This is Charles Page, he is the man who first pioneered the airplane. Page’s conceptual groundwork was laid before the Wright brothers, decades earlier, as he crafted designs for a flying machine. Charles Page in fact patented his design in April of 1903, and was granted the patent April of 1906. He planned to enter his plane into a competition at the world fair in 1904, but the aircraft never arrived. The Wright brothers flew their design for a plane in December 1903.