Comments by "" (@jboss1073) on "How a steam-powered aeroplane took to the air in England in 1894; long before the Wright brothers" video.

@crabby7668 "Iirc he only did short straight hops like most of the rest. The big thing about the wright's was their mastery of control, so they could turn and moanouvre the plane ie what we all expect from a plane these days. The rest couldn't." I'm sorry to say you remember incorrectly. Not only could Santos-Dumont's 14-Bis turn and manouvre and be fully controllable - not on its first flight but on its late November flights onwards after ailerons had been added - but his flight is the one recognized by the Federation Aeronautique International as being the first flight - and not the one by the Wright brothers. The lack of mention of Santos-Dumont only shows the ignorance about the official history of this subject.
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It is incorrect. The planes made by the Wright brothers were not considered manageable by anyone but the Wrights themselves who had trained hundreds of times on their 1902 model. To this day their planes are not considered to possess the "fully controllable flight" trait. The first fully-controllable, sustained, powered, manned, heavier-than-air flight was by Alberto Santos-Dumont according to the Federation Aeronautique International.
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@neddyseagoon9601 "There again, it took Bleriot next to no time to build a very much better and very differently laid out plane that exceeded even their efforts." Bleriot built with the knowledge from the 14-Bis by Santos-Dumont, which was properly the first sustained, controlled, powered, heavier-than-air, manned flight, as recognized by the Federation Aeronautique International.
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"Take note of Brazilian inventor Alberto Santos Dumont, who many claim also preceded the Wright brothers." None other than the Federation Aeronautique International claims that the first flight was by Santos-Dumont. The author of this video is ignorant regarding the official history of the subject of early flying machines.
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Forget winning the Paris prize, his flight is the only one recognized by the Federation Aeronautique International as having been the first flight. That is the official history of the subject of Early Flying Machines.
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The first flight is recognized by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale as having been done in France by a Brazilian named Alberto Santos-Dumont. His flight was the first made by a powered heavier-than-air machine. Before the Wright brothers, there were planes stable enough to fly but without full controllability. The Wright brothers invented the opposite: a fully controllable flyer that sacrificed stability; it also needed to take off into a headwind; but it was so unstable that it was "almost unmanageable by anyone but the Wrights, who had trained themselves in the 1902 glider hundreds of times prior". The plane by Santos-Dumont was both stable and fully controllable and could take off like a normal plane.
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