French, too. And quite honestly, aviation pioneers were not localized in one country. You can dream to fly anywhere, and you can find crazies who try anywhere also.
No_Bluebird_1368 on
I hope someone makes a version of this where it keeps going on for a stupidly long amount of time.
Creative-Cell-8926 on
Actually it was Shivkar Bapuji Talpade from India who built the first aircraft. Just adding,because everyone is throwing in their hat.
Forsaken-Peak8496 on
Man they Soviets really claim to invent a lot of stuff, including the lightbulb
Primary-Long4416 on
Is Albrecht Ludwig Berblinger a joke to you?
BasedAustralhungary on
Wasn’t Ahmed Çelebi a well documented fact… considering ofc he didn’t fly, but glided. Iirc he jumped out of a tower and managed to “fly” (glide) and survive
SirMemesworthTheDank on
Don’t they know that turkey invented everything?
ResponsibleBanana522 on
An indian and an Australian too
ConsistentEnviroment on
We don’t say that he flew the first airplane, just that he flew with a glider from Galata tower. Some say he flew over Bosphorus to Ãœsküdar but I think a shorter distance is much more likely.
_Rowdy_Raider_ on
China invented everything, it’s just bad because why fix what most of your people won’t use…since ancient times – Xi Xing Ping-pong
ImASimpMagnet on
Celebi?
Dmannmann on
Hey! Indias got one too!
StevieMJH on
If you had swapped the colors between blue and red in the last panel it would have blown my mind.
nikschn on
wasn’t there also some japanese guy who made something and then got arrested for disturbing peace?
blacksmith_jr_1 on
Let me know when this meme get to wan hu
cnawan on
Richard Pearse in New Zealand is a contender too. Seems like lots of people at the time realised the technology was possible.
Mountain_Dentist5074 on
That claim was first person did fly not plane
Straight_Shallot4131 on
There are 2 Arab people on Abbasids time who tried it btw
_sivizius on
Santos Dumont: engine-powered but not heavier-than-air.
Alexander Mozhaysky: engine-powered, heavier-than-air, most likely unsuccessful.
Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi: neither engine-powered nor plausible
Otto Lilienthal: heavier-than-air, but not engine-powered
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French, too. And quite honestly, aviation pioneers were not localized in one country. You can dream to fly anywhere, and you can find crazies who try anywhere also.
I hope someone makes a version of this where it keeps going on for a stupidly long amount of time.
Actually it was Shivkar Bapuji Talpade from India who built the first aircraft. Just adding,because everyone is throwing in their hat.
Man they Soviets really claim to invent a lot of stuff, including the lightbulb
Is Albrecht Ludwig Berblinger a joke to you?
Wasn’t Ahmed Çelebi a well documented fact… considering ofc he didn’t fly, but glided. Iirc he jumped out of a tower and managed to “fly” (glide) and survive
Don’t they know that turkey invented everything?
An indian and an Australian too
We don’t say that he flew the first airplane, just that he flew with a glider from Galata tower. Some say he flew over Bosphorus to Ãœsküdar but I think a shorter distance is much more likely.
China invented everything, it’s just bad because why fix what most of your people won’t use…since ancient times – Xi Xing Ping-pong
Celebi?
Hey! Indias got one too!
If you had swapped the colors between blue and red in the last panel it would have blown my mind.
wasn’t there also some japanese guy who made something and then got arrested for disturbing peace?
Let me know when this meme get to wan hu
Richard Pearse in New Zealand is a contender too. Seems like lots of people at the time realised the technology was possible.
That claim was first person did fly not plane
There are 2 Arab people on Abbasids time who tried it btw
Santos Dumont: engine-powered but not heavier-than-air.
Alexander Mozhaysky: engine-powered, heavier-than-air, most likely unsuccessful.
Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi: neither engine-powered nor plausible
Otto Lilienthal: heavier-than-air, but not engine-powered
Wright Brothers: engine-powered, heavier-than-air