Organization Claims Korea Built Airplane 300 Years Before the Wright Brothers

At best this so called airplane looks more like hang-glider which the Koreans do not even have any physical or design evidence to support its existence:

This Yonhap file photo shows the model of
This Yonhap file photo shows the model of “Bicha,” a plane allegedly built by military officer Jeong Pyeong-gu during the Japanese invasion of Korea (1592-98). It is displayed at the Air Force Museum in Cheongju, 137 kilometers south of Seoul. (Yonhap)

Korea had built an airplane 300 years ahead of the Wright brothers, although none of the ancient plane or its design has been left, the head of an organization to restore the ancient plane, an activist claimed Thursday.

“Korea is the origin of the flying aircraft. We should perfectly restore the plane to get recognition of it worldwide,” Kim Dong-min, chairman of the Jinju Bicha Restoration Commitee, said at a seminar in Jinju, 434 kilometers southeast of Seoul.  [Yonhap]

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Flyingsword
Flyingsword
8 years ago

Is it a glider?

Smokes
Smokes
8 years ago

Asian or dare I say Oriental culture in general is jam funkin packed with so many significant achievements I don’t know why they insist on coming up with bull5h1t like this.

Korea is no more the birthplace of the airplane than China is the birthplace of the spaceship:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Hu

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
8 years ago

That’s nothing.

The ancient Egyptians invented the attack helicopter.

http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/helicopter1.jpg

setnaffa
Reply to  Flyingsword
8 years ago

Or just a big kite?

Smokes
Smokes
Reply to  ChickenHead
8 years ago

Heh is that a legit photo? There appears to be a spaceship there as well.

Andy
Andy
8 years ago

Trying ti steal credit from the Wright brothers….Ain’t that a bicha.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
8 years ago

Ancient Egyptians, coincidently enough, also invented the Gloster E.28/39.

MTB Rider
MTB Rider
8 years ago

What none of you realize is that I invented all of that, ages ago. Right after I invented a Time Machine. I own the most prestigious Patent Number: #1
😎 😎 😎

NoSpam
NoSpam
8 years ago

Almost 25 years ago, a girl-friend and I visited JinJu Castle’s museum, which is largely about the Hideyoshi invasion of 1592 (read about the sacrifice elsewhere). Being a history buff, I asked her to please translate the inscriptions on the monuments as we walked around. After all these years, I still remember that she said something to the effect of, some people flew away on wings and escaped. I asked her if she was sure that’s what the inscription said. Her answer was, yes.

At the time I wondered, was is on a crude glider, or just a glide line, or a combination of both? But my girlfriend certainly did not imagine the Korean word for “wings” on the inscription. I’d never heard her use that word, before that day.

Was the pic above the glider? Doubt it. It’s spars look too flimsy to me to hold one or two people.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
8 years ago

“I own the most prestigious Patent Number: #1”

Well, Sam, I will inquire about your licensing fees if I ever need to make pot ash.

Ire
Ire
3 years ago

And yet they forgot about the existence of Leonardo Da Vinci’s more than 100 flying machine’s designs, that have been preserved, while there is no design or model of that supposedly korean first “airplane”… They only found in some old document about that story where someone supposedly flied away during the japanese occupation at the end of the 16th century -Joseon era- (100years after Leonardo’s designs anyway). And yet there are articles, even in national newspapers claiming S.Korea as the inventor…

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