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first successful manned powered flight was in 1903. People have been killing themselves by strapping into gliders for centuries. there was also that French guy who flew in a hot air balloon in the 1800s.
Also, fuck the wright brothers.
Wait, why fuck the Wright brothers? I'm out of the loop
they were patent trolls, essentially. tried to patent the entire concept of an airplane, and tried to sue Curtiss over him creating a plane that actually didn't use the technology they had patented.
Wait, really? I heard that what happened is they’d decided to be sneaky by patenting the control system for a heavier-than-air flying machine since they couldn’t patent the idea of the machine itself. Do you have sources I can research?
Their control system also sucked. The Wright Flyer at the Smithsonian has aftermarket ailerons.
Bruh moment at 30,000 feet. 🛩️