THE VIDEO SHELF · history of aviation
The Wright Brothers DID Invent the Airplane
A long rebuttal arguing that the Wright Brothers truly invented the airplane, responding to other YouTubers who credit others. It walks through the engineering breakthroughs the Wrights achieved, such as control and wind tunnel work.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters use it as a well-researched account of what the Wrights actually solved, in threads on airplane physics and invention credit.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles
- Topic
- history of aviation
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2023–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Control was an almost completely unaddressed issue before the Wrights took it up, even though it is also crucial to useful glider development. This video has a nice delineation of the collection of breakthroughs needed: [VIDEO]
mcarmichael on Hacker News · 2024-07
In The physics of airplane flightCheck out Gregs Airplanes and Automobiles for really well researched aeronautic docs. He made one specifically about the Wrights [VIDEO]
dj_gitmo on Hacker News · 2025-03
In The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you're in Brazil
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