First Airplane Flight - Santos Dumont 14 Bis.

100 Year birthday celebration for Santos DuMont. An aviation pioneer who certainly changed the World we live in. See also my videos on Santos DuMont with his baloons and the Demoiselle.

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[sdcharle]

Very nice, that plane performed a lot better than the replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer did at it's 100th anniversay, even though it did kind of crash at the end there.

[hpjacobs]

The organizers wanted to fly the bis14 on the national mall. The rotors caused by the wind in between the buildings made it difficult to execute a 100% controlled landing. So instead, the pilot made a deliberate hard landing which broke the two main wing spars. She flew again the following week at a different air show.

[anozawa]

wright's plane needed a catapult to take off...

sorry but americans failed.

[Dasein512]

@deepseadirt If you really want to know who was flying first wasn't neither the WB nor Dumont, there were a lot of inventors flying gliders and balloons before then both. But the point is that Dumont's invention was the first to take off, fly and land by it self with it's own self -propelled engine, so it was the first real airplane.

[apple9549]

whts the first plane called?\

[ThomasBR1983]

@ThomasBR1983

How many km/miles of catapult was needed to the Wright plane fly from USA to Paris? 100miles (and a perfect angle or death)? Do you see? Is it an aircraft or a prototipe?

For me its clear: S. Dumont CREATED the first AIRCRAFT

We can name Wrights invent the first 'hang-glider' not plane?

[ThomasBR1983]

@rcaddict72

14-Biz was the real thing, the Wright's was a prototipe that could not

do it alone...

The Wright advocates says that they were the 'first to fly', but there was already flying Baloons on that age ....14 Biz was the first aircraft to take off an land, and flying was not Wrights creation

[jotathenoble]

@easyeagle2 If these plane made by borthers wright was SOOO good as you said, why did the americans brought hundreds of FRENCH PLANES?

Damit, you americans think that you guys rule everthing, brothers wright made a GLIDER, Dumont a PLANE.

Brazil and France made the Sky a piece of cake to control. If brothers wright model was accepted in the world, the aviation would be 20 years in the pass.

[jotathenoble]

@taterfamine Sorry, but he did better, look at the records.

[yurimnds1]

@taterfamine Only americans remember Wright brothers... All world see Santos Dummont like the inventor of airplane!

[taterfamine]

@anozawa sorry, but they succeeded. look at the record books.

[deepseadirt1]

@Dasein512 yes there were several men experimenting with gliders and balloons up to the close of the 19th century. everything you said about Dumont is wrong. His 14bis was a piece of garbage and he soon abandoned it for the even worse 15bis which didn't leave the ground. 14bis hopped into the air uncontrolled and Santos was lucky he didnt kill himself in it. The Wrights by 1906 were flying controlled flights with a duration of over 30 minutes and hundreds saw these last flights of 1905.

[gunnersmatecpo]

I would like to know where the original 14 bis is currently housed. Does it still exist? I can't find any information about this subject anywhere.