Shureley must be shome mistake with the date and it's really April 1st.
Originally Posted by
horizon flyer
Actually the first aircraft to fly with people aboard 3 crew was steam powered burned avture and had 2 axis gyro controlled auto pilot for yaw and pitch.
Date was 30 of July 1896 in London and flight was longer than the Wright flyer that needed a catapult launch system. It was called the Maximum Flyer
designed by Sir Hiram Maxim designer of the first fully automatic machine gun made by Vickers and silencers for IC engines and guns. There are pictures on the web to back this up. So the Wright flyer was not the first.