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Originally posted by Sho Nuff
It wasnt all that its made out to be. There was a much longer sustained flight in Brazil a few months later and that vehicle was completely self propelled while the Wright Brothers plane was dependent on favorable weather conditions (which may be why the replica didnt work).
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Alberto Santos-Dumont is the Brazilian guy
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On 17 December 1903, the Wright brothers, in the USA, made use of a rudimentary catapult (with an inclined plan) to throw into the air their Flyer biplane, having flown close to the ground for a short hop of 40 metres (in subsequent flights they managed to fly for 200 metres). Santos-Dumont, however, would be the first to build and fly an aircraft "heavier-than-the-air" by its own means of propulsion.
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Here's the
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