Alberto Santos-Dumont
Then Santos-Dumont decided to work on heavier-than-air flying machines, which people call airplanes or aeroplanes today.  In the fall of 1906, he tried to fly his biplane, the Santos-Dumont 14-bis in a field outside Paris.  Experts disagree on exactly what counts as flying and what is only a hop in the air, so perhaps his first flight was on September 13 when the 14-bis stayed in the air for a short distance or perhaps it was in October when it flew for 50 meters, but everyone agrees that Santos-Dumont did fly in the fall of 1906.  On November 12, 1906, outside Paris, he flew the 14-Bis biplane for 220 meters (722 feet) outside Paris, 6 meters up in the air.  The 14-bis used a 50-horsepower internal combustion engine, meaning an engine that burned its own fuel inside itself instead of using steam.