Was the plane invented by Germans?

Some Germans have different views on this. They think that before the Wright brothers, at least two Germans had already flown in their own planes.

The first German was Gustav Viskorf. Viskorf was born in Leighthausen, Germany. There is still a Gustav Viskorf Museum in this city to commemorate Viskorf, who claimed to be the first inventor of the airplane. According to the museum, Gustav Wiskoff, who immigrated to the United States, successfully flew into the sky in Connecticut on August 190 14. This day was not only one and a half years earlier than the Wright brothers, but also the flight time was four minutes, much longer than the Wright brothers. However, unlike Wright's airplane test with photos, there is no photo to prove that Viskorf made an airplane and conducted a flight test on it. In this regard, the Gustav Viskorf Museum retorted that the photos of the Wright brothers "were also released a year later, and we should treat them with the same scale." Gustav Viskorf's supporters said that one of the important reasons why Viskorf's invention was not taken seriously was that Gustav Viskorf was dissatisfied with his success and didn't take it seriously, thinking that the flight time was too short to be considered as human beings really flying in the sky.

However, some Germans don't believe Viskorf. 200 1 The author of a book published in Nia said that Gustav Viskorf was considered a braggart at that time. For example, he claimed to have flown 10 km at 1902, but he didn't take any photos because of the bad weather. Don't say this flight distance is a bit outrageous for the technical level at that time, only that people later checked the weather forecast at that time and found that Gustav Viskorf claimed that the weather was fine, not bad.

Another German who is said to have invented the airplane before the Wright brothers is Carl Yato from Hanover. It is said that he flew into the sky in the summer of 1903 with his own three-wing plane. A Hanover municipal official wrote in his diary at that time, "1On August 8, 903, an airplane successfully flew at an altitude of 3/4 meters 18 meters. Today is really a good day. " In June of the same year 165438+ 10, that is, about a month before the Wright brothers' experiment, Carl Yato's plane flew 60 meters at an altitude of 3 meters, but compared with the Wright brothers' plane later, Carl Yato's plane was much heavier and unstable, so as Carl Yato himself wrote in his diary: "Although it has been practiced many times,