do you know who invented the airplane?

no, it was not the wright brothers

after all, a catapult isn't an engine

it was

alberto santos-dumont, from brazil

http://www.aeroportoguarulhos.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/santos-dumont.jpg

santos-dumont's airplane, the 14-bis, took off by itself, without the help of some catapult thingy

and he was such an awesome motherfucker, his birth town of palmira, minas gerais was actually renamed to santos-dumont

i rest my case