Who invented air planes?

Answer 1

The Wright Brothers are held to be the ones who performed the first motorized flight, but there had been gliders for quite some years before that. George Cayley is seen as the inventor of the first manned glider, in 1853.

The first powered flight by Orville Wright (December 17, 1903) covered only 120 feet, less than the wingspan of a Boeing 757, while the next two flights covered 175 and 200 feet respectively.
Orville and Wilbur Wright had the first successful flight.
ANSWER:The earliest know drawings are from Leonardo da vinci. He drew the first example of a helicopter and a glider, but it's not known whether they ever got built back then.

Gustave Whitehead, a German immigrant living in Connecticut in 1901, has been designated as "first in powered flight" by Jane's All the World Aircraft (March, 2013) - they are considered the "bible" of aviation history, worldwide. The Wright Brothers - Orville and Wilbur Wright, of Dayton, Ohio are now considered second with powered flight. Gustave Whitehead invented and flew the world's first airplane in 1901, at Fairfield, CT. His monoplane, called "No. 21" or "the Condor", was based on Count D'Esterno's and Otto Lilienthal's designs. Search on Gustave Whitehead Info for more information on this little-known pioneer inventor of the world's first successful airplane.
Wilbur and Orville Wright flew the very first successful aircraft in December of 1903. These North Carolian brothers' witty invention only flew for approximately 12 seconds and traveled a mere distance of 120 feet (less than the wingspan of many commercial airplanes nowadays).