The History of Flight

[yocuzz100]

Check out the cat walking out of the room @3:32. That was the cat's Youtube debut.

[waynehere]

hope you got a A

[tsns1]

That was a tricky flight!

[grundgemonster]

Fab.

[optimastheblarg]

CATS

[StubHorn]

Awesome doc thx buddy.

22 people should show us how better their videos are, or just shut up.

[DuguesclinBZH]

What about Clement Ader with the first motorized flight in 1890 ?

[Sommo00]

6 un pazzo!

[therobnog]

@warp13 Part4: In my presentation, the Wrights only appear when Wilbur starts his demonstration flights at LeMans on 8Aug1908 and in this way, my audience got some feeling of the impact Wilbur had on those attending that day and they understood how, at first the French public and then the whole of the world was astonished and amazed at what these young Americans had acheived.

BearFlight 3 days ago

[505197]

Anyone else notice the two cats? LOL, the power of observation Watson. Nice presentation, bet you got a good grade.

[marcoriedi]

Wright Brothers had a controlled flight with a catapult under their assholes...Of couse Santos Dumont was the first to have a controlled flight...and it was with the 14-BIS. 

[eugeniobb]

@marcoriedi the flight of december 1903 was done without a catapult

[joey123joy]

Talking about Aviation without mentioning the FIRST PUBLIC FLIGHT EVER, seen by everyone, not only the pilots plus the manager, any History like that is FAULTY, because it is lacks the essence, but only shows a national pride without recognizing others. Santos-Dumont, a Brazilian citizen living in Paris did just that, he flew in 1906 in front of everyone. Only after that the Wright brothers told people that they had flown before, with the help of the wind and a catapult on a downslope level .

[matatan69]

@joey123joy , the wrights brother were indeed the first to fly. the catapult you mention was just an aid to spare runway length. Aircraft carrier use catapult as we speak for the same purpose. The Wrights invention was the first heavier than air flying device and the first flying device with complete control about its tree rotations axis. US Patent 821.393 submitted on 1903 proved the wrights were the first.

[therobnog]

@matatan69 Thomas Edison send a metal plate to santos dumont that said: to the pioneer of the air navigation. and was signed by Thomas Edison. Bill gates put a patent on windows that was not his. faceboock was also a stolen Idea.

[therobnog]

@matatan69 Thomas Edison send a metal plate to santos dumont that said: to the pioneer of the air navigation. and was signed by Thomas Edison. Bill gates put a patent on windows that was not his. faceboock was also a stolen Idea. that is not a photo or a film that prove the date, but Santos dumont was all over the news. Ask in Europe and 100% of the people would said: Santos Dumont.

[matatan69]

@joey123joy By 1903 Dumont was only flying balloons around Paris. In 1906 he tried to take to the air with his 14-Bis but only managed to make short kangaroo like hops. by throwing his 14-bis down a slope with a slope gradient greater than his falling speed, he managed to create the illusion of being in flight. Notably he always showed his attempts in terrain with down slopes and never made turns and never pitched his 14-Bis nose.

[matatan69]

@joey123joy The Wrights brother's demonstration in Paris made them instant heroes and Dumont was quickly forgotten by the same Parisians.Why was he forgotten? Because the Wrights did not make short hops but a truly controlled flight with complete control about the SIX ROTATIONAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM. Dumont was a Failure and later incorporated the Wright's patent into his models. because of this he was sued by the Wright brothers for patent infringement and lost. he hanged himself in 1932.

[porygonwarrior9000]

cool. We watched this in class today so I decided to check it out again. Nice job!

[bombokado]

Okay. Wht about the 14-Bis by Santos Dummont?

[armstrongariz]

super little video - well done.

[hillberg100]

Correction-1948 contract with Smithsonian" Everone"-Everyone.

[hillberg100]

You had a number of planes flying in 1903+-,In 1940 the Wrights made a contract for the display of the flyer,on condition that all other air plane flight information was supressed. ol Curtus was sued by the wrights as was everone who built early planes.Thank you Smithsonian

[pontepreta1965]

I totally agree with Perre Aguiar, also Dumont piloted the first ballon with as engine(Dirigible) arounf the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

[L19G65]

The Romanian inventor Traian Vuia made the first mechanical flight with ON-BORD MEANS ONLY in 18 March 1906 at Montesson ,France about half an year before Santos-Dumont.

[2boii]

thnx

[2boii]

thanx

[killerofporn]

the first airplane was made my brothers called mario and luigi

[Lucius1958]

What was not mentioned was that the Wrights made a contract with the Smithsonian: they would donate their Flyer, on condition that the Smithsonian would ignore any claims earlier to their own - for example, Gustave Whitehead's powered flights of 1901-2, which were well documented by eyewitness reports and affidavits.

[doggydeeds]

I thought the comintating was that of an older woman, anyway good video.

[esiosan]

Alberto Santos Dumont invented the airplane and was the father of human flight.

[jrusso7660]

Ryan

Hey, this video is very good. I'm sure you worked very hard and did a good amount of research.

