2007-11-05 17:53:17 · 15 answers · asked by Kiran R 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The first powered, controlled, sustained airplane flight was made by the Wright Brothers in 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
An airplane or aeroplane is a kind of aircraft, something that can fly, but is heavier than air. Airplanes are sometimes called just 'planes.
2007-11-05 17:55:55 · answer #1 · answered by J33-3 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Orville and Wilbur Wright of USA invented the aeroplane in 1903.
2007-11-06 03:08:55 · answer #2 · answered by Arasan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Wright Brothers.
Type "who invented the aeroplane" into Google and you will find the answer and a whole bunch of info about them.
2007-11-06 02:01:27 · answer #3 · answered by h4x0r 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Webster defines aeroplane (airplane) as " : a powered heavier-than-air aircraft that has fixed wings from which it derives most of its lift"
So although Lillenthal did glide before Wilbur and Oroville Wright, he was killed shortly before he was able to power his 'hang gliders'.
There were several others in Europe (Including Santos Dumont, a Brazilian) and one in New Zealand who were close, but the Wright Brothers are credited with the invention of the airplane, as they were the first to have a three axis controlled, heavier than air flight.
2007-11-06 03:26:50 · answer #4 · answered by Holden 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I know, for a lot of you the USA is the entire world - so it is understandable that you think that the aeroplane was invented in the USA by the Wright brothers. Yes, they were first to perform successfully a motor powered flight. But the German Otto Lilienthal was performing much longer flights than the Wright brothers in his heavier-than-air glider about 10 years before the Wright brothers took the air for a short hop.
Wilbur Wright wrote:
Of all the men who attacked the flying problem in the 19th century, Otto Lilienthal was easily the most important. ... It is true that attempts at gliding had been made hundreds of years before him, and that in the nineteenth century, Cayley, Spencer, Wenham, Mouillard, and many others were reported to have made feeble attempts to glide, but their failures were so complete that nothing of value resulted. But Otto Lilienthal succeeded in flight"
2007-11-06 02:22:38 · answer #5 · answered by Ernst S 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The first airplanes were invented by the wright brothers namely, Wilbur and Orville around 1900
2007-11-06 01:57:39 · answer #6 · answered by bernard_2393 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Wright Brothers
AND DID YOU KNOW...
The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the distance of the first flight made by the brothers??
I deserve 10 points for that.
2007-11-06 09:57:08 · answer #7 · answered by Fantastic68 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure who had the first idea of flight. That has been lost to history. Probably Adam and Eve. The first to achieve it were the Wright Brothers.
2007-11-06 01:56:37 · answer #8 · answered by Tony K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not sure who invented the aeroplane but I think the ancient greek Icarus designed the glider.
2007-11-06 06:35:45 · answer #9 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wright brothers
2007-11-06 01:55:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