Who invented the first successful airplane depends on how people define an aircraft, Paone said. Wilbur and Orville Wright, colloquially known as the Wright Brothers, are credited with flying the ...

First came his affair with ballooning ... Wanderley has spent much of his life steeped in the debate over who invented the airplane. He believes to his core that Santos Dumont deserves the ...

He added, 'Everyone knows that Santos-Dumont was the first person to fly something ... most of his life fighting the debate over who invented the airplane, insisting that Santos-Dumont should ...