Early Flight (b&w, silent, 16mm) Vintage Films
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Uploaded by jhbanner on Feb 25, 2007
Clips of vintage film footage of failed attempts at flight. The final clip is of the Wright Brothers.
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Does anyone know what the plane was in Family Guy when Stewie says "You know, I vaguely recall seeing footage somewhere of something exactly
like this, which leads me to believe this probably won't work."????
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the write bros were making a flight the length of a boing
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great times and brave men,who make the first danger steps.. lovely!
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And just think. Less than 10 years later, aircraft would be advanced enough to be effective tools in warfare.
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@Maracangaia1 The Indians had Vimanas a thousand years ago. They took off vertically and flew like helicopters. Others flew like planes. The Chinese had rocket powered seats and ballistic missiles 3 thousand years ago. Don't get caught up with the Wright Brothers.
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Airplane designs from those days are funny to us because we KNOW how aviation works and how an airplane is supposed to look. The pioneering pilots of those days did not have that knowledge. They weren't using the textbooks, they were trying to write them.
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Who invented the television? Who invented the internet?
Almost every invention is collective. The Wright brothers contributed much to aviation and aircraft control, as well as Santos Dumond.
The Writghts build a glider and put an engine. When the glider became autoproper is uncertain. Otto Lilienthal had done 2000 controllable glider flights between 1891 and 1896.
Dumond has shown that you can take off without launchers or track.
They, like many others, are heroes of aviation.
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The Wright brothers were making half hour flights by 1905. There are witness accounts and photos (sadly no film) . Santos-Dumont was amazing, but his 1906 efforts in 14-bis were a long way behind the Wrights. The problem is that the Wrights took a long break from flying, and were notoriously secretive. Few doubted their claims though, once they finally showed off their plane properly in 1908 (although yes, they used a catapult to get airborne). Their superb control is what set them apart.
PeterFardellSongs 1 year ago 6
Wonderful, Brave Nutters. We salute you. :)
DeepThroat1985 6 months ago 4