I have to tell you that the reason early flight attempts failed is not solely based on the fact that human's arm muscles will never be as strong as birds. It's more about the structure of a bird's body and ours. Bird's bones are hollow and they're bodies are built for flight. Ours were not.

[PerreAguiar]

Insted of that, all the inventions of Santos Dumont were presented and demonstrated to the public (hundred of people) and the Bord of Evaluation from Fédération Aéronautique Internationale - FAI. Moreover, the US President, Mr. Clinton has already reconized by Adress Santos Dumont as the Father of aviation, the real inventor of the aircraft.

[predatortheme]

0:29 how the fuck?

[cjcapetv]

Check the flying child at 0:21 WOO YOU GO GIRL!!!!

[cannonski]

Da Vinci was alive in the 1840s? That's news to me.

[zenalotz]

this video is great and i might use it for a presentation but u had to add the retarded part with u connected to a string.

[Godsinwar]

Hey! The first flight of man in a real "machine heavier than air and controlled", from the inertia, was not the Wright brothers' flight: the flight was the Brazilian Santos Dumont (Paris, 1906). You can see it on the video itself, and the machine where the brothers are catapulted them! And there is also the problem of error with Da Vinci, Ryan. Thus, it becomes difficult to trust at work. ;)

[PerreAguiar]

Sorry but the Wright brothers did not make the first flight. This was performanced by the Brazilian Alberto Santos Dumont, which is officially reconized as the inventor of the airplane. US should improve its educational system!

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[mahayahay2010]

@PerreAguiar dumont who?

[BearFlight]

@PerreAguiar Actually, you're wrong. Dumont's first "actual" flight wasn't until 13Feb, 1909 with his Model 21 "Demoiselle" which landed him in court (France) for his "...blatant misuse of the Wright's US Patent #821,393"!

Santos Dumont contributed NOTHING to the development of the HTA (Heavier Than Air) flying machines. All of the early science and engineering came almost exclusively from the Wright brothers.

[BearFlight]

@PerreAguiar The first successful powered hop of a powered HTA was Felix du Temple (France) in 1874. The first successful power hop, dully witnessed, was Clement Ader in 1890 (France). First attempt at flight actually "witnessed" by the newly formed FIA, was the short hop in 1906 by Dumont. The first flight of a machine that contained all three requirments of the modern airplane, was Orville Wright on Dec17, 1903.

[BearFlight]

@PerreAguiar The only improvement in the education system needs to be done in Brazil. Dumont's 14bis (designed and built by Gabriel Voisin and Robert Esnault-Peltrie) never demonstrated the ability to fly. The FIA "officially" states that Dumont's Nov12, 1906 power hop was simply the first ever recorded by the newly formed organization, nothing more. The FIA "officially" states today that the first flight of an airplane, as we know it today, was Orville Wright on Dec13, 1903.

[BearFlight]

@PerreAguiar Santos Dumont was used as a PR dupe by Ernst Archdeacon (President of the ACduF) because of his (Archdeacon's) overt nationalism toward France. On Aug8, 1908, Wilbur demonstrated their 1st production version of the Wright's Flyer III "A" at LeMans, France and that was first ever aircraft ever seen in Europe. Dumont's 14bis lacked propellers, airfoils, and a control system and there is even a film made of his Nov12,'06 hop that prove this beyond any question. It did NOT fly, ever!

[BearFlight]

@PerreAguiar Its not and never has been a question about who made the first flight anyway. Airplanes are very complex, and what the Wright brothers did was to make the world's aviator experimenters realize that you could NOT "guess" at it. By 1906, when Dumont made his first attempts, the successful & practical airplane already existed. All of the engineering data required to design and fly an airplane had already been published worldwide and/or patented. Dumont was already too late!

[BearFlight]

@PerreAguiar If you claim that Dumont was somehow the "inventor" of the airplane, then I suggest you find a single scrap of paper, blueprint, or anything that shows in detail any contribution Dumont made toward the powered HTA. To save you time, there isn't any my friend. I can fill a room with the engneering data provided by the Wrights, mostly from the results of their lab & field test data from 1900 to 1905! Not to mention their US Patents, which had been issued prior to Dumont's failures.

[BearFlight]

@PerreAguiar I am a British Aeronautical Engineer (retired) that is a part of a rather large group of Aerospace and Aeronautical Engineers, worldwide, that are working at providing a detailed report to the United Nations, hoping they will pass a charter or statement giving proper credit to those that "actually" did develop the airplane. Because the airplane is one of the most profound technological developments in history, this needs to be done before the truth gets lost.

[BearFlight]

@PerreAguiar When I say "lost", it is because of certain nations have falsely attributed the airplane's invention to someone from their country, strictly for overt nationalistic reasons in most cases, and this needs to stop! This is particularly disturbing when you know that many of the early engineers tragically lost their lives in the airplane's development and for some country's (Brazil specifically) to continue to lie about Dumont, is almost criminal in its intent.

