Every country has their ego trip. When I lived in Canada and was an Air Cadet, we were taught that the first airplane flight was Alexander Graham Bell in Badeck, Nova Scotia. Nothing was ever said about the Wright Brothers. Then again, most folks in the U.S. think the Wright Brothers were the first to fly. They were of course predecessed by Otto Lillienthal (gliders) and he, by the Montgolfier Bros. (balloons)