but for real is there another answer besides Pilâtre de Rozier and d’Arlandes? what counts as flying?
edit: ok first controlled, powered flight was Orville Wright and the only reason you guys (brasilians) say it was Santos-Dumont is because he was brasilian lol
(Plane) The first controlled flight was in 1903, done by the Wright brothers and in 1906 the first self propelled fixed wings flight took place, done by Romanian Traian Vuia, while in 1910 Henri Coandă, another Romanian, invents the first jet aircraft.
The Turkish claim differs in that sense, Hazarfen Ahmet Çelebi was so-called documented to fly from Galata Tower to the Asian Side in the 17th century, with his self-made wings similar to Da Vinci’s design. He later got killed from Sultan as he was worried if he can sneak to the palace.
The truth is the story is probably fabricated, Evliya Çelebi who documented the story in his travel journal is known with writing many fictional tales. Nonetheless he was a great writer, coming up with many fun tales about Ottoman territories.
That depends on what kind of flight you have in mind. Hot air balloons are usually attributed to the Montgolfier brothers, Gliders to Otto Lilienthal, powered flight to the Wright brothers and space flight to Yuri Gagarin although other names do occasionally also pop up.
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The first confirmed human flight was accomplished by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier in a tethered Montgolfier balloon in 1783.
It’s a fact, not an opinion.
Depends on how you define flying.
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but for real is there another answer besides Pilâtre de Rozier and d’Arlandes? what counts as flying?
edit: ok first controlled, powered flight was Orville Wright and the only reason you guys (brasilians) say it was Santos-Dumont is because he was brasilian lol
(Plane) The first controlled flight was in 1903, done by the Wright brothers and in 1906 the first self propelled fixed wings flight took place, done by Romanian Traian Vuia, while in 1910 Henri Coandă, another Romanian, invents the first jet aircraft.
The first free flight was done on the 21 of November 1783 by Pilâtre de Rozier and the marquis d’Arlandes.
But the first confirmed human flight, was the Montgolfier brothers also in the summer of 1783, but this was not a free flight.
The Turkish claim differs in that sense, Hazarfen Ahmet Çelebi was so-called documented to fly from Galata Tower to the Asian Side in the 17th century, with his self-made wings similar to Da Vinci’s design. He later got killed from Sultan as he was worried if he can sneak to the palace.
The truth is the story is probably fabricated, Evliya Çelebi who documented the story in his travel journal is known with writing many fictional tales. Nonetheless he was a great writer, coming up with many fun tales about Ottoman territories.
In Germany, it’s Albrecht Ludwig Berblinger and Otto Lilienthal.
Berblinger (“the tailor from Ulm”) was ridiculed in his lifetime due to people’s ignorance, but he’s a sort of anti-hero, and a local icon in Ulm.
Lilienthal is genuinely celebrated as a flight pioneer, especially around Berlin.
That depends on what kind of flight you have in mind. Hot air balloons are usually attributed to the Montgolfier brothers, Gliders to Otto Lilienthal, powered flight to the Wright brothers and space flight to Yuri Gagarin although other names do occasionally also pop up.