The first aircraft? Not quite Wright.. The others of invention; WE LOOK AT RIVAL CLAIMS TO THE WORLD'S GREAT DISCOVERIES.(News)

The Mirror (London, England) | December 19, 2003 | Copyright

Byline: DAMIEN FLETCHER

THIS week the world celebrates the centenary of the first powered flight, by the Wright brothers.

But should we give them the credit? Critics argue that their Kitty Hawk plane The Flyer only took off with help from a headwind so it wasn't a truly unassisted flight.

In Brazil, where few people have heard of Orville and Wilbur Wright, schoolchildren are taught countryman Alberto Santos Dumont should be credited with the achievement.

They maintain that on October 23, 1906, Dumont made the first mechanical flight on a ...

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