1903
They weren't important during Victorian times. The first flight didn't take place until after Victoria's life. Before then, the idea of heavier than air flight was nothing more than a dream.
To prove that heavier-than-air flight was possible.
There are many people to claim to of flown but the first witnessed flight might be by a Mr. Otto Lilienthal
The first heavier than air flight, which was by the Wright brothers was in 1903.
making the first airplane and succesfully flying it
The airplane was invented not discovered. The first official heavier than air flight was at Kitty Hawk.
A number of people had built gliders; they could jump from a hill and fly down, but it wasn't "powered" flight. Orville and Wilbur Wright built the first heavier-than-air craft that could take off under its own power.
the world's first flight over a large body of water in a heavier-than-air craft.
The first successful flight of a powered heavier-than-air aircraft took place at Kill Devil Hill in Kitty Hawk. That was the Wright Brothers.
The first attempted mechanical, heavier-than-air flight was in the early 1800s. At the time of the flight, the technology had been in the works for over a century, and it would be almost another one hundred years before a successful manned flight.
The Wright brothers' first airplane, the Wright Flyer, was not a powered, heavier-than-air craft; it was indeed a powered, heavier-than-air airplane. It was also not the first aircraft to achieve sustained flight, as the Wright Flyer successfully made its first powered flight on December 17, 1903. Additionally, it did not have a closed cockpit, as it was an open-frame design.
The are famous for invinting the first ariplane.