The Flying Men Who knows when a human first dreamed of flying like a bird . It is important to recognize flying, its effect on people and their communication has changed because of flight. I believe that the invention of airplanes just enhanced the way people communicate and how they relate. Literature as a form of communication, was one of the many things that was only improved by the invention of the airplane, because of several reasons. Who invented the airplane? Orville Wright (1871 - 1948) and Wilbur Wright (1867 - 1912) American airplane inventors, brothers. "Their interest in flying aroused by Lilienthal's glider flights of 1890's."(R