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>> He is credited with a powered hop of 11 m (36 ft) made on 18 March 1906 Revisionist History like this fascinates me. It is very well documented, with writt

>> He is credited with a powered hop of 11 m (36 ft) made on 18 March 1906 Revisionist History like this fascinates me. It is very well documented, with written texts, witnesses and even a handful of photographs that the Wright brothers had functional manned aircraft 3 years prior in 1903... Yet I've personally seen Romanian postal stamps that credit Vuia with "the first flight" for him managing to jump just 11m (36 ft) in a plane.

randunel 2y ago
If jumping off a cliff (or a steep dune, like the wright brothers did) counts as flying, then it's been done many times before mankind, even. The first actual flight, with the aeroplane taking off and flying instead of a human jumping off a cliff/dune, was Vuia's. You cherry picked the wrong quote, read the entire articles.