1900
The Wrights flew from Kittyhawk, North Carolina
Observers disagreed on the height but 10 metres seemed reasonably close.
37 seconds
It was 36 years between the first airplane flight and the first helicopter flight. The Wrights flew in 1903, Sikorsky flew his first helicopter in 1939.
Both of the Wrights flew their first successful powered flights in 1903.
Dec. 17 1903.
The Kitty Hawk, flown by the Wright brothers, was the first aircraft or airplane to ever take flight.The Wright brothers first successful powered aircraft was named the " Wright Flyer 1" , not the Kittyhawk. It also was NOT the first aircraft or airplane to ever take flight ! -Many others flew before, just not so long and successfully under control.
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 did NOT actually INVENT the airplane. They were builders and experimenters who followed the experiments of other inventors and builders of the time, and modified and improved other designs. The Wrights were the first to fly, control and safely land a motorized aircraft carrying a human pilot.
In my considered opinion, it was Gustave Whitehead, in Fairfield, Connecticut in July 1901. NOT the Wrights.
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The Wright brothers are remembered for making the first airplane. In school, you will learn about them in history class.the wright brothers were the first people to design and build the first motorised aeroplane.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Very wrong.Otto Lilienthal and others had built motorized airplanes many years before the Wrights did, the problem was the earlier airplanes were uncontrollable and at best could only fly in perfectly straight lines.What the Wright brothers did that nobody before them did was design a "wing warping" flight control system that permitted controlled powered flight with full maneuverability. They were the first to successfully fly in a horizontal figure eight path.