You do know human flight was actually invented in 1783, right?
>>18405305>In July and August 1849, Austrian forces besieging Venice used hot air balloons for the first recorded aerial bombing, attempting to break the city's resistance after a revolt. Nearly 200 pilotless, paper balloons carrying 24–30 lb bombs were launched, but volatile winds made the attack largely ineffective, causing little damage and at times blowing them back toward the attackers
>>18405305earlier experiments conducted in Prague were not successful.
>>18405305Is anyone even denying this? Nobody says that the Wright Brothers invented human powered-flight, just that they invented the airplane. The reason airplanes were such a big deal (and the reason multiple countries, the British, French, Brazilians, and Americans) were competing to see who can be the first to invent them was because they actually enabled fast practical air transport and had military applications beyond surveying. Zeppelins were extremely slow, dangerous, and took up a lot of space, and Hot Air Balloons are really only good for surveying, since you can only control their altitude, a Hot Air Balloon with horizontal movement capability is technically a thermal airship
>>18405305Yes, no one argues that, we argue who invented the airplane.And it was Santos Dummont
>>18405305Wingsuits are the only actual form of human flight. Everything else is just a vessel that flies.
>>18405947Alberto Dumont's early prototypes would never have gotten off the ground. His main issue was that he chose to use the Antoinette 8V engine for his prototypes because the reasoning was that these engines were already rated for high-latitude airships. The problem though was that they had a very poor power:weight ratio. The Wright Brothers actually realized this would be an issue, which is why they literally built their own bespoke engine (the Wright Vertical 4) for their early planes instead of using an off-the-shelf engine like Santos did. Nevertheless, it isn't going to stop Brazillians from thinking they were the first, even though Santos' earl prototypes literally came 3 years after the Wright Flyer anyways.
>>18405962Hey dude, I just made a mini-sun powered intergalactic vessel in my garage, I've already tested it multiple times and thus am the inventor.Witnesses? Why would I need those????
>>18405962Dumont could never have built his own engine because he had no experience in machining. The Wright's owned a machine shop, they were experienced mechanics, Dumont was just a rich hobbyist who was interested in gliders.
>>18405305Kind of.
>>18405962still managed to be the first powered flight on film in front of a qualified jury
