Comments by "Neil of Longbeck" (@neiloflongbeck5705) on "First Flight: The Race to Create the World's First Flying Machine - Full Documentary" video.

  1. The Wrights didn't invent the aileron that honour goes to British scientist Matthew Puers Watt Boulton who patented the aileron in 1868. Unfortunately for Curtiss and the others the Wrights sued this earlier patent had long been forgotten.
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  2.  @SoloPilot6  but they claimed that Curtis infringed their Patent and won.
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  3. Whitehead's alleged fought was steam powered. This alone casts doubts on his claim ofva powered flught in 1899.. He'd have needed to lift sufficient charcoal and water for the boiler to maintain the requied steam pressure; and as m^3 of water has a mass of 1,000kg it means that Whitehead aircraft is unlike to have survived the filling of the water tank let alone flying. Not only did Whitehead need to lift the weight of the boiler, water and charcoal it also had lift the weight of Louis Darvarich. Mr Darvarich claimed in his 1934 affidavit to have been aboard this flight as stoker for the boiler and receiving a severe scalding in the crash at the end of the flight which required sveral weeks in hospital. and all of this happened in a weight shift aircraft. I'm surprised that the boiler didn't start a fire on landing as many trains caught fire from the fire in the boiler when a train crashed. Plus all the aerofoil data coming from the likes of von Lillienthal was incorrect, which the Wrights noticed during their experiments with gliders.
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