37 seconds
Observers disagreed on the height but 10 metres seemed reasonably close.
In my considered opinion, it was Gustave Whitehead, in Fairfield, Connecticut in July 1901. NOT the Wrights.
1900
8 seconds
Amelia Earhart was the first ever woman to fly a solar plane and she was the first person in the world to fly a solar plane.
The Wright brothers flew their first plane in the 1903 because they were trying to be the first people to get a plane to fly.
They made the first plane to fly in air in 1903.
Madame Therese Peltier was the first white woman to fly a plane
Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was the firstpassenger plane to fly overseas !!
Igor Sikorsky was the first person to fly in an airplane, in his 1913 airplane called "The Grand." The Wrights were the first people to fly an airplane, but you fly ON a Wright Flyer--it's very open. Sikorsky invented the enclosed cockpit.
The wright brothers were the first people to fly some kind of plane it is them who brought planes to this time and day. They made the first ever plane.
The first working plane was piloted by the Wright brothers.