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"...all these worlds..." is a blog by David Hitt. It covers space exploration, decent science fiction, humor (by its very nature), and whatever else I happen to find cool. (Formerly "You Must Fight The Bear")
Name: David Hitt About Me: Inspiring the next generation of explorers... See my complete profile
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:: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 ::
First Flight Once again, I've received an e-mail in the Liftoff guestbook about the fact that the Wright Brothers did not make the first powered flight. There are reports that there was someone else in the U.S. who made a flight first, but did not document or reproduce it like the Wright Brothers did, and thus his accomplishment was lost. Which may or may not be true. But this is not who I get e-mails about. The one I get e-mails about, and this just puzzles me, is Albert Santos-Dumont, of Brazil, considered the Father of Aviation by other people in Brazil. What fascinates me about this is that nobody claims he flew before the Wright Brothers in 1903. His first flight is universally agreed to have occurred in 1906. So... um... huh? None of the e-mails I have received address this particular discrepency.
