Wright Brothers First Flight, 1903 - A Day That Shook The World [HD]

[jellynoodles100]

like if you saw the dog

[82ndairborne100]

look at what we have now, 12 hour flights and mid-air refueling! Thank you wright brothers!

[reineves]

This video was make in 1908, in Europe, 2 years after Dumont flight. . Not in 1903.

[TheBlueArcher]

@bijoukaiba

Curing cancer...?

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[wesker40977]

history heroes.

[RJLorran]

The farce of the wright brother

[zarkorandje]

am I the only one who came here after watching epic rap battles of history

[Dylan94]

This reminds me of one of those videos i would watch at school.

[LikeTheGuyBill]

Mario brothers is better ;D lol ;D

[BARUNIZ]

Santos Dummont was the first to fly with a plane. WB catapulted out that crap. And Santos did the first fly with a motor-based plane in front of thousand of people in the France. Do planes today are based in catapults or in their motors? Fact.

[TheMPGgang]

@BARUNIZ Yes but the wright bros came up with the mechanics with out them Dummont could have never flew a plane

[BARUNIZ]

@TheMPGgang They didn't have any contact with Europe that time and the machanics behind Santos' plane flew by itself (In front of thousand of people) and not from some crap catapult. The model is totally different with others dynamics, go search some source i won't waste my time, WB 'glider' could only barely do curves.

[TheMPGgang]

@BARUNIZ Ok i didnt think of it that way tnx for the info

[BARUNIZ]

@TheMPGgang Btw Facts =/= Thinking

[pandurate]

@BARUNIZ Any way you slice it, the first European flight was in late 1906, three years after the WB success. Both groups made important contributions. Only idiots get bogged down in nationalistic nonsense and overlook the fact that even their pet favorite relied on developments made by others before him.

[BARUNIZ]

@pandurate Are you american?

[BARUNIZ]

@pandurate Btw I didn't want to sound like a nationalist freak, I kind just got angry cuz they keep denying the facts because they know of it. And in the end, all the arguing in a comment section on youtube won't change any reality or point of view. Cheers

[pandurate]

@BARUNIZ No worries. I realized after your first response that my own comment was poorly worded, and open to misinterpretation.

[trouzerpants]

"Richard William Pearse (3 December 1877 – 29 July 1953), son of Cornish immigrants from St Columb near Newquay, a New Zealand farmer and inventor who performed pioneering experiments in aviation.

According to witness statements, Pearse flew and landed a powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, some nine months before the Wright brothers flew their aircraft." - Wiki

Others too have claimed first flight..

[singularwave]

If I ruled the world all momentous historical events would be replayed to frivolous piano music.

[maddogmike87]

december 17 is my b-day

[johnthescout]

I appreciate the seriousness of the comments, that's refreshing, but in all seriousness I just came from the Wright Bros. vs. Mario Bros. rap battle. :)

[semli]

With an catapult until stones flies up!

[wb1136]

0:23

[316pikachu]

ESTE VIDEO ME GUSTA SU ANTIGUEDAD Y POR QUE FUE EL PRIER AVION GRACIAS POR EL VIDEO

[TheVitaltundra]

Us took the prize for first flight, so that's how it will be for the rest of history, besides, the Wright Bros. are more awesome. AMERICA!

[alekzander2010]

French/Brazil:"Been their done that...."

[alekzander2010]

Santos Dummont Hipster

Flying before it was cool

>.>

[E6ABHnavy]

I was rounding, if you wanna get technical, 92 years later we had f18 super hornets. I was just saying how amazing and fast the evolution of flying machines has come. Smarty pants.

[Pickuptruckdude]

happy anniversary! 108 years today

[SupernalOne]

You know what impressed me when I visited the Wright Museum at Kitty Hawk - the fact that when the Bros. needed a powerplant, they designed their own motor and SAND-CAST THE ENGINE BLOCK THEMSELVES!! Making an internal combusion engine from scratch is pretty damn handy if you ask me - not even to consider their homemade windtunnel - astonishing !

[peeteey]

This is a common misconception. The first powered flight was made by a New Zealander a year earlier.

Richard Pearse, Waitohi, New Zealand, March 31, 1902

Like most Kiwi inventions and achievements, it was not really reported until as late as 1909 and not generally known until quite recently. By then, the Wright brothers had claimed the prize and become known for it.

Hard to correct history once it has been written.

[E6ABHnavy]

100 years later we have f18 super hornets. Amazing

[MiguelSaavedraQuijon]

I support the Wright Bros as first men to fly, but this is NOT 1903 footage, only 4 flights were made on dec 17th, 1903 before the original flyer was damaged, and no one of them was recorded. The machine on the video is the Flyer II, from 1904.

The oiginal flyer was able to take off and fly by itself. The catapult system was used on further models as a way to increase the acceleration even more, being able to lift heavier machines in shorter distances.

[MiguelSaavedraQuijon]

@MiguelSaavedraQuijon I correct myself. the machine on the images is a two-seater, so it's a even later model.

[A1n3dr5e1234567890]

This plane on the video is not the original flyer. It is another model, much more powerfull, and still not able to take off by own power. This video was made much time later after 14-bis flew . It is amazing how the history can be manipulated ! The real thing is, the Brazilian Santos Dumont was the first one to fly :-)

[shanana0z420]

they shit bricks at 1:38

[Vuretas]

they all jizzed at 1:38

[ricksk81993]

Santos Dumont was the first one to fly an engine airplane with its own impulse in 12 november 1906, the 14-Bis, which won the french airclub contest and reconigzed as the first one to fly an engined boosted airplane , NOT WRIGHT BROTHERS, they were the first ones to fly an NON ENGINE airplane, boosted by a take-off ramp, really, i dont see no airplanes nowadays taking off in a ramp, sorry, SANTOS WINS! FATHER OF AVIATION!

