People had been flying in small airships, but there was a race on to make the first successful aeroplane. The Wright Brothers were the first people to invent a practial aeroplane that could be flown under full control. Their first flight took place in 1903 at Kitty Hawk in the United States. The Wright biplane looked like a huge box kite, with a home-made engine that drove two propellers by means of chains. It was however a practical and successful aircraft as it flew and it was controllable, unlike an earlier steam-powered aeroplane flown in 1890 by Clément adler in France.
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Frank Whittle designed the first true jet engine between 1928 and 1930, but it was not used to fly a jet aircraft until 1941. A German engineer, Hans von Ohain, began work on a similar jet engine in 1936. His engine had flown a Heinkel aircraft by the year 1939.
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