1930’S U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS FILM “ AERONAUTICAL ODDITIES ” WHACKY FLYING MACHINES & AIRPLANES 84434

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This pre-war U.S. Army Air Corps film presents footage of experimental planes and flying contraptions from the 1920’s through the 1930’s. The collection was assembled by the US Army Air Corps (:17) and Paramount News presents the first newsreel (:37). Vehicles are seen riding down a public highway in Coatesville, Pennsylvania (:41). A glider type craft swoops in through the crowds and cars (:44). It is then seen in a field with it’s turntable wings spun by the inventor (:58). Pathe News presents D. T. Granville demonstrating his tail first plane in Springfield, Massachusetts (1:46). The craft is driven by automobile controls (1:57). The wheel is adjusted to show how it controls the rudders and ailerons (2:05). The plane takes off and flies with it’s tail facing forward (2:14). A Universal Newspaper Newsreel (2:34) brings the film to Orangeburg, New York. A windmill type flying craft is seen (2:41) invented by Johnathan Caldwell. The craft, named Gray Goose (3:09), is unable to take off from the ground. Harvest Metrotone News presents a tubular plane (3:25). It is shown in Milan and it’s rudders are viewed from the back of the cylindrical plane with long flat wings (3:32). Another craft presented by Harvest is the C. L. Synder plane in South Bend, Indiana (4:05). The craft is shown to be fairly similar to more modern air planes except for the long wing extensions which make it appear to represent a butterfly (4:26). Due to its shape, in the event of motor failure, it could be flown as a glider (4:35). Paramount News (4:58) shows a spindle plane invented by C. Popper (5:14). Popper gives an explanation as to how the spindles work (8:23). It is wingless and the larger spindles are the main lifting lifters (5:32). The spindles are shown to be revolving and creating a lifting vacuum above (5:48). A Universal Newspaper Newsreel shows a craft known as the “potato bug” (6:16) which is seen flying low over a crop field (6:27). The pilot waves and steps from the cockpit at (6:51). In Greenville, Illinois a plane with a large circular top mount heads down a runway for take off (7:05). It moves over the country side (7:14) and lowers smoothly due to the flat circular top side (7:23). A tailless plane is seen in Glendale, California (7:41) with only a cockpit and wings. The craft takes off (7:58). A device on the wingtips controls the craft’s direction (8:13). In Czechoslovakia, Unzez Chalupsky is seen with his model plane (8:22). The contraption is seen flapping it’s wings (8:36) and taking off (8:44). A self-flying plane is presented by Pathe News in Glendale California (8:56). It’s stabilizers are pointed to (9:04). The pilot is viewed as he steps from the cockpit (9:13). The automatic controls are seen in action (9:18). The pilot stands on the fuselage (