[4k, 50fps, colorized] (1908) First Airplane Flight filmed: The Wright Military Flyer
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Wilbur and Orville Wright, five years out from their historic first flight at Kitty Hawk, decided to make a bid for the government contract. Tests of the Wright Flyer were first held at Fort Myer, Virginia, in September 1908, ending with a tragic crash that killed Army Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge and gravely injured Orville Wright. A recovered Orville resumed tests at Fort Myer with a new aircraft in July 1909.
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61 years later we’d be on the moon. The young people in this clip lived to see space travel. That’s amazing.
57 years later, Russians went into space
@@Ivan-wp1ne1 Brazilians were too busy removing butt hair from each other to ever fly right.
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@@coolnamebro the moon is just an illusion, duh.
"I must admit I fail entirely to recognize the utility of your "Wright Flyer" project. From what I have observed, these crafts cost a great deal more than the signal corps' balloons, require more infrastructure to launch, and 'fly' not half as high, and for not half as long. Respectfully, these machines are a waste of the military's resources. Please do not order any more of them."
- General Joseph Huntley, in a letter to Chief Signal Officer James Allen, 1908.
I'm not surprised at all by that statement. The military isn't exactly known to produce people with any kind of visionary ability. Similar attitudes have been displayed for the 1st's of just about any new tech.
@@ricomon35 I'd disagree, that's a very generalized and broad statement made on a comment by a single individual. The proliferation of aircraft to the degree of service they saw in WW1 a few year later, and further astounding progress made prior-to and during WW2 were ensured by those that (in terms of military use) saw the potential and use is this and outnumbered the doubters. Same thing happened to tanks, submarines, and again with the battleship/aircraft carrier debates. Other comments mentioned the moon landing 61 years later, but there were jet aircraft already ~30 years later.
People said that about cars, TVs and microwave food
@@ricomon35 not true. Military motivation has been the main source of technological inventions for a long time. Never does our technology evolve faster than in times of war, unfortunately. Most of the tech we use today is a direct result of WW1, 2 and the Cold War.
The quote above is just an example of a short-sighted individual who didn't have much to say after all.
If true, Huntley will go down in history as one of the most unaware, unimaginative buffoons of all time. Typical for the military at that time.
It's amazing that only 10 years later they had war planes with bombs attached, and 30 years later big passenger planes. This invention is bigger than cars or trains, to be able to carry humans up in the air is just a crazy idea that still today is a unique experience.
Id say cars on a more fundamental industrial or production philosophy; may have been more important. They created the concepts of design and research for the process of MANUFACTURING and not just a singular product. So people knew how to R&D so if you have a working concept, such as the Wrights, you can mass implement it into the world/markets instead of having to learn how to design mass production along with the product. That was what made us so powerful in WWII; we had insanely efficient production lines that were modular and could be switched to a different product quickly, such as Chrysler making airplanes instead of cars. All from auto
Bicycles honestly were even bigger and more important inventions, both cars and planes came from Bicycle Mechanics after all.
Trains shaped the modern world and still carry the vast majority of its freight. Trains sparked the industrial revolution and spread colonization throughout the world.
@@skraminc Have you not seen a Boeing or Airbus factory? They are a far better example of research and dvelopment and mass production than a car facility.
Cars didn't start the manufacturing process, the american nazi Henry Ford did. Cars were what he mass produced because they were the new shiny thing. If planes came first he would have mass produced them.
I'd say the knowledge in the late 1800s that molecules were not the smallest particles in existence but rather atoms were and atoms themselves had electrons which have positive and negative energies. This quantum physics knowledge created the foundation of everything we do today that has anything to do with electronics from radar to TV remotes, from computers to dishwashers. But for this knowledge the airplanes we have today would still be the same as what the Wright brothers flew over 100 years ago.
In fact, the first filmed flight was in 1906, in Paris, when the Brazilian Santos Dumont flew with his 14 Bis, a plane that already took off under its own power, without the need for propulsion machines. More than a thousand spectators and the Official Commission of the Aeroclube de France, an internationally recognized entity, were present. It's easy to find the video here on RUclips.
