What country was the airplane invented in?

What country was the airplane invented in?
The Wright Brothers of the United States were the first successful powered flight.
the most straightforward answer would be Kittyhawk, in the USA, where the wright brothers built the first successful powered flying machine. however, many french pioneers had been trying unsuccessfully for a number of years, many of them losing their lives in the process. furthermore, if you count the aeroplane as something that flies with or without power, man has been experimenting with all sorts of gliding contraptions since the first millennium, and Chinese emporer wan hu tried to fly by attatching many rockets to a chair, sometime around the 12 or 13th century. it simply exploded and killed him. going even further back, there is the greek legend of icarus, who flew with wings made of feathers and wax, but was killed when he flew too close to the sun, the wax melted and his wings fell apart