Identifying the source of your supplied metals is the main purpose of Conflict Minerals Compliance. A Smelter is the first stop for raw materials once they have been mined or recycled by the provider.
The first airplane to take flight was built by the Wright brothers  in Ohio USA and was transported first to North Carolina and flown  for its first time there.
Gustave Whitehead invented and flew the  world's first airplane in 1901, at Fairfield, CT. His monoplane,  called No. 21 or the Condor, was based on Count D'Esterno's and  Otto Lilienthal's designs.  The brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright were two Americans who are  gener â¦ ally credited with inventing and building the world's first  successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and  sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on 17 December  1903 in Kitty Hawk, NC on December 17, 1903.