Hi, this has become a fairly popular question in this sub. Not discouraging more responses here, but check out these threads for previous discussion on the early development of flight

• Who invented the airplane?

• Who really did invent aviation, Santos-Dumont or the Wright brothers?

• The First Flight: Wright Flyer vs. 14-Bis [Aviation History]

• Is there any merit to the claim that Gustave Whitehead, not the Wright Brothers, was the first to fly a heavier-than-air aircraft?

• comments in AMA We’re curators of early flight from the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum who have studied and written about the Wright brothers and their aircraft for decades. Ask us anything!

• Could someone make a good historical argument on why the wright brothers invented the airplanes before anyione else?

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