For brazilians, history was written differently

"On 17 December 1903, the Wright brothers, in the USA, made use of a rudimentary catapult (with an inclined plan) to throw into the air their Flyer biplane, having flown close to the ground for a short hop of 40 metres (in subsequent flights they managed to fly for 200 metres). Santos-Dumont, however, would be the first to build and fly an aircraft 'heavier-than-the-air' by its own means of propulsion."
HISTORY OF THE BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE