The central problem was developing an engine that produced enough power to fly and yet was light enough to be useful.
What made the plane actually occur was the ability to develop this light engine.
there planes kept crashing because of the wing thingys on the sides
No, the American Wright Brothers are credited with inventing the airplane.
Wilbur and Orville Wright are credited with inventing the airplane.
Archaeologist in Papua New Guinea founded airplane.
The cellphone never had any problems inventing it as it did not invent anything.
The Wright brothers did not have any help on inventing. They were on their own. They were even discouraged. They were not even supported.
The motorized airplane, lightweight two piston airplane engine, and the first glider.
The airplane solved the problems of communication, transportation. Let's not forget that the airplane change completely the course of humankind. Letting the atomic bomb been dropped, the 9 11 incident would have not been made, etc. The airplane also led to the invention of the spaceshuttle so it changed science. Also it changed how we think and dream about the future, where we can go and how fast we can get there, what new world can be explored when the sky is no longer a limit.
There were hundreds of problems.
The Wright Brothers, mostly, because they made the first working one.
They were clueless at first cause they didn't know what to do!
no they were invented in 0024