the first flight of an aircraft was at?

Answer 1

uhh...it`s hard to say. Around 1900 there were a lot of men that where trying to fly gliders. Powered by engines airplanes appeared around 1903. The first were brothers Wright in America. But they were not using just the engine. They also had a lunching rail. The first who managed to take off only with the help of an engine was a gent from Romania, Traian Vuia. He was the first to built an aircraft with tires. He also designed an aircraft engine (because at that time engines were too heavy for their power) and in 1906 took off and flew for about 12 m at an altitude of 1 m and then landed safely.
There are a lot of "aircraft first flight". It depends on what do you mean by that. But considering what we understand today by the meaning of "aircraft" , the answer to your question would be: On March the 18th 1906 Traian Vuia, a romanian young man, flew a true airplane somewhere in Paris for the first time.

Answer 2

Are we talking about an airplane or just an aircraft?? It you are asking about an aircraft then the answer is the Avitor Hermes Jr. which flew in Burlingame CA. in 1869. This was the first vehicle to fly under 3 axis control. It was a blimp shaped aircraft with short wings and a vertical/horizontal stabilizer combination. It was powered by a 1 HP. alcohol fueled steam engine. Part of the lift was provided by Hydrogen gas. The control was provided by men on the ground moving the controls via attached ropes. It flew over a mile at an altitude of 25 feet. It was destroyed when a spark from the engine set the hydrogen filled bag on fire.
There is a 45 ft. model of this A/C on display at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos CA.

Answer 3

You people also forgot the first hot air balloon flight in the 1700's. The first "fixed wing aircraft" was at Kitty Hawk. People always get the first flight and the first fixed wing aircraft mixed up. There has been many previous flights before the Wright Bros., but all were simply gliders or a hot air balloon.

Answer 4

I know it was "Not" at "Kitty Hawk", or was that the plane?
It hard to say, it may have been China very long ago. B.C.? Possibly.

OK, I take you on a brief History, READ, what this says and I Very Well Highlight something of the Wright Brothers. Read!!!!

The first form of aircraft made was the kite, about the 5th century bc.
Jean Marie Le Bris (1817–72), who tested a glider with movable wings
Otto Lilienthal, of Germany. Lilienthal’s experiments with aircraft, including kites and ornithopters, attained greatest success with his glider flights in 1894–96.
Lawrence Hargrave invented the box kite in 1893 and Alexander Graham Bell developed huge human-carrying tetrahedral-celled kites between 1895 and 1910.
On Dec. 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, N.C., the brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright made the world’s first successful flights in a <<<<"heavier-than-air craft under power and control">>>>.

So, for your question; the first flight of an aircraft was 5 B.C., but, as to "Where" I can not say truthfully, I keep thinking it was the Chinese, but, I can not promise.

Answer 5

Aircraft is the key word here. A balloon is an airship (I believe) not an Aircraft. The Wright's just performed the first powered flight which was controllable (more or less).
Unfortunately I don't know the answer to your question

Answer 6

well if your talking about the first controled flight of a powered aircraft then that was at Kitty hawk North Carolina by the Wright brothers.

Answer 7

First free flight: 21 November 1783. First free flight of a hot air balloon with people on board.

Powered free flight: 1852. Giffard airship.

Heavier than air free flight (controlled) 1891, Otto Lilienthal's hang glider.

Powered heavier than air free flight (marginally controlled): Wright Flyer, Dec 17, 1903.

Answer 8

Here in America we are taught that Orville Wright was the "first in flight". In actuality should be modified as "first in POWER flight."

The French was the first MANNED flight (glider) - before the Americans. The wright brothers made many other advances (including the invention of flight controlls).

Like anything in this world, things are invented in little steps. Proper people / countrys needs to be given their credit.

Answer 9

Orville Wright took off on the 17th December 1903 on the Outer Banks of North Carolina

Answer 10

the term "aircraft" is simply too subjective. if it's to include rocket powered flight, then you'd have to consider chinese fireworks. if you're speaking of "motorized" flight, then the answer would be kitty hawk n.c.