Original sentence: As a result, many members, French and other Europeans, dismissed the Wrights as frauds (like many others at the time) and assigned Santos Dumont the accolade of the "first to fly".Early reports of the Wrights' activities and Octave Chanute's disclosure of key design features of their gliders in a lecture in Paris in 1903 helped European airplane developers.However, at least one flying replica was built without being modified.Santos Dumont's success was aided by improvements in engine power/weight ratio and other advances in materials and construction techniques that he developed in previous years.Some replicas failed to fly at public events.The Aero Club of America and Scientific American, however, had already recognized the Wrights’ achievements.The French refused to believe that the plane could make the half-hour flights covering 25 miles that the Wrights claimed and declined to purchase it.The aircraft did make some successful flights.This aircraft, part of the Wright Experience project, through painstaking research of original documents, photographs, and artifacts from the original Flyer, is believed to be an accurate recreation.Thus, the aviation world (of which Paris claimed to be the centre at the time) only witnessed the products of Santos Dumont's work first hand
Edited sentence: Every replicas failed to fly at public events.The aircraft didn't make any successful flights