[bphatboyjohn123]

@ricksk81993 well no shit they needed something to boost it, no one had ever flown before, geez, lmao, they were in the air first, and it had an engine but not a big one, lol, santos had 3 years to make a bigger engine, from their design to fly

[Melvinyoriel]

for one moment i though they were going to crash-land xD

[AbdulRButt]

Thank you so much for uploading such historical and inspiring videos :D

[pieisgood13]

This is a really interesting YouTube Channel, some really cool stuff.

[ShinjiTomi]

Santos Dummont ftw

[anarkey42]

i bet they were shitting themselves about landing :)

[inkey2]

is this documentary right? The first motorized flight by the wright brothers was 12 seconds long, thats what I keep reading,,,,,,,not "for more than a minute" as stated in this video. My question is.....why was it only 12 seconds? Did they run out of gas?........was it very hard to manuver and had to be landed? Anyone know?

[TheCsopso]

Actualy Wright brothers are not the first peoples to fly because in 1632 a man could Hezarfen jumped from Galata tower by a material like bird wings and he flied from galata tower and land on Dogancılar Hall,I can say that he passed the istanbul boshphorus by just a material like wings.But many people thiks that no body flied with wing before or Wright brothers was first to fly.Please share this with friends and help everyone to know this.

[inkey2]

@TheCsopso surely most americans know that the wright brothers were the first in "motorized, controlled flight" and not the first to fly. But the phrase "controlled, motorized flight" is important because anyone can jump off a cliff with wings strapped to their arms but it is entirely another thing to steer it in any direction you please and "stay in the air"

[jason4485]

Always one reason I'm proud to be a North Carolinian!

[thormentamaioral]

santos dumont é o inventor do avião... o 14bis

[bijoukaiba]

1:38 Can you imagine what that must have been like, witnessing two men flying for the very first time? Or even when the first men went into outer space?? There are a lot of elements of history I wish I could have witnessed.

Maybe I'll be around when they invent a cure for cancer or HIV, or 'hover cars', or maybe even discovering alien life forms, possibly even intelligent ones (hey, you never know).

[blueflame53]

@bijoukaiba very cool comment man,who knows what we'll witness..

[b20monty]

@bijoukaiba this same thought runs through my head every night , see you in the future man

[Dailybabble]

@bijoukaiba That's going to be me someday. :) 

[eb62224]

@bijoukaiba or pizza that taste like vomit

[ftlptba]

@bijoukaiba lets hope so,even though our generation has witnessed already plenty of extraordinary things,mainly technological,we have developed at least 60% more from the previous ones!

[McLarenMercedes]

@bijoukaiba

Hate to nitpick but they saw men flying around in balloons when the Montgolfier brothers flew in 1783. They could take off and land at will, although controlling where the balloon flew was naturally the wind decided.

Using the "lighter-than-air" principle men flew with early "dirigibles" (small airships/blimps) which used propellers to give them control in the air. Santos Dumont rounded the Eiffel Tower in 1901, but he was hardly the first, just the most successful.

[McLarenMercedes]

@bijoukaiba

The German Otto Lilienthal ("The Glider King") did over 2000 flights in the 1890's using the "heavier-than-air" principle and eventually glided as long as 350meter (1150 ft) in 1893. The Wright Brothers admired Otto Lilienthal and he was an inspiration to their own project.

The Wright Brothers were first with the "motorized flight" using a heavier-than-air design. Also their way to control the flight was without peer.

They weren't the first men to "fly".

[testtest123ful]

@bijoukaiba Technically, we know how to make a hover car (A vehicle that has a force pushing itself up that is equal to the force pushing us down), but we dont have the technology. Also, if the alien is at all smart, to get its food lets say, its intelligent. But I get what you mean :P

Im an asshole.

[tonyzwlu]

Have you ever heard of Santos Dummont?

[356butch]

@tonyzwlu Yes, he was a gentleman who clammed to be the first to fly however it was several years after the Wright Bros flew and most of his work was a copy of the Wright Bros glider work. His aircraft was not very aerodynamic and the turns were long drawn out skidding affairs. When the Wrights flew in 1908 everyone knew that they had mastered the art. Dummont however could never bring himself to admit he had been bested.

[ftlptba]

@tonyzwlu no

[CanterburyAtheists]

HISTORY LESSON: The first person to build and fly a heavier-than-air machine was the New Zealander Richard Pearce who flew 9 months before The Wright Brothers. The Wright Brothers were the first people to perform what is called ‘controlled’ flight. The first person to actual build & fly a mechanised plane was Richard Pearce.

[LazlosPlane]

@CanterburyAtheists Nope. Fact is, you can go back throughout history and find examples similar to this. In the early eleventh century, for instance, a monk (appropriately) named Eilmer flew more than 600 feet with a heavier than air vehicle. No one cares about uncontrolled flight. I can do that off my balcony. Pearce? NOT.

[Magnetsinmyback]

207 years.... i might die twice before.

[TheMackiable]

@Magnetsinmyback think u mean 107