The Wright brothers just glided in 1903. They flew in 1908.

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simplex 1


and where is the pilot? a MODEL does not count the same as the Dec 17, 1903 controlled powered flight including a human pilot.

SIMPLEX1. Perhaps you are bored? Perhaps you are lonely? Perhaps you are really pretty dumb? BUT foisting off a model without a pilot as YOUR evidence against the WRights is really pretty bad.

FOR all practical purposes the Wrights Invented the airplane as we know it and flew the first flight (human, powered, controlled etc). Others invented the prop, or the engine, or even sewing thread. But the wrights put it together, overcame warp drag and gave mankind the airplane.

Now, if you want to go back to Daedalus, that's fine.

And as far as really piloting a plane with anhedral and not being stable, I will remind you that most pilots today do not learn to fly while laying down in a hip cradle. The Wrights were amazing. SIMPLEX, you are not.