Omg that's what I was looking for! Finally someone actually smart lol
Nope. Santos first flight flight happened in 1909 many years after the Wright brothers 1903 they have witnesses and photographs of the Wrights plane on the air. Santos Dumont present his plane in 1906 but didn’t flew it then.
@@inisipisTV --You are misinformed, and the original poster is correct: Santos-Dumont's 14-bis flew in 1906, not 1909.
Gabriel Silva -- _”…his 14 Bis, a plane that already took off under its own power, without the need for propulsion machines.”_
Well stated, but your implication seems to be that Wright aircraft didn’t, or couldn’t do take off under their own power. That would be an incorrect claim. The 1903 Wright Flyer didn’t use a catapult at all, and later models were assisted by a catapult as a matter of convenience, not necessity. It was the Wrights’ preferred method because it allowed short takeoffs from rough surfaces and confined spaces, like the rutted, tree-ringed Huffman Prairie, a place where the 14-bis almost certainly couldn’t have operated. Take note that the 14-bis required more than ten times the takeoff distance that the catapult-assisted Wright Flyers did (~200 meters versus ~60 feet), which illustrates the Wrights’ reasoning for using the method that they did.
Santos Dumont's flight has already been debunked with overwhelming evidence, yet you can count on someone bringing this nonsense up time and again. It doesn't matter really, but it is a keyhole into the conspirators mind set.
In 1946, not 40 years later, Orville took his turn at the wheel in the cockpit of a quite modern 4 engine CONSTELLATION. (Check it out) . He was picked up in Dayton and invited to fly it for a few minutes while airborne. Then he quit and turned on the autopilot, saying "I have always thought that an airplane should fly it self." The last plane he flew before his death in 1948. Talk about amazing progress!
and on April 19, 2021 we flew for the first time on another planet. just over a lifetime later.
Oh ya that helicopter thing.
Few people flew before this
But not filmed hence the title saying first flight on film
@@withcheeseproductions I can't digest
@@azmicaseer8584 Just take it slow.
@@inisipisTV noo i care for them
What an astonishing, wondrous thing this must have seemed to many of those on the ground. Imagine you were 10 years old in 1908/9: in a single lifespan you would've lived from a time when heavier than air flight didn't exist to seeing Apollo 11 taking the first humans to another planet. Absolutely mind blowing.
I feel you but the moon is not a planet
Not another planet.
Werner von Braun was an assistant in the first rocket experiments just ten years later. Once you work out the basic principles, everything is a matter of engineering.
The Wright flyer, was hardly more than a flying kite, but to the Wright's credit, they built it, and the engine in a bicycle shop, quite an accomplishment.
Charlie Taylor built the motor.
Just incredible. Thanks for finding this and doing your magic.
It’s interesting to note that as in this flight, a demonstration. A Army officer was recorded as the first passenger to die. A LT Selfridge. An ANG field near Detroit Michigan is named in his honor.
I thank that’s him at 1:04
Yeah, I was wondering if the officer who climbed aboard was the most important or least important person there...
Santos Dumont never contested the worldwide recognition of the Wright brothers as aviation pioneers, despite being one of the first to successfully fly in lighter-than-air aircraft. He had a more diplomatic stance towards the Wright brothers and never publicly expressed any resentment or disagreement regarding the recognition they received.
Dumont, in fact, was known for his friendly and courteous personality, and many believe he simply wasn't interested in disputes or controversies. He was more focused on his own achievements and contributions to aviation, and didn't feel the need to compete with the Wright brothers for recognition.
Furthermore, Dumont was a man of peaceful and optimistic spirit, who believed in the progress of humanity through science and technology. He was more concerned with promoting aviation as a safe and accessible means of transportation for all, rather than personal recognition disputes.
