I'm not going to create a controversy here. It's already documented in fold of history that the first man control flight was by American Wright brothers. We can see this as the Wright brothers is living in the centered of where everything is going to be well documented. I'll think he's very lucky man indeed.
Off course there is others who claimed to be the first to fly like Richard Pearse (New Zealand), Gustave whitehead (US), Lyman Gilmore (US), Dr Wilhelm Kress (Austria), Karl Jatho (Germany), John Joseph Montgomery (US), Traian Vuia (Romania), Jacob Ellenhammer (Danmark)and Alberto Santos_Dumont (Brazil).
Is it that's how the history going on? Actually there is another most controversial point of view around, but I don't think this is gonna your cupa of coffee. This is not what we all learn about from our school.
Okay, I read this in Mr. Rene Noorbergen book. He wrote how advanced aviation exist in prehistoric times! One of the earliest preserved records of flight is in a Babylonian set of laws called Halkatha, which contain this passage:”To operate a flying machine is a great privilege. Knowledge of flying is most ancient, a gift of the gods of old for saving lives.”
The Babylonian 'Epic of Etana', describing a detail prehistoric flight in period between 3000 and 2400 BC.
Another Chaldean work, the Sifr'ala, dates back more than 5000 years decipher a detailed account of how to build and operate an aircraft. The text speaks of various parts such as vibrating spheres, graphite rods and copper coils; and on the subject of flight the writer comments on the wind resistance, gliding and stability. Unfortunately, many key lines of the text are missing, making any attempt to reconstructing the craft impossible.
Early Chinese annals also contain several references to the art of flying. Emperor Shun, reigned between 2258 and 2208 BC, reportedly not only constructed a flying craft but also tested a parachute- more than 36 centuries before Leonardo da Vinci.
References to flight also appear in ancient Nepalese and Poleynesians.
In 1898, a small model of plane was discovered in a tomb near Saqqara, and was dated at approximately 200 BC. At the time of its discovery, the birth of modern aviation was still several years away, and so, when the strange object was sent to Cairo, it was cataloged and then shelved to gather dust until 1969, when they open the box and to their surprised discovered when tested the bird model actually having characteristic of present modern airplane model and fourteen model has been discovered from various tomb.
In 1954 a US touring Colombian government collection of ancient gold artifacts, a wing animal artifact caught the eye of Ivan T.Sanderson, after he consulting a number of aerodynamics experts, he came to mind boggling conclusion that's the gold object is a model of a jet aircraft at least a thousand years old.
Among the remarkable description of flying machine found in the ancient Hindu sacred books, Samaranga Sutradhara. Here a short excerpts from the text:
'The aircraft which can go by its own force like a bird- on the earth or water or through the air – is called a Vimana. That which can travel in the sky from place to place is called a Vimana by the sages of old'.
Maybe we cannot be so proud with our civilization accomplishment in aviation, probably earlier people have done so although there is no concrete proved (like we can unearth one or build one). Off course they won't be any, except proved from story and description that come from every civilization, worldwide.
Off course there is others who claimed to be the first to fly like Richard Pearse (New Zealand), Gustave whitehead (US), Lyman Gilmore (US), Dr Wilhelm Kress (Austria), Karl Jatho (Germany), John Joseph Montgomery (US), Traian Vuia (Romania), Jacob Ellenhammer (Danmark)and Alberto Santos_Dumont (Brazil).
Is it that's how the history going on? Actually there is another most controversial point of view around, but I don't think this is gonna your cupa of coffee. This is not what we all learn about from our school.
Okay, I read this in Mr. Rene Noorbergen book. He wrote how advanced aviation exist in prehistoric times! One of the earliest preserved records of flight is in a Babylonian set of laws called Halkatha, which contain this passage:”To operate a flying machine is a great privilege. Knowledge of flying is most ancient, a gift of the gods of old for saving lives.”
The Babylonian 'Epic of Etana', describing a detail prehistoric flight in period between 3000 and 2400 BC.
Another Chaldean work, the Sifr'ala, dates back more than 5000 years decipher a detailed account of how to build and operate an aircraft. The text speaks of various parts such as vibrating spheres, graphite rods and copper coils; and on the subject of flight the writer comments on the wind resistance, gliding and stability. Unfortunately, many key lines of the text are missing, making any attempt to reconstructing the craft impossible.
Early Chinese annals also contain several references to the art of flying. Emperor Shun, reigned between 2258 and 2208 BC, reportedly not only constructed a flying craft but also tested a parachute- more than 36 centuries before Leonardo da Vinci.
References to flight also appear in ancient Nepalese and Poleynesians.
In 1898, a small model of plane was discovered in a tomb near Saqqara, and was dated at approximately 200 BC. At the time of its discovery, the birth of modern aviation was still several years away, and so, when the strange object was sent to Cairo, it was cataloged and then shelved to gather dust until 1969, when they open the box and to their surprised discovered when tested the bird model actually having characteristic of present modern airplane model and fourteen model has been discovered from various tomb.
In 1954 a US touring Colombian government collection of ancient gold artifacts, a wing animal artifact caught the eye of Ivan T.Sanderson, after he consulting a number of aerodynamics experts, he came to mind boggling conclusion that's the gold object is a model of a jet aircraft at least a thousand years old.
Among the remarkable description of flying machine found in the ancient Hindu sacred books, Samaranga Sutradhara. Here a short excerpts from the text:
'The aircraft which can go by its own force like a bird- on the earth or water or through the air – is called a Vimana. That which can travel in the sky from place to place is called a Vimana by the sages of old'.
Maybe we cannot be so proud with our civilization accomplishment in aviation, probably earlier people have done so although there is no concrete proved (like we can unearth one or build one). Off course they won't be any, except proved from story and description that come from every civilization, worldwide.
