior to the Wright Bros. flight was achieved, but not at the level of success of the Wright Bros.

One of these predecessors which I believe substantially influenced the Wright Bros. is Otto Lilienthal. I found a weblink I've included below about Lilienthal - perhaps he is the German you were thinking of.

Answer 2

all the Wights plane have been referred to as flyer's. decrease back in those days aviation became very primitive and records became infantile at perfect. First the Wrights started out with gliders. The designed the asymmetrical wing all of us comprehend and use on maximum plane on the instant (aside from some protection stress plane that have symmetrical wings). they then had to create an engine of their shed out contained in the desolate tract. as quickly as this became executed they created the plane that became to be the plane used contained in the 1st powered flight. in the initiating this went below a flyer variety yet became later renamed to the Wright Flyer.

Answer 3

There were several inventors in France and Germany that were working on similar craft, but Orville and Wilbur Wright are creditied with the first manned flight of a heavier-than-air craft. The term "airplane" was coined later.

Answer 4

The Seller's family in Grahn, Kentucky very may well have been the first family to fly. Matthew Sellers in particular. A tragic accident involving someone working for or with them resulted in a decline of work on their part.

Answer 5

The Wright brothers were the first to fly.So technically yes.
But of course ,like in every invention ,there were others before them ,that took one step at a time.

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/WrBr/AirBib.html

Answer 6

Leonardo davincy 500 years ago he had the blueprints of manu inventions including the air planes, helicopters , on history chanel

Answer 7

Aliens

Answer 8

It was invented in Africa, brought over on the Passage and stolen by the godless white men.

Answer 9

http://www.weisskopf.de/history.htm

how about this guy, even earlier yet.

http://www.swmidirectory.org/First_in_Flight.html
I heard richard pearce also had a plane made before them by 8 months, heres the link
http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/pearse1.html

Answer 10

let me know when u find out