In the 20th century, there were many finds of golden airplanes throughout South America (Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, etc.). Then, in the burials, golden figurines of animals were found, although this was believed only initially.
It was assumed that these are decorations, the age was determined at about 1500 years of each such "aircraft", in total 33 of them were found, and their dimensions are very small 5 centimeters or a little more.
Emanuel Staub was the very first person who noticed that it turned out that animal figures looked like airplanes. And this is how the whole interesting story began, which later acquired a large scale.
During detailed studies of the figures, it was found that although they have a varied appearance, the design itself is always the same.
During the research, specialists, including several aviation experts, found out that such a figurine not only looks like an airplane in appearance, but also has many technical similarities. Moreover, experts said that such an aircraft could very well fly.
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After all this, of course, there were many questions, and the media around the world wrote about airplanes created already 1,500 years ago. But no one officially recognized this and still does not recognize it.
Now comes the fun part. After 1969, many began to forget about the Inca planes, but only in 1996 model aircraft from Germany proved that these were not just zoomorphic figures, but real planes, created long before the official creation of the plane in the 19th century.
In 1996, men assembled replicas of the Inca planes, with the same proportions and elements, only 16 times larger, and as surprising as it was to everyone, they took off.
The aircraft could perform various aerobatics and were in no way worse than modern aircraft. But it is worth remembering that they were created 1500 years ago, which means that even then they knew about airplanes and this is a fact.
In addition, back in the 30s of the XX century, on the Nazca plateau, pilots from a fairly high altitude noticed several strange and long lines, very similar to modern runways.
In general, not only in theory, but also in practice, it was proved that in the past they knew not only the image, but also the exact design for the aircraft that will fly, and all this was at least 1.5 thousand years ago.
But I have more doubt that they were the Incas, since historians attribute everything to them. Most likely, it was a different, rather developed civilization, but the fact is that in the past, airplanes could exist.
But as I think, many have guessed, even after the experiment, these aircraft were not recognized by the official history, even though they flew. That is, scientists simply ignored 100% of the evidence for the existence of flying vehicles in the past. But the fact remains that the civilizations of the past were capable of this.
