Who really invented the airplane. Santos Dumont (Brazil) or Wright Brothers (USA)?
Well, depends on ‘invented’ really. The wright brothers or Santos may have successfully built and flown the first planes as we know them today, however the idea, and differing inventions and leaps in powered flight have been ongoing since 400BC when Archytas, the Ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, statesman, and strategist, was reputed to have designed and built the first artificial, self-propelled flying device, the model propelled by a jet of what was probably steam, flew 200 meters.on a wire Later Cayley, (George, Sir) the founder of the science of aerodynamics, credited as the first person to separate the forces of lift and drag which are in effect on any flight vehicle, in 1799 he set forth the concept of the modern airplane as a fixed-wing flying machine with separate systems for lift, propulsion, and control The first self-powered fixed-wing aircraft which we’d probably recognise today as a plane was created by Englishman John Stringfellow, whose unmanned mode
