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Meshuga Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 02:07 PM
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Brazilian DUers: Who invented the airplane?
I've seen some Brazilians around here and I was wondering what they think of the story below?

Who flew first? Wright Brothers or Santos Dumont? :-)


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20031209/sc_nm/people_santosdumont_dc_7
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 02:10 PM
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1. now you can start with the French and German claims (and the other America
Ader and Jatho.
I personally believe that the Wrights were first, but in 1905, not in 1903.
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Meshuga Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 02:16 PM
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2. Personally...
Wright brothers in 1903 works for me! :-)
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tsipple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 02:25 PM
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3. Neither. (Trick Question.)
Answer: Jean Francois Pitatre De Rozier and a nobleman, the Marquis D'Arlands, on November 21, 1783, in a balloon designed by Etienne and Joseph Montgolfier.
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