Ingenuity Mars-Copter: The Greatest Flying Machine Ever.
The Ingenuity Mars-Copter, launched by NASA, is being hailed as the greatest aircraft ever to fly, surpassing the Wright Flyer I, the first aircraft to fly on Earth. The Wright Flyer I was unstable and had no ailerons, while the Ingenuity Mars-Copter is equipped with advanced avionics, sensors, and camera arrays. It has a lightweight airframe and carbon-fiber rotors that cut through the thin Martian atmosphere with precision. The Ingenuity probe has spent more than an hour and a half in powered flight over 51 attempts so far, while the Wright Flyer I only flew for roughly 98 seconds total over four flights.