Who Really Invented The Airplane? The Century-Old Debate Still Divides The Skies | World News

New Delhi: Ask anyone who built the first plane, they will tell you – Wright Brothers. But scraping a little deeper; The story is not that simple. The continents, cultures and claims have not been said in the last hundred years and often a physical violence.

The conquest and flight of Oville and Wilbur Wright, a self -taught architects and bicycle mechanics in the United States, in 1903 planes, are proud.

But in Brazil, a name usually emerges-Alberto Santos-Dumont. Santos-Dumont is a member of a family of surrounding coffee. In 1906, the Machine (14-Bis) Paris people in front of the crowd and received an international recognition by the International Aviation Federation. This is where the story is divided.

Fly before the eyes of the world

In the early 1900s, it was full of dreamers competing to build a machine that could not fly with engines and wings, not with balloons. Paris became the heart of this dream. Engineers, investors and inventors flocked to the French capital. The city had money, metal, minds and acceleration.

Santos-Dumont rose rightly. On November 12, 1906, he flew 220 meters before hundreds of witnesses. No cheat. No launch rails. Just a man, a machine and a moment.

A year later he introduced another plane – Demoiselle. It was one of the first aircraft built for light, fast and mass production.

The late claim of the Wright brothers

In 1908, Wright Brothers came to the fore and claimed that in 1903, North Carolina flew five years ago on a quiet December morning near Kitty Hawk.

Very few saw. Only five people. Evidence? A telegram, a few blurred photos and the diary of Orville.

French aviation circles were stunned. They had never heard of Wright’s public flight before that. Letters between American and European flight clubs were regulated, but for years there was no promise of a breakthrough from Wrights.

The brothers announced that they were waiting for a patent. They were afraid of theft. But until then the doubt had come in. At Kitty Hawk, the wind was reported to explode at 40 kilometers per hour that day – strong enough to lift a glider without a motor.

Wrights supporters did not agree. By 1904 and 1905, the brothers argued that they had already developed very superior brochures. It can bank, turn and sustain the machines long flights – that no one else can reach.

Tom Crouch, a historian who spent a lifetime by examining his brothers, clearly demonstrates him – Wrights knew in 1903 that cold morning, the electric flight was known.

But they chose privacy. Until 1908, they continued to move away from the eyes of the people until they finally stepped into the European scene.

And when they did, he changed everything. They flew before the packaged crowd. They made more than 200 flights in France and Italy. In a show, Wilbur flew 124 kilometers without landing.

The European Royal Family was lined up for the chance to fly with them.

At this point, even French aviation pioneers like Ferdinand Ferber admitted that they were not flute. This control level did not happen overnight.

Mancinık Discussion

However, a controversial issue remained. Wrights launched brochures on a catapult with a mechanism that throws the plane into the air. European critics said it means that the plane lacks the power to get up. The supporters opposed that the catapult was not a crutches, but a tool.

Nevertheless, Santos-Dumont did not need such help. His plane got up from the wheels in front of a vibrant crowd and from his own power.

And the debate deepened.

Forgotten brochures

In this duel, there were many people who might have been tried before or at least.

Gustav Weißkopf (or Whitehead), a German living in the United States, is allegedly flying early in the United States. Some of them point to Richard Pearse in New Zealand, with their October 1903 flight or previous March 1903 flight. Previously, in 1871, South African John Goodman reportedly made his first manned glider flight decades after Kitty Hawk.

Previously, in 1871, a South African man named John Goodman reportedly launched the first manned glider flight decades after Kitty Hawk. A monument is still standing next to the site in Howick.

Therefore, many aviation historians refuse to crown any “inventor”.

Paul Jackson, who has been organizing Jane’s All World The World for 25 years, says that the race for the sky has not been won by a lonely genius. It was the result of tireless and collective effort.

“Nobody woke up one day, drew a plane and flew. Hundreds of minds, dozens of failures and determination for years,” he says.

Recognition or deficiency

Jackson believes that Santos-Dumont, Whitehead and others never take their time.

He does not break his words, “Finally, those with the best lawyers remembered.”

History usually rewards the wrong people. Alexander Graham Bell, who is famous for inventing the phone, points to Graham Bell. However, in 2002, the US Congress admitted that Antonio Meucci, a poor Italian who shared a workshop with the real inventor Bell.

Marcia Cummings, a descendant of the aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss, runs a blog that reveals the buried facts of the early flight. Wrights once led Curtiss to court in 1909 for a patent violation.

He believes that Wrights is trying to erase rivals like Curtiss.

But Orville and Wilbur’s great grandson Amanda Wright Lane doesn’t buy it. He spent years to protect his legacy and says that the brothers just want credit for their acquisition – nothing else, nothing less.

“I knew Orville.

And real?

The truth can never go on a runway.

The plane was not born in one place. It has been shaped for decades in stables, backyards and crowded laboratories.

After all, the sky has many stories.