Where were aeroplanes invented?

Answer 1

The first airplane to take flight was built by the Wright brothers in Ohio USA and was transported first to North Carolina and flown for its first time there.

While some argue that Santos Dummont (Brazilian) invented the airplane while he was in France there is no evidence of any actual physical works done to support the claim, there are no patents so the credit goes to the Wright Brothers who filed the first patent.

Gustave Whitehead, a German immigrant living in Connecticut in 1901, has been designated as "first in powered flight" by Jane's All the World Aircraft (March, 2013) - they are considered the "bible" of aviation history, worldwide. The Wright Brothers - Orville and Wilbur Wright, of Dayton, Ohio are now considered second with powered flight. Gustave Whitehead invented and flew the world's first airplane in 1901, at Fairfield, CT. His monoplane, called "No. 21" or "the Condor", was based on Count D'Esterno's and Otto Lilienthal's designs. Search on Gustave Whitehead Info for more information on this little-known pioneer inventor of the world's first successful airplane.
The Wright Brothers of the United States were the first successful powered flight.
the most straightforward answer would be Kittyhawk, in the USA, where the wright brothers built the first successful powered flying machine. however, many french pioneers had been trying unsuccessfully for a number of years, many of them losing their lives in the process. furthermore, if you count the aeroplane as something that flies with or without power, man has been experimenting with all sorts of gliding contraptions since the first millennium, and Chinese emporer wan hu tried to fly by attatching many rockets to a chair, sometime around the 12 or 13th century. it simply exploded and killed him. going even further back, there is the greek legend of icarus, who flew with wings made of feathers and wax, but was killed when he flew too close to the sun, the wax melted and his wings fell apart
The first true airplane was invented by Alberto Santos-Dumont in Brazil.

Although in the United States, Orville and Wilbur Wright are credited for designing the first airplane , the reality is the Wright Brothers used a launch catapult for their flying machines. Santos-Dumont used wheels whereas the Wrights stuck with skids for too long, which necessitated the use of a catapult in the absence of significant wind. Many people consider the Wright Brothers's design to be more of a glider than a heavy than air airplane.

The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, founded in France at the beginning of the century to keep track of aviation records and other aeronautical activities, stated among its rules that an aircraft should be able to take off under its own power in order to qualify for a record. Therefore this meant the 14-bis was, technically, the true first fixed-wing aircraft.

the first plane was invented in North Carolina