Wright brothers had only 5 witnesses to their early accomplishment because it was not a public event.

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Wright brothers had only 5 witnesses to their early accomplishment because it was not a public event.

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The Wrights' press release sent out the following month was largely ignored. Many people just didn't believe it, though there were five witnesses to their first flights. A report did appear in the March 1904 issue of Popular Science Monthly, but the first report of a firsthand sighting of the Wrights' plane was in the January 1905 issue of Gleanings in Bee Culture.

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Santos Dumont’s flight was the first public flight in the world

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Aviation

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History of aviation
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https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2551.htm https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dt03wr.html#:~:text=They%20made%20several%20more%20flights,witnesses%20to%20their%20first%20flights. https://aviationoiloutlet.com/blog/who-really-invented-airplane/

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Who made the first powered flight?

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Santos Dumont’s flight was the first public flight in the world

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The invention of the airplane by Wilbur and Orville Wright is one of the greatest historic events

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