WI: Succesful Plane Invented Later

So here is a possible alternate history and I want to know what you think would happen if it played out like this. What if during the first test flight of the plane with Wilbur and Orville Wright the plane crashes and kills them both leading to a successful plane being invented later (No specific amount of time later)
 
Santos Dumont makes the first plane flight with actual witnesses and there are no Wright Brothers alive to claim they did it first (when none was looking), which is probably great for Brazilian prestige.
 
For starters, you'll have to pick a different POD as only Orville was on the first flight and it flew at a blistering ~7 mph, making a deadly crash about as likely as a leisurely bike ride. But as juanml said, there were others working on airplanes at the time who would have received credit instead. Killing off the Wrights won't delay aviation by a considerable amount.
 
most of the groundwork was already done in germany by Otto lilienthal

and at the time of the wrights, there were other busy trying to fly

you have gustave whitehead (gustave weißkopf) who probably did the first flight
and there is samuel Langley.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_flying_machines

making the first successful flight earlier is pretty easy, delaying it much longer will take a lot of effort
 
For starters, you'll have to pick a different POD as only Orville was on the first flight and it flew at a blistering ~7 mph, making a deadly crash about as likely as a leisurely bike ride. But as juanml said, there were others working on airplanes at the time who would have received credit instead. Killing off the Wrights won't delay aviation by a considerable amount.

Or speed it up, even.

Without the Wright's Patent Wars, aviation would have accelerated in the US after controlled flight is a done deed.

The way to off the Wrights would be to have a train derailment between Ohio and North Carolina when they were doing glider flights.
 
Santos Dumont makes the first plane flight with actual witnesses and there are no Wright Brothers alive to claim they did it first (when none was looking), which is probably great for Brazilian prestige.

I believe this is the part where I say that Richard Pearse flew the first plane not the Americans, Brazilians or the Germans but the New Zealanders. Then I believe that the thread devolves into nationalist dickwaving and pointless arguments.
 
Would be interesting if you could delay the invention of powered flight long enough so that the technology is still too primitive in WW1 for airplanes to play the kind of role they did in OTL. I wonder how that would have affected history?
 
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