[andy0x2a]

according to the first paragraph of TFA, the first flight was 9 weeks after the 1903 article was published

[Kon-Peki]

But that doesn’t really matter. They sent out a press release after Kitty Hawk; newspapers refused to publish it. Some instead published articles making fun of them.

Nobody believed them until 1908ish, when they flew over crowds in France and could no longer be ignored.