Comments by "Neil of Longbeck" (@neiloflongbeck5705) on "What Was America’s First Fighter Aircraft?" video.

@mikearmstrong8483 then those historians are doing piss poor research. The Wrights achieved so much and no one can deny them their successes.
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@mikearmstrong8483 have a good day.
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Some piss poor research or script writing here within the 1st minute. The Americans weren't the first to fly heavier than air vehicles that was the French. They were the first to fly a fully controllable powered aircraft capable of sustained flight rather than the fully controllable weight shift gliders that had been in the air for over a decade at that point. The first glider flight was over 100 years earlier in 1801 when André Gbuillaume Resnier de Goué managed a 300m straight line glide at Angoulême sustaining a broken leg on landing. By the time the Wrights got involved in aviation men like Otto Lilienthal could control the direction of their gliders by shifting their weight. Others who flew heavier than air craft before the Wrights include Octave Chanute, Percy Pilcher and Lawrence Hargrave who invented the box kite. All the Wrights did was to solve the inconsistencies in the aerofoil data (for their heavier than air gliders), create a engine powerful enough to get them off the ground and a practical propeller and put all of them together and take flight. BUT THEY WERE NEVER THE FIRST TO FLY A HEAVIER THAN AIR CRAFT.
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@mikearmstrong8483 and I'm agreeing with your comment.
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