Sport Gliding in the 1920's

[032490mf]

I guess seat belts hadn't yet been invented

[jeep200000]

Thanks for the vid, I found it very interesting. its amazing how many old vids are out there, thank you for sharing this with us.

[alfredsson]

Damn, Must been one thrill of adrenaline

[TheScouic]

super ces engins..

[jimmywrangles]

oops.

[TheCanine2]

Amazing footage!

[airedaledk]

These guys had guts!

[gliderrider]

Wow! Where do you guys come up with these old reals? Treasures! Thanks for sharing them with us.

[vtecivicsib18]

extremely annoying music and black and white wtf, those idiots are out of date in the pic but na this aint 1920s maybe the 1990s you morons.

[poprock4me]

nice and good

[47thMIU]

Did that guy actually die?

[archerrobinhood]

i guess, he fell from like 30 metres

[vidsee]

@47thMIU I guess that's what fatal end means.

[Motoguzzi750]

Great video mate! Puts in pictures what you will find in Anne Welch "The Story Of Gliding".

[FK0960]

Ist ein spitzen Video

[hangarrat101]

I am glad i am learning to fly now rather than then, although the schulgleiter at 6:00 does look like fun!

most of the others just look downright scary!

[Tubes12AX7k]

Facinating newsreel. I like that line "reminiscent of the earliest aviators"...

[wmklemp]

The part of this video, the original movie part taken by A. Fokker in England is of a glider known as "Blaue Maus" designed and manufactured by my father, Wolfgang Klmeperer. Wolfgang was not the pilot of the flight being shown. That was a Brit, whose name I have somewhere in my files. He was the only purchaser of a Blue Mouse coming out of a factory in Aachen, Germany and had to wait long for delivery. He took off, flew, and crashed the landing. Ldg not shown. Never flew again!

[GREEROPS]

Very impressive. Some downright scary designs there.. at least one in he beginning looked like the type that killed Otto Lilienthal in 1896

[kathryn807]

Did you live in the 1920's?

[2775754raf]

There is a good write-up of the 1922 Itford competition in Terence Boughton's book "The Story of the British Light Aeroplane" published by John Murray 1963. These clips bring the story to life.

Great stuff BG

[twinten]

The logo in the lower righthand corner is a little too prominent.

[Bomberguy]

No more so than the logo it is hiding

[denberg2]

Keep 'em coming, Bomberguy!