The Wright brothers had a slightly different view of Santos Dumont and his contributions to aviation. While the Wright brothers were known to be more reserved and less inclined to seek public recognition, they also firmly believed that they were the true pioneers of aviation.
The Wright brothers always maintained that they were the first to achieve successful controlled and powered flights in heavier-than-air aircraft, contrasting with Dumont's flights in lighter-than-air aircraft. They argued that their meticulous scientific and experimental approach set them apart from other aviation pioneers, including Dumont.
However, there are no records of public statements from the Wright brothers about Santos Dumont. They also did not engage in public disputes over who deserved more credit for the invention of the airplane. Overall, the Wright brothers maintained a discreet stance and focused on continuing to develop and enhance their own aeronautical inventions and technologies.
Transportation was mostly powered by horses by 1900, at that time children ran out of their homes to watch an automobile to go by; by 1920 they ran when an airplane passed by on the sky, by 1950 when a helicopter, then by 1960 when a jet airplane. In the 1970s, when I was a child, we ran to watch a horse carriage. Today, kids don´t give a sht, they´re busy looking down watching whatever sht is there in the hand mirror they always carry with them.
That plane, if it were to fly today, would cause just as much fascination as it did in this film.
115 years ago, ALL the people filmed here are a healthy SKINNY .03-05 and 6:10, fit and flexible.
Nowadays, in a group of 15, we might find only ONE such person.!
Excellent job on this film restoration & coloring. I'll bet it's quite complex and takes many different steps & apps. The results are so clear & realistic, especially @ 5:30, it's as if it were filmed yesterday.
Thanks a million, and pls keep up the good work!
I guess the first airplane filmed is 14-bis (1906)
Americans think that they invented the airplane...
@@Delessi Americans invented the glider, propelled by a slingshot
@@bendergamer14 And a self-propelled airplane.
@@Delessi They sort of did.
@@Dr.KarlowTheOctoling The self-propelled airplane was shown first time in Paris by a brazilian.
Orville & Wilbur Wright are my cousins from my Dad's side of the family. My other cousin from my Mom's side of the family is Brig. Gen. William ( Billy ) Mitchell the Father of the U.S. Air Force. I now can say not only did my cousins invent the plane, but also showed how to properly use the plane. Pretty Cool in my book !
Astounding to see it so real
This is not the first airplane filmed in flight; the first flight was filmed in 1906, in Paris, with the Brazilian Alberto Santos Dumont in his 14bis airplane. In 1909, flying was already a daily routine for Santos Dumont with his Demoiselle.
Aircraft have come a long way since then. But aircraft still use a catapult system for assisting takeoff from carriers.
99 years later, the iPhone was born.
That was amazing!!! Luckily, a camera and filming was invented first. We're all able to see the things from the past. Watching here in August 2024 on RUclips.
I just finished David McCullough’s Wright Brothers, and it was impossible not to yell hints at them like they were in a horror film. 😊
Oh yeah, Very nice footage. The caption is incorrect, the first airplane filmed in a flight of 220 meters was Alberto Santos Dumont's 14 bis, in 1906 in the Bagatelle field, this flight in the video is perhaps the second, anyway it's a good historic event.
Not even the second, the flight of the Curtiss June Bug on july 4th, 1908 was the first filmed in the United States by the Kalem Company. Furthermore I am almost sure that at least one of the flights of Farman, Delagrange or Bleriot was filmed before this Wright flight.
Sometimes when things is falling apart, they may actually be falling into place...so don't bother much...for nature knows better than you ❤️
Just imagine being there that day. To watch someone actually flying. Something man had never done before. 😊
I wish I was there living in that time instead of now. There wasn't social media fever and no smartphones. People also were more respectful.😔
An arrangement of pieces of fragile sticks and glue never looked so graceful in flight.
The ailens watching from above " awwwww congrats guys didn't think you'd make it this far... See you in about 150 years from now"
Hard to believe nobody had developed a smooth panning tripod head yet.
