Who was the first ever pilot?

Question

Who was the first ever pilot?

Answer 1

Pontius!

Answer 2

Who was the first airplane pilot?

There a many different answers to this question. A lot of it depends on how far back you go, how far they flew and whether powered by an engine.

In 1849 Englishman George Cayley built a gliding machine that made a short flight with a 10-year old boy aboard. In 1853, he flew a larger model with his coachman onboard. George Cayley is widely considered as the inventor of the science of aerodynamics.

The German engineer Otto Lilienthal was the first person to build and have repeated success with a glider in 1891. Visit the Otto Lilienthal Museum.

Most people agree that the first significant powered flight was by Orville Wright (of the Wright Brothers) on December 17, 1903.

Some claim that the first was the German Karl Jatho, who built and flew a powered machine in Hanover on August 28, 1903 (4 months earlier) but he did not get very far off the ground or cover much distance. FlyingMachines.org has details of several flying machines before the Wright Brothers.

Answer 3

For powered flight it was Gustave Whitehead. He never received the credit he deserved.

Answer 4

I don't know much about pilots,

but i guess that it should be wright brothers!!

Answer 5

GOD. Praise the Almighty Lord for he is everything, the earth, the wind the fire, the pilots. Even the psychotic murder behind you!