text: The first working areoplane was built by Orville and Wilbur Wright, the Wright Brothers.  However many unsucessful aeroplanes had been designed earlier by a number of inventors going back centuries.  \nFlying machines have been theorised since classical antiquity.  The legendary inventor Daedalus invented a flying harness which allowed him and his son, Icharus, to fly... until Icharus flew too high and melted the wax in the wings and fell to his doom!