Leonardo Da Vinci Or Wright Brothers - Who Was The Inventor Of The Airplane?

Leonardo da Vinci was quite an inventor, because he made sketches of a flying machine that used manpower. The earliest flying machines had no power; they were actually huge kites or gliders. During the 19th century many experiments with that were carried on. Till that time nobody had yet made a heavier-than-air machine that was equipped with its own power. The first man to show that it could be done was Professor Samuel Langley, secretary of the Smithsonian institution of Washington, D.C. He built two machines of 1.5 horse power steam engine and became successful in 1896. In 1903, Langley's full-sized flying machine was tested and wrecked. Orville and Wilbur Wright succeeded in making man's first flight in a heavier-than-air machine with its own power, on 17th December, 1903. At Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, they traveled one flight of 30 meters in 12 seconds and a second flight of 260 meters in 59 seconds.

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Leonardo Di Vinci designed a flying machine but he did not actually invent one.The Wright brothers invented the aeroplane.

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