Wilbur: "Orville"
Orville: " yeah Wilbur"
Wilbur: "How do we get down?
Orville: "Uh, Wilbur, I thought you were working on that."
Wilbur: "Nope, not me."
Both in unison: "Oh shit"
They flew it incredibly well. And stuck the landing!
Dude checking his phone at 4:06 just doesn't seem to care history is unfolding right in front of him.
Crazy to think that was 1908, we have come a long way since
If you could only travel back in time and tell them 2 simple things: "a little dihedral and move the elevators to the tail...."
It’s funny that for bicycle engineers it took the Wrights years and years to develop landing gear. You’d have thought their very first idea would be to strap wings to bicycles.
It's wrong! The First filmed airplane is 14 bis, in September, 7, 1906 in Plaine de Jeux de Bagatelle, France.
Funny how the design would basically be turned back to front for all planes afterwards.
Foi santos Dumont que inventou o avião
Eh, mano, mas eles nunca vão aceitar
Nope, that would be Gustave Whitehead.
@@OverTheVoids nope, it was a Russian, Alexander Mozhayski, 1884
I am in the middle of reading David McCullough's book, The Wright Brothers. Fascinating.
Wow, amazing film. The Wright brothers were geniuses. Greetings from Miami.
This is five years after the Wright brother's first flight. Not even close.
It’s even crazier to think that 4 years after this the titanic would happen
I wonder if this is any of the footage when Lt. Thomas Selfridge was killed in 1908 while flying with Orville.
Misleading title when you're supposed to be educational. The title should be "First Filmed Flight". First Flight Filmed insinuates somehow someone found footage of the December, 1903 first flight.
Good point.
Fantastic Job. What computer - video card do you use ?
Pffff, the Wright Brothers created the first CATAPULT plane. The first autonomous plane was created by Santos Dumont.
I encourage you to do some genuine research.
The first autonomous plane? Like a drone?
@@Dr.KarlowTheOctoling Like a plane that doesn't need another machine to give it the initial motion off the ground.
@ Ohhhh.
@ --The 1903 Wright Flyer did not use a catapult, nor did the 1904 Flyer at first. The Wrights then adopted the frequent use of a catapult as a performance preference, not as a necessity. All Wright aircraft could take off unassisted, and this was demonstrated on several occasions, including public appearances witnessed by thousands. You must consider that the catapult allowed takeoff from rough surfaces and confined spaces, such as the rutted Huffman Prairie, where Santos-Dumont's 14-bis likely could not have operated. If you consider too that the 14-bis required more than 10 times the takeoff distance as the Wright Flyers did (200 meters versus 60 feet), then it should be clear that the use of a catapult was a preference, not a necessity.
Leave historic film untampered with.
Film is a historic document
1:26 It's strange why you almost never see the catapult launch system when it comes to the first flights.
Why don't you remove the vertical scratch lines in the video?
Nice footage, but not "First Airplane Flight filmed". I suggest renaming and updating the description accordingly. Other clips from 1903 are available.
Absolute balls of steel.
Imagine the thrill to be on that rickety thing, not just flying like a balloon, but soaring through the air!
Someone goes to the trouble to colorize the film and you digitally add fake dust specks and scratches.
Why?
Imagine the questions running through their heads while in flight. . .
"Say Orville, how much fuel does this thing have?" "Does this thing have brakes?" "We got it OFF the ground, now how do we set it back down, again??"
@@hardcorehistory9165 chill bro, I think he meant it as a joke.
I don't believe that this was the very first flight but early on in history of flight for sure.
First filmed flight
Where was this shot? The description doesn’t mention specifically. Va? outer banks NC? Europe?
Amazing. The Wright Bros invent the airplane and immediately try to contract out to the MIC.
@@hardcorehistory9165 good info 👍 doesn't negate the fact that as soon as humans invented manned flight they turned it into a weapon.
What's with the camera jerky movement. Hadn't they invented oil yet? I can hear the squeaks from here.
