Author Topic: Who you think that invented the first plane? (Read 998 times)

Henrique Jitsu · « **on:** December 11, 2005, 05:12:44 PM »

Hi.

I just would like to know your opinion:
Who invented the airplane?

Alberto Santos Dummont or The Wright Brothers?

The Wright brothers for me is more one of the american myths.Many smart people and specialist said that their airplane would never fly and tried many times to build their airplane but it didnt even raise its nose.

Now, Santos Dummont , a real genious, the inventor of the shower, the inventor of that thing that looks like a baloon which became famous after the Zeppelin incident, brazilian, which house is now a museum with dozens of revolutionary inventions and the real inventor of the airplane who flew in paris the 14-BIS, the first self powered machine that left ground by 7 seconds wich was filmed and the film still exists and you can watch it is to me (and to god) the real inventor of the plane and the father of aviation

Mime · « **Reply #1 on:** December 11, 2005, 05:18:08 PM »

al gore

Mark Luper · « **Reply #2 on:** December 11, 2005, 05:23:57 PM »

Henrique,

Ésta discusão irá continuar até o fim de tempo como nós conhecemos. Eu não estáva lá e não sei. Pareçe que Santos Dumont poderia ter sido o primeiro mas não sei por certeza.

Abraços,

Marcos (tambem conhecido como MarkAT)

Estes · « **Reply #3 on:** December 11, 2005, 05:24:21 PM »

Davinci is probably the first to draw plans and such for an airplane. As for actually inventing, and building a plane. Wright Brothers.

However, there is a theory that as Mime brought up. That Al Gore invented a time machine, traveled back in time and invented the airplane.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 11, 2005, 05:26:51 PM »

I invented the Time Machine. However, I just haven't built it yet.

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #5 on:** December 11, 2005, 05:31:11 PM »

I invented the first plane I straped cardboard to my back and jumped of my roof I just didn't invent landing gear:(

This is true

Henrique Jitsu · « **Reply #6 on:** December 11, 2005, 05:33:59 PM »

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Originally posted by Estes
Davinci is probably the first to draw plans and such for an airplane. As for actually inventing, and building a plane. Wright Brothers.

However, there is a theory that as Mime brought up. That Al Gore invented a time machine, traveled back in time and invented the airplane.

Davinci drawed a helicopter,not a plane...

Who is Al Gore?Isn't him a politician?

Gunslinger · « **Reply #7 on:** December 11, 2005, 05:35:15 PM »

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The Wright brothers for me is more one of the american myths.Many smart people and specialist said that their airplane would never fly and tried many times to build their airplane but it didnt even raise its nose.

Many people also said the world was flat and the sun revovled around it. There plane did fly, they even got it on film. There subsaquent write flyers flew pretty darn well compared to their first one.

CyranoAH · « **Reply #8 on:** December 11, 2005, 05:43:51 PM »

What about Otto Lilienthal? Not powered flight, but he did invent the first gliders.

Daniel

RedDg · « **Reply #9 on:** December 11, 2005, 06:44:05 PM »

I think Vulcan posted some time ago about a Kiwi who invented the airplane before the Wright Brothers.

Suave · « **Reply #10 on:** December 11, 2005, 07:03:47 PM »

I'm pretty sure it was a soviet.

eagl · « **Reply #11 on:** December 11, 2005, 07:11:02 PM »

Naw Suave, in Soviet Russia, the Plane Designes YOU!

Vulcan · « **Reply #12 on:** December 11, 2005, 07:15:33 PM »

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Originally posted by RedDg
I think Vulcan posted some time ago about a Kiwi who invented the airplane before the Wright Brothers.

A guy called Richard Pearse, in Canterbury, NZ, is supposed to have flown 31 March 1903: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pearse

But who knows, the Wright Brothers are the fathers of modern aviation in my book. People like Pearse well... meh..., he never went on to contribute anything to aviation like the Wright Brothers did.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #13 on:** December 11, 2005, 07:42:56 PM »

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Originally posted by Henrique Jitsu
Davinci drawed a helicopter,not a plane...

Sketches of an airplane Leo didn't think about.

Photo of the Wright Flyer Dec 17, 1903

In 1906, Santos Dumont built a biplane of what the French had begun to call the type du Wright, loosely based on the Wright biplane plans that had been published in several European magazines.

The elevator and rudder protruded in front of the wings like the head of a duck in flight. It was promptly dubbed a canard (French for "duck"), and the name was incorporated into the growing aeronautical lexicon.

Estes · « **Reply #14 on:** December 11, 2005, 07:49:21 PM »

Thank you Holden. I couldn't find a picture of that sketch. I knew he designed it after watching birds. But couldn't find the damn picture.