Timeline for Were the Wright Brothers the first to fly?
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| Jan 6, 2014 at 0:33 | comment | added | user unknown | @MonkeyTuesday: Changing the question substantially after answers have been postet was against the policy. You should have opened a second question to ask for powered flights, imho. Why the policy of the site wasn't enforced is outside of my knowledge. | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 0:31 | comment | added | user unknown | @AdamDavis: The english wikipedia talks about "gliding flights" and about him as the "Father of Flight". | |
| Jun 17, 2011 at 20:42 | comment | added | Monkey Tuesday | I apologize for the confusion, I didn't realize I hadn't included the word "powered". It does make a substantial difference. The question has been edited to clarify. | |
| Jun 17, 2011 at 12:51 | comment | added | Adam Davis | There is a distinct difference between "fly" and "glide" and when people talk about human flight, generally they aren't discussing gliding, because humans have been gliding far longer than flying, and it's a more difficult subject to pin down. However you are correct that his is something that must be assumed, so I'll bug the OP to specify. | |
| Jun 17, 2011 at 12:36 | comment | added | user unknown |
Maybe they didn't rely on his work. But that doesn't make them earlier. Powered flight was not in the headline, not in the first paragraph, not in the last, emphasized paragraph. I don't see what your problem is.
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| Jun 17, 2011 at 12:28 | comment | added | Adam Davis | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lilienthal for the German impaired. Notably he did not achieve powered flight - his flights were all glider based. Further, The Wright brothers credited him for a lot of their inspiration, however they threw his data away and instead used their own wind tunnel gathered data for their designs. | |
| Jun 17, 2011 at 12:07 | history | answered | user unknown | CC BY-SA 3.0 |