Don't want to burst your bubble, but in Munich Museum is a picture of the first airplane in 1899 .... 4years before the Wrong/Wright brothers .... when I saw that I was so angry that I was lied to ....
Imagine if you could show them the SR-71 Blackbird, let them take a ride in it. They couldn't imagine where it would go
Naw put them on a rocket and let them see earth from space.
great video
Is there footage of the complete landing? It seems to get cut off and then the aircraft is turned 180.
You know someone watching said these guys are crazy. Yes they were. Look where it got them. Dream big.
The way they walk about carrying that aircraft. Wonder if it was made of Balsa wood?
What, like the mosquito?
Strange that nobody has ever built another Wright flier got it off the ground , BUT ! CAN DESIGN A SUPPER SONIC JET
Oh yes, if ONLY we could have dinner served supper sonic!🤣🤣🤣
Looks amazing
I LOVE that original catapult!! How medieval, lol!
Like they use on an aircraft carrier!
Not one of those spectators had been in an aircraft, in fact no one in the world had
It doesn't show the actual landing. Is this the one where the lieutenant was killed?
Cameraman needed some grease on his tripod..
wow... those people are a tough crowd.
The impact and meaning of this indescribable. Also the fact that this was filmed, another technology that just a few years earlier was invented.
And consider that automobiles were barely a thing in their infancy too at this time. The Model T had just come out.
And houses still used gas lighting
@@RobinDale50 the first car was in 1885. 23 years before this. The model t had been out for 5 years by this time it wasn't new
@@joeyaldente8858 Trends came and went then just as they did now, humans perceive time in exactly the same way; relative to age.
23 years is enough time for a baby to become an adult, the Zeitgeist moves quickly.
"few years earlier" = 18 years earlier.
Incredible step into history.
Was done before them ;)
@@legioner9
Wrong…
@@dr.jamesolack8504 Traian Vuia in 1906, Santos Dumont in 1906 also, Otto von Lilienthal - even before 1900 (though not engine powered). So stop spamming, doc.
@Adcox Robert Ellaborate.
@@legioner9 no enggine thats mean is glider not plane
in this age where air travel has become mundane, its difficult to imagine the thrill and amazement most of the onlookers are feeling having previously seen nothing bigger than a large bird or perhaps a hot air balloon moving through the sky suddenly seeing this machine wrought by the hand of man moving through the air with as much ease as any bird.
Zeppelins from that time were larger than most of today's planes
I thought it was wild it as soon as it took off they kind of turned their backs and walked away. We don't do that now when a plane takes off in front of us
@@andrewmitchell5807 I al Sorry but non of these people had seen Zeppelin yet. It was invented and developed by the same time. Only hot Air balloons were already well known.
Hoy air balloons were around for a long time before so, not so stonish.
@@DavidGarcia-kf9wo and were rather rare and just floated with the breeze, not maneuvered around under their own power.
Growing up, the clearest sign of old footage was the jerky/fast motion and black & white tones. They've done some amazing work standardizing the speed and consistency (even filling in missing frames, wow!). Adding color just makes the scene so much more "present" -- these were people just like you and me, living in a different year, but pretty much recognizable even today. I think if they could fix the "blooming" (or whitening of the images) and clean up all the scratches, you might even believe this footage was a modern re-creation of historical events rather than the events themselves. Peter Jackson's documentary "They Shall Not Grow Old" is a prime example of pulling footage from the past and giving it a modern feel. I can't wait to see what else they do in the future!
I am familiar with this amazing footage, but to see it in living color ROCKS!
But...did we notice, that the landing was omitted? Why?
It's colorized/ fake / guessing
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santos-Dumont_14-bis
@Britain Uk Yep. You are right. I knew that, too, but didn't mention it so not to blow the amazement of folks who didn't.
But the fact you mention IS actually interesting in itself. 😸👍
@Britain Uk Nice to meet you! 😀
And 61 years later, men went to the moon.
It’s so freaking weird how fast time can go.
