Trevor

on Windows 7?

It has always been claimed that the wright Brothers were the first to achieve a flight in an heavier than air craft, but I beg to differ. It is not widely known that they used a catapult to launch their Flyer 1 into flight in north Carolina in December 1903, but it didn't take off or land under the power of its own engine, which failed to meet the definition of "Sustained controlled flight"

Using the same method to launch an aircraft of Felix De Temple, a French man, was granted a patent for a flying machine in 1857, and had a working model by 1874. This aircraft flew short distances by being launched from a ramp.

French inventor,Clement Ader ( who also invented Sterio Sound recording ) flew a Delta Winged Plane over 600 feet in 1892, and after modifications, he flew it just over 600 ffet in1892. This was eleven years before the Wright Brothers flew their Plane.

THis flight was seen by many people and was also reported in the newspapers.

Then we have Gustave Whithead, who flew a petrol powered Aeroplane on August 14th, 1901 in Fairfield Connecticut, months before the Wright Brothers.A 1901 newspaper account telling the story is the only source that mentions the flight.

So, what did the Wright Brothers have that all these others didn't? They had a new invention called, a film camera to record it. It is as simple as that. Their first clumsy flights are captured as moving pictures. Would you now say that history is wrong ????

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