What would happen if the wright brothers didn't make the airplane?

Answer 1

Since the ancient times when Bellerophon rode the winged horse Pegasus into to battle with the three headed Chimera, since the time Daedalus and Icarus fastened wings out of feathers, string and wax, man has endeavored to fly the skies. At the very least imagined it possible. In Persia, King Kaj Kaoos, as the story goes, attached eagles to his throne to fly around his kingdom and in 400 BC the Chinese invented kites a necessary forerunner to the Wright Brother success at flying an airplane. In the 15th century Leonardo DaVinci made well over one hundred drawings to illustrate his theory of flight and in 1783 the first passenger hot air balloon took flight carrying man up into the sky. In the 19th century George Cayley designed, built and successfully flew gliders that could carry man up to the sky and as humanity neared the 20th century Otto Lilienthal built a glider of which he flew more than 2500 times before crashing to his death after being felled by a strong air turbulence. During this same time span it was Johan Wolfgang von Goethe who declared: "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." It was December 17th of 1903 that Orville and Wilbur Wright first saw their invention successfully fly. Yet, acting simultaneously and independently Louis Bleriot along with collaborator Gabriel Voisin had developed their airplanes and their efforts were largely unsuccessful and Bleriot left Voisin to form his own company of which he built a monoplane that he successfully flew on January 23rd of 1909. Less than three years after the Wright brothers had made their historic flight at Kitty Hawk. Much like it was for those in the desperate race to break the code of the double helix, had the Wright brothers not made their successful attempt that day at Kitty Hawk, then most likely Bleriot would be better known than he is today and if it were not he then surely someone else for humanity endeavors to soar ever higher and refuses to leave advancement to a single few.