INCREÍBLE verdad?.... O lo de la llegada a la luna es mentira o ese fue el salto o asaña más grande q hizo el hombre y no volvió a hacer otra así .🤔🤔🤔
@@martindeballester Yes it was incredible. Only 55+ years later, we get the SR-71 Blackbird.
Thanks to fossil fuels
Actually, no one did. It was american movie
It “flys” by!!
Within a year of this film, the elevator and rudder moved permanently to the rear of an aircraft.
This design was incredibly hard to fly, as you can see from the wild porpoising just after takeoff.
I would have never gotten in that thing with the old design ! Lol
Yes, the 24Bis or 'Demoiselle' by Santos Dumont was very much like a ultra light airplane.
Canard designs are much *easier* to fly. The popular Long-EZ and Cozy homebuilt canards are impossible to stall.
The conventional tail became popular because canards do not work well with flaps, resulting in a higher landing and takeoff speed that requires longer runways.
Today the "canard" is back, on several airplanes, so maby they where on to something........🤔
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It must have been quite a sight to behold! And what a thrill for the brothers- to show everyone your success at one of the most important achievements ever.
even watching it just thinking of them sitting on that wing the mind to endlessly wonder
and thinking what crazy brave obsessed helpless fools us bird brains are to do anything at the chance to defiy gravity
most people could never understand that addiction
they didn't have to do it they needed to do it mark of true Hero's
Two random guys who were just making bicycles.
I mean it wasn't the first flight in history. Airships had been making long distance travel for a long time before airplanes.
The funny thing is, they asked Orville what it was like years later. He said something like “ it was much more fun dreaming of flying on my bed than doing it. I look back and say to myself I would never get in that first Flyer in a twenty seven mph wind and try to fly”!
Incredible footage and history! And how far we advanced a few short years after this.
Similarly, smart phones came in 2007 and now you see the advancement after few short years
@@Bloomsss Smart phones are not an advance, guy. Combining three old technologies into one unit does not = progress. Repackaging the same old shit is not progress.
We have not made actual progress since the 1920’s or so.
We still rely on destruction for all our energy needs. Progress is moving beyond that to the endless free energy that has always been out there and available.
The level of technology reflects a society’s level of consciousness. Most humans are unfortunately not really awake.
It’s way past time for humanity to wake up, wise up and grow up.🤦♂️
@@spanqueluv9er realistically the 1900s.. there was electric cars and scooters back then and they only gave such technology to the masses recently.
@@lawfulbeneficiary1731 Totes.
The real time machine...
This was amazing. Seeing it not only in motion but in high definition makes events like this form our past feel like more then some half forgot blerb from a poorly written school book. Things were so different for them at that time it's like it's footage from another universe.
The team behind this cannot be praised enough for this contribution, thank you.
High definition? The original surviving film stock was digitalized and cleaned up with video editing software. What you see is not the original image. Even the colors and brightness in the video is guesswork - someone decide this is how it is suppose to look.
The Wright brothers began to publicly present their aircraft and their experiments in 1908, about three years after Santos Dumont's flight on his 14-bis in Paris
Their first public flight was in 1904-1905 but no moving pictures were taken
@ceuazul6913 --The 14-bis first flew in 1906, not 1905.
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Here is the footage from 1906 of the 14 bis flying.
@@M0utles 1 year late mofo
I am an aviation historian and I have seen this a thousand times. Today I saw it for the first time. Incredible work, thanks!
yeah, plane was actually invented by a Brazilian, keep studying
@@Ivan-wp1ne1 LOL
@@Ivan-wp1ne1 Actually it was invented by a German named Gustave Whitehead. You keep studying yourself though and you might get it right one day.
@@OverTheVoids actually, it was invented by a Russian, Alexander Mozhayski, in 1884 he performed a flight on an appliance that was heavier than air
@@Ivan-wp1ne1 actually it was invented by MikeOxlong in 1900 after he failed math class
This was the Wright Flyer 3 and was a vast improvement over the first 2 models. The Wrights increased the performance and reliability of the engine, increased the size of the various control surfaces which gave better handling, and instead of the pilot laying prone, they added a seat so the pilot could sit upright. The entire airframe was made stronger.
