Well, there is one question you need to answer if you persist in the Wrights invented the aeroplane argument, and that is, why didn't they patent inventing the airplane?
Patent - a grant made to an inventor assuring him the sole right to make, use, and sell his invention for a certain period of time
Invent - to conceive or devise something previously unknown
They couldn't patent the airplane because it was pre-existing. They patented those items they could, that being the means of control.
oh and for added interest the FAI wasn't organized until 1905
Tell me something I don't know. I posted that little fact back on page one (post #18).
Awaiting an answer as to why they didn't patent the aeroplane. resistance if futile! (am I presumptuous in assuming you meant "is futile"?)