Who Invented the Airplane?: Wright Brothers vs. Whitehead

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INTRODUCTION THE AERONAUTS Sitting Sitting in your airplane seat you can't stop smiling The airplane speeds down the runway and lifts It climbs higher Soon you're cruising at 35,000 feet 10,670 m It's time to recline and watch a movie on your personal screen Just think in a few hours you'll be in Hawaii Traveling by airplane is how most of us get to faraway places But in the early twentieth century flight was still a dream Many tried to get into the air and many failed Inventors like Octave Chanute and Otto Lilienthal created gliders in the nineteenth century They were the first aeronauts a new group of people who had traveled by air Some gliders lifted people into the sky and traveled a short distance To many people these days flying seems like no big deal But in the Wright brothers time it seemed extraordinary