The subject is discussed in some detail in the book: The Imperial Russian Air Service. Unlike US blimps- these appeared to be operated by both the Army and the Navy.
They made bicycles for a living before aircraft.
woo... quite a few. But one of the most prevalent was Da vinci, as it was he who drew countless flying machines. But the Wright brothers were the first to succeed.The Wright Brothers.
Man. We can't fly, but we have flying machines like aircraft.
The Wright brothers had an interest in flying machines ever since their boyhood when their father brought home a toy rubber-band powered helicopter. The obvious scientific and economic implications of building the worlds first practical flying machine must also have been a motivator.
The first flying machines were made by the two American brothers the Wright Brothers, they flew it for the first time at Kitty Hawk. Actually, that was the first "successful" flying machine. The actual first flying machines were created, although they were not "patented," nor were they successful, by Leonardo da Vinci.
Flying- Machines,
The Wright brothers built and flew aircraft because they were fascinated with flying, and saw it was the way of the future.
The Wright Brothers tested their flying machines at Kitty Hawk.
No, many aircraft flew short flights before the Wrights. Their fame was in flying the first practical powered aeroplane.
Leonardo Davinich.
The US Army bought their first aicraft from the Wright Brothers and it was called the Wright Flyer. The first aircraft casualty was an Army officer who was flying with one of the Wright brothers when he crashed.
The first names of the two brothers that made one of the first flying machines are Orville and Wilbur Wright.