Claims to the first powered flight | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-04

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00:00:47 1 Significant claims
00:02:29 2 History
00:02:39 2.1 Antecedents
00:05:09 2.2 The period of claimed flights
00:06:54 2.3 Claims and recognition
00:10:07 3 Ader
00:11:15 4 Whitehead
00:12:37 4.1 Controversy ignites
00:14:21 4.2 History by contract
00:15:26 4.3 iJane's/i renews controversy
00:18:19 5 Langley
00:19:11 5.1 Glenn Curtiss and the Smithsonian
00:20:43 6 Wrights
00:25:12 6.1 The Smithsonian feud
00:26:31 7 Santos-Dumont
00:28:57 8 Minor claims
00:30:00 8.1 Pearse
00:30:43 8.2 Jatho
00:31:39 8.3 Vuia
00:32:32 8.4 Ellehammer



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This article is about the claims. For the aircraft and flights themselves, see Early flying machinesSeveral aviators have been claimed as the first to fly a powered aeroplane. 
Much controversy has surrounded these claims. It is most widely held today that the Wright Brothers were the first to fly successfully. Brazil regards Santos-Dumont as the first successful aviator because the Wright Flyer took off from a rail and, after 1903, used a catapult. An editorial in the influential Jane's All the World's Aircraft 2013 edition supported the claim of Gustave Whitehead.