The Wright brothers were superseded by Glenn Curtiss and many French companies within a few years after their invention of the airplane became well known.
As a side note, Wright airplanes had a horrible, non-intuitive user interface. Many people died in their products.
Though they were quite brilliant at solving the fundamental aero problems. :-)
Many claim Santos Du Mont did it first ;)
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He did it first.
My understanding is that he was not able to get an airplane into the air until 1906. By then the Wrights were flying circles and staying up for 30 minutes at a time. :-)
