Orville maybe but that damned Wilbur...what a slacker!

If they hadn't done it, someone else would probably have figured it out within the next 10 years or so. But there's no guarantee that they would have, and if flight had been delayed for several years, it's likely that things would have gone a little differently in the last 100 years or so. So I'll give them 4 stars considering how important flight is to today's society.

What about Orville Redenbacher? The popcorn genius

we need planes

Thanks to them it only takes about 10 hours with a layover to get to Hawaii.

It's a good thing they had invented a new form of transportation by air. It was definitely risky because of all of the testing they had to do with their creation.

Powered flight is pretty important...

They were mildly important, but there are far more important people out there. They may have been the first to fly, but they certainly weren't the most successful. IMO, they are seriously overrated in their importance. It was an inevitability, with so many people trying to fly at the time. Their plane wasn't even that good of a design.

I'm torn a bit here, thinking that maybe they deserve a 4, but I just can't quite do it. Certainly important, but I think there are far more important figures here.