[extropy-chat] FWD (SK) Re: Who Invented the Airplane? A Brazilian, of Course

[Terry W. Colvin]

>It was on November 12, 1906,

Actually, it was Sept 13.

 > when Santos-Dumont flew a kite-like contraption
 >with boxy wings called the 14-Bis some 722 feet (220 meters) on the 
outskirts of Paris.
 >It being the first public flight in the world,

No, it was the first documented flight in Europe.

 >he was hailed as the inventor of the airplane all over Europe.

Only by the profoundly ignorant. The Wrights had already gotten a patent on 
their aircraft by then, and had made several well-documented public 
flights. In 1905, the British War Office had contacted the Wrights about 
buying planes from them.

Dave Palmer

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