The Wrights invented the airplane, get over it
The Wrights didn't invent the airplane, get over it. They improved on what had been developed prior and were the first to achieve the ultimate success. In fact, there are those who credit Sir George Cayley with inventing the aeroplane, but not a claim I would make. Claims are made that Whittle invented the jet engine, yet a patent was filed as far back as 1791 for a gas turbine, and Ęgidius Elling filed a patent in 1884, and went on to build and run the first operating gas turbine in 1903. Whittle, once again, didn't invent the jet engine, but built upon what had gone before. Metallurgy was a problem preventing many of the early experimenters progressing their ideas, in the case of aircraft a suitable power source. It took the development of the internal combustion engine before powered flight was a possibility. Once again, as Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." The Wrights and Whittle were standing on the shoulders of those who had gone before and laid the ground work.