[BearFlight]

@PerreAguiar To help you further understand, in your terms, the Aero Club du France issued the first pilot's licenses and each was issued in order of when they "personally" observed a pilot flying an HTA. The no. 1 license went to L. Delagrange, #2 to H. Farman, #3 to W. Wright, #4 to S. Dumont, #5 to O. Wright, #6 to F. Ferber, #7 to R. Esnault Peltrie, #8 to L Bleriot. The ACduF 1st observed Dumont fly on 13Feb, 1909. I have copies of all the first licenses, so you can't argue the point!

[demonofrazgriz333]

@PerreAguiar when did this flight occur?

[PerreAguiar]

@demonofrazgriz333 The first Flight of an AIRCRAFT was made by Santos Dumont in Paris on Oct 23, 1906. No picture, no film, there is nothing to prove the Wrights did something. Only after Santos Dumont's 14 Bis (1906) and Demoiselle (1907) they showed up in 1908 with a machine, which they say it's a copy of the one used 5 years before and used a catapult to take off. It could be considered at most an ivention of a kind of glider. Ckeck a video called Wings of Madness -SANTOS DUMONT out!

[applesweeter]

Dear All,

I have a question about psychology:

*Why do we (human) have so much desire to fly high?

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE for your creative ideas and brainstorm!!! :)

[cashstore1]

Langley's Aerodrome did not fly because it was too heavy. It had problems with strenght and stress, involved with the catapult system. It also did not have a very good control system. The Aerodrome #5 and #6 did fly and he simply scaled up for the full model. It needed more frame support as the front wings buckled from the stress of the catapult. I bet Langley would have solved these problems, but his funding dried up.

[scottdavene]

Great job!

[putanginapare]

nice work bro!... your a smart kid

[MorganOthelloLafay]

Ein tolles Video !!!

Well done

5 stars

[MrPierman]

God Job, 5stars.

[warrant50]

ouai c'est bon p'tit t'as fait un beau boulot!!

[sandroluizserafim]

American aviation north possesss best and greater fleet of the world, this I agree. But nobody strap of my head that the impulse of all lode of the 14 bis of Santos Dumont, was the first airplane to fly for its proper ways. This is the truth.

[Z1Z2Z5Z4]

Great video! We'll never be able to fly like birds, though. Power-to-weight ratio is what it boils down to. Unless people develop hollow bones and very long arms, that is.

[DII117]

3:46 lol

[TAHMURI]

You've got two cats at home.

[mrwagon]

THEKzar! im your fan! teaching this poor Kid......thank's!!!!!!!

[dalinean]

Leonardo da vinci died in 1519 (before the 1840's)

[TheFiddog]

nice

[Catbox656667]

Where did you get the footage of early flight

[kharian9211]

look @ 0:06

[GCS1992]

interesting....

[TheKzar]

Well done. But remember that at that time the Wright´s machine needed to be catapulted, it´s engine hadn´t enough power to make it take of by its own means and also, a contrary wind with a resonable speed was needed. I suggest you to learn about Alberto Santos Dumont. Google him . Hes the man who created the dirigibles, who created an airplane that was able to fly by its own means in front of 1000´s of witness (14-Bis). Hes known as the "Father of the Aviation" on several nations.

[NazarethR]

the first plane was made bei arabs , bei abas ibn firnas

[Dimyonska]

What about the first manned flight in the 9th Century Abbas ibn Firnas? or the flight in Turkey in 1638 of Harzafen Ahmed celebri or the English monk Eilmer in the 10th C or the work of Roger Bacon who came across Firnas work in Cordoba and whose work Da Vinci directly drew from. Some of Firnas dagrams look very like Da Vinci's.

[Thopter]

Adideva01, It is always possible, but until a shred of archeological evidence is unearthed to support the Vedic descriptions of the Vimana, Valixi, and other ancient flying craft, the real existence of those craft still remain nothing but flights of fancy in poetry and mythology. Hardly, worth belittling modern provable accomplishments by comparison. There are Arabic myths of "flying carpets" too but without some tangible proof they are of little importance in the real history of flight.

[Thopter]

Nice job Ryan but.. correction....Leonardo's sketch that inspired the modern helicopter was not called the ornithopter. It was the circular craft you picture and it had no name that I know of. Leonardo's "ornithopter" referred strictly the mechanical bird-like devices.

[ChibiAnime100]

Yea it was good. Thanks Ryan. My only question is how did you fly? I have been with my sister all day trying to fly before...jumping from the table hehe

[bigtrump007]

Very interesting

[Adideva01]

For all you out there FLIGHT HISTORY.

the VIMANA space craft was already in existence many thousands of years at the time of Lord RAMA,that possed interstellar travel,VIMANA RULES!

The retarded Wright Bros actually created the devolution primitive retrograde way of flying made it worst,yes!it totaly sucks!retarded Wright Bros needed to evolve.

Hundred years after Orville Wright's first flight.

Shivkur Bapuji Talpade was THE HINDU WHO FLEW UNMANNED AIRCRAFT EIGHT YEARS BEFORE THE WRIGHT BROS.

[TheSarahScene]

nice! says michele.

Loved it, very education Ryan :) love you♥

~Sarah