While most of the world says the wright brothers flew the first plane in 1903, Brazilians claim it was Santos-Dumont who flew be 14-bis in 1906, however later the soviets claimed it was Alexander Mozhaysky in the 1880’s, saying his plane had a ramp-assisted hops during testing.
by Rare-Collection4467
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You just invited Brazilians, horrible mistake, may God have mercy on your soul.
That’s cute. Go to the Balkans and ask who invented what. You will have a whole new undestanding of history 😀
I’m surprised the Chinese haven’t tried to claim they invented flight. They claim to have invented everything from vaccines to soccer.
New Zealand has a claim with Richard Peirce who some claim did it in 1902
Jokes aside we all know the true inventor was Kim Jong Il after he finished making the first Burrito and scoring 11 holes-in-one in golf.
We all know it was Otto Lilienthal, right?
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lilienthal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lilienthal)
Wasn’t it a kiwi?
and I invented reddit. let that live in the history books
Better than whatever the Indian ministers seem to be smoking
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhopal/long-before-wright-bros-plane-we-had-pushpak-vimana-shivraj/articleshow/123511626.cms
The recent right wing ultra nationalistic government of India wants to claim everything from planes to plastic surgery to nuclear weapons as being invented in India in the BCs.
Paper Skies has a great quote about Soviet History requiring a Men in Black Nerolizer to believe and comprehend
Their usual narrative as a russian inventor invented something first but didn’t patent it, so someone else invented it later, patented it and became unfairly famous
Whats the soviet claim?
Actually it was Clément Ader:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ader_%C3%89ole
It was Gustave Whitehead – if we want to talk not true, but interesting claims.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Whitehead
The funny thing is that in any case the claim of the invention is kinda arbitrary.
Functional gliders have been invented at many times and in many parts of the world. During the middle ages there were records from both Arabia and Germany outlining such basic machines, plus other places I can’t remember right now. Da Vinci outlined several ideas for flying machines, among them the early concept of a helicopter, he just didn’t have the materials needed to build such a thing during his time.
What the Wright brothers did was for the first time to slap a functioning motor onto such a glider. So really their invention must always be qualified that it was *powered* flight, not flight *in general* (a distinction often ignored by some US Americans)
No Gustav Weißkopf?
[Actually it was an Indian, so Americans and Brazilians can suck on these ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivkar_Bapuji_Talpade) 😼
I probably shouldn’t bring up Richard Pearse, but he beat the Wrights by 9 months…