NO IT DOESN'T.
The Wrights created the first successful powered, human-piloted, heavier-than-air craft. Someone else already had beat them to the punch on powered, human-piloted lighter-than-air craft, powered un-piloted heavier-than-air craft, and unpowered, human-piloted heavier-than-air craft.
But the king mac daddy, the first true "aircraft" (carrying a human passenger), was the Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon in 1783.
Orville and Wilbur didn’t invent heavier than air flight, although they experimented heavily with gliders and kites. In that effort, they built upon a foundation laid by others.
They didn’t invent engines powerful enough to lift themselves. They outsourced the engine development.
Orville and Wilbur invented 3-axis control. Without that, powered, heavier than air, manned flight is impossible.
And that is why they were “first in flight”.
“”History credits Orville and Wilbur Wright for flying the world’s first aircraft....
NO IT DOESN’T.
The Wrights created the first successful powered, human-piloted, heavier-than-air craft... “
That credit actually goes to Gustave Whitehead who successfully flew a powered airplane in August of 1901 (without the ‘weight and derrick’ system used by the Wrights to gain forward momentum).
The Wright Flyer is on loan to the Smithsonian from a British museum ‘as long as no previously flown aircraft is known.’ So don’t think the Smithsonian will ever investigate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Whitehead