Sylvester's Warbird is the first ever aircraft to ever be made.
created by a Newspaper enthusiast, Martin Sheril Sylvester, when he signed up his, at the time, "Flying Machine" to an invention-fest, there were certainly some skepticism, but all of those were blown away when Sylvester's Flying Machine took off.
The countries of the world shortly tried to buy the Flying machine and stick guns onto it.

1905, Age of Industry. That year, Sylvester went from random man who liked newspapers to a billionaire.
Martin S. Sylvester was born in the Kingdom of Enguria, 1889, age of Steam.
He always liked the morning newspaper, when it was first introduced to the lower class in the year 1896, and has made a point to all he knows to buy,read and keep every newspaper to ever exist. In the local area, at least.
When he had dreams of flight, he gathered all he can from the newspapers he read on previous attempts on flight.
Then made a draft.
4 wings forward stuck together, the lower one slightly behind the upper one.
another 3 wings behind the cockpit, 2 to control up and down motion and the other to provide left and right motion.
The frame itself is made of wood and newspaper (would you believe) held together with the industrial marvel known as glue.
When glue couldn't help, he tied it together with rope.
The engine was actually a tractor engine, which he then stuck a propeller on, as he was inspired by the another great industrial marvel. The Windmill. Instead of catching the wind to create power, it instead pushes. Taking note on how ship propellers were made, he did similar with his engine's prop.
When the frame was completed he lined string across the insides of it, to connect to the Rear wings. Later that day, he was watching birds and took note that they would turn their entire bodies if they wanted to turn.
So, he redid his front wings to include ailerons.
When everything was connected, he had his dog, Bob fly it.
It worked Marvelously.
And so, the first plane to ever fly was piloted by a dog.

This picked up when the countries of the world bought and redesigned the frame to something more sensible than mere newspaper.
Fitted with thin Aluminium sheets, and a steel airframe, and an improved engine, the Warbird was born.
When test flights with mock battles were being overseen, the pilots referred to their bouts as "Dogfighting" the reason they stated to their commander was because they were reminded that a dog first flew a plane, and their manner of battle is rather similar to a dog chasing its tail.

There was one problem with Sylvester's Warbird. It is nigh impossible to safely land. Taking off was enough difficulty for this thing, as it would slide off to the side before wobbling into the air. The standard procedure to land it is to come back as slow as possible, then bail out as close as possible to the runway.
The frame is sturdy enough to survive the impact, but the prop has to be replaced every time.