What historical figures are you curious about? Would you like to meet them?

@CSKA_Moscou said in #30:
> it was just to say that it has always been anchored in the human unconscious: the fascination of reaching a metaphysical ideal by getting closer to the sky and its functions and symbolism. therefore, there were centuries of unsuccessful attempts before arriving at lighter than air (hot air balloon, 18th century) and heavier than air (late 19th, Clement Ader). what is interesting is to see the evolution of these attempts to fly: first putting feathers on the arms to imitate birds, (the design, the structure), using sails and fabrics, (the matter), try to create a flying boat, (the structure), use gas, (propulsion), create an engine, (another mode of locomotion), until arriving at a perfect form which combines all these elements or which manages to do without it thanks to alternatives
Well, I said to not waste your time in typing all of this, but thanks, since I understand now.
> try to create a flying boat
Yes, the classic old seaplanes, especially the russian class seaplane built for military purposes. sadly it only flew 16ft into the air before landing on the water again. But the first thing which came in my mind was Rolls Royce Boat Tail, even though its neither a true boat nor a true aircraft, just a car.

@AyaanshGaur12 said in #11:
> Я хотел бы встретиться с Махатмой Ганди и узнать, что происходило у него на уме, когда он принимал решение о разделе Индии.
> Я хотел бы встретиться с братьями Райт и увидеть, как они боролись за создание современного самолета, так как они боролись ОЧЕНЬ сильно.
> Я хотел бы встретиться с американскими президентами до и во время Гражданской войны в США.
Махатма Ганди, как он стал бескомпромиссным вождём.

@morphyms1817 said in #1:
> I would meet Ben Franklin, he was interested in many things like inventing, politics and chess. I would like to be a fly on the wall during a Thomas Edison board meeting.
Meet a certain Austrian painter and buy his painting.

To make sure we are all on the same page, the Wright Brothers didn't invent human flight, and didn't claim to do so.

There were "aeronauts" going up in hot air balloons in the 1700s. Before that, DaVinci drew up plans for a rather impractical, but-on-the-right-track, helicopter.

And people attained winged flight using gliders, well before the Wright Brothers' first flight.

What the Wrights did was come up with sustained, self-powered winged flight for the first time. It was a feat of engineering more than it was a feat of invention. But it was nevertheless quite a feat.

It was just a start, however, and others soon greatly refined the way aircraft could be controlled.

What it DID do was set off a race to create better and better airplane engines and control methods, and the ensuing progress happened with startling speed.

It wasn't long before pilots were able to fly long distances and start shooting down other aircraft. I do not recommend the later. Although, admittedly, flying a single-engine jet is the finest thing any person can achieve in our short lives. Although speaking Hungarian would be pretty impressive, too.

i would like to meet Capablanca ,Maradona and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Tesla.

@Wik1tor said in #32:
> Махатма Ганди, как он стал бескомпромиссным вождём.
Да, он действительно был бескомпромиссным лидером, и именно поэтому его считают отцом индийской нации.

@pretzelattack1 said in #36:
> Tesla.

as much as the inventor is brilliant, his person was terrible

@Noflaps said in #34:
> To make sure we are all on the same page, the Wright Brothers didn't invent human flight, and didn't claim to do so.
What you said is true. But, let me just say that neither me, nor anyone else, said that they "invented" human flight or "claimed to invent human fight".
I stated that they invented "aircraft", the first ever flying ones, by which I mean literal planes and not simply flight. And about claiming to invent it, I said that the first-ever plans of making an plane were released by several other people and an Indian made a working plane (or model) before the Wright brothers made thiers, when he was in his teens, I think in the 1860s.

W.A.Mozart, he was not only funny and full of jokes, but he liked also dogs (he once wrote a funny poem about a dog born in Vienna). And of course he was a great composer.