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However, engineers and inventors did not give up and continued to study how to build the airplane that would take off, fly and land without problems. In 1901, After two unsuccessful flights by the German inventor and physicist Gustave Whitehead, finally, The first successful manned powered flight is believed to have taken place on August 14 in Connecticut (USA).
Later, on December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers made their first successful manned flight. They tested a twin-propeller biplane and managed to fly a distance of 260 meters and 59 seconds in the air. Most aviation historians believe that the Wright Brothers met the criteria to be considered the inventors of the first successful airplane before Santos-Dumont because the Wright Flyer was heavier-than-air, manned and powered, able to take off and land under its own power and controllable along three axes. That’s why the Wright brothers have been considered the inventors of aeroplane and not whitehead; even though he was first to fly.
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