Claims to the first airplane flight

Several aviators are proposed as the first to fly a powered aeroplane. Much controversy surrounds these claims. It is generally accepted today in the United States and other countries that the Wright Brothers were the first to achieve sustained, controlled, powered heavier-than-air manned flight in 1903. In Brazil, native citizen Alberto Santos-Dumont is widely accepted as the airplane inventor.

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