Still seemed a little underpowered on take off.
Copiaram do Santos Dumont!!
I knew something was wrong here. The first flight only lasted a few seconds.
@@robl326 This was a flight for the military to see how much they had accomplished since the first flight. The army had certain specs the machine had to have and they proved it in this flight. Many officers were probably saying if God want man to fly, he would have given him wings.
By this point Glenn Curtiss in Hammondsport NY was building better planes
that flew higher, farther and faster, because he knew how to build motorcycle engines out of aluminum
In May 1908 Curtiss took his first airplane flight in the White Wing, an aircraft designed by Casey Baldwin (Lt. Thomas Selfridge also flew it, thereby becoming the first military person to fly an airplane.) A month later Curtiss flew an airplane of his own design, the June Bug.
The flying ability from such a novice pilot was remarkable (these were literally new experiences every time and far and few between). He made a lot of really sharp turns without stalling the machine. Pilots still die today on final approach in far more capable and controllable aircraft. Somehow he knew instinctively what had to be done to keep it in the air.
And remember it was Warp wing technology .
I actually cringed when I saw him banking sharply because I thought they'd come down to earth with a thud.
Yes, spectacular flying ability!
I didn't even see any seat belts. They just held on with their bare hands? Balls of steel right there...
This is 5 years after the first flight. Who's a novice? Not only was he NOT a novice he's the most experienced pilot in the world at this time #ignorance
Alberto Santos Dumont is the best
imagine the thoughts of the people watching tis for the first time? Amazing. Tremendous.
Unvaccinated, I am sure there were naysayers as well who must have said something along the line of "what a waste of time. Society will never have a need or use for such a contraption. Would you not agree, Mr. Smith? How about you, Mrs. Smith?"
The Wright's actually filmed their very first flight at Kitty Hawk, so this isn't the first flight filmed.
We went from that to an Airbus A380 in just a century.
Concorde!
I rode a BA 380 from LA to London last week!
Went to the moon in like 60 years after the first flight. That one is way more epic.
And then only 60 years after we flew to the moon and back. Yeah Wright!!
Thats one small take off for man, one giant flight for mankind.
This footage is truly a world heritage. Thanks a lot for sharing!
Muchas de las personas que salen en el formidable documento audiovisual, vivieron lo suficientemente para ver volar a los ingenios aeronáuticos de los años 50's e incluso de los 60's. Debe ser impactante observar los primeros pasos del sector y con los años, tener la oportunidad de ver como la tecnología hizo posible un salto técnico tan desproporcionado en tan corto período de tiempo. Saludos desde España
However, the 14 bis airplane flight of 1906 in Paris was also filmed.
2022: we have conducted a 7 second test flight of our new aircraft
1908: JUST SEND IT!!!!!
Excelente! Mientras almuerzo en el trabajo y de postre uno de tus videos 🥧😃😋👏👏😉😉 , un saludos a todos desde argentina 👋👋🇦🇷🇦🇷
I can imagine the thrill people must have felt. Watching men fly for the very first time. Nothing short of a miracle.
This was not the very first time. The very first time they only stayed in the air about 12 seconds at Kitty Hawk.
@@exoressdelivers70 True, but there were only a handful of witnesses. The film shots in question appeared to show that there were hundreds, if not thousands present.
Santos Dumont in 1906 did in Paris with thousands of witnesses, it was the world's first public flight
@@gannielukks1811 The first glider flight was in 1853. It carried the reluctant coachman of its builder, Sir George Cayley, across Brompton Dale in Yorkshire.
@@tomarmstrong1281 Yeah, but not a plane, a glider
Incredible 😍 What an amazing piece of history made to look even better! Great job.
Magnificent men and their flying machines
that was a great film, very funny