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Man's Early Quest to Fly

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Uploaded by on Apr 5, 2008

Early attempts to create a machine that could fly were noble, but not always successful. We laugh at these trial and error endeavors now, but these inventors and aviators are the forerunners of our modern space age. Thank God for the courage and endeavors of our civilians and our military to keep on trying.

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  • The first functioning ROFL COPTER?

  • 1:15...goodbye cruel world....the first suicide plane!!!...jeeze these guys must of been mad..quite mad!.....

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  • @oldfart387 I think the theory behind the bouncing umbrella was that if it moved up and down fast enough, it would bring more air downward than it did bringing it back up and it might gain some sort of lift?

  • Didn't anyone suggest to :08 that an umbrella bouncing over such a huge motor 'might' not work? Also should have told 1:15 to rethink it? Love all of the beginning pilots who gave us modern aircraft!

  • I especially like the wheat harvester-like thing at 1:20, lol.

  • @pumapreto, What a nice fantasy french people have where they always think they invented things first simply because they wish a french person did. They are are much like the chinese which simply copy everything they see and then try to take credit for it. If it weren't for the Wrights, your stupid french heros would probaby be copying horse and buggy designs. Go have a pastry or something, loser.

  • 0:11 you call this flying?Not to you -TakeTwoVideos-

  • Hey noble attempts the fly.. Wish i had that kind of ambition..

  • 0:12 cocktail shaker

  • @ahughes33

    It's not exactly the same, but it looks a lot like John Pitts' Sky Car design from the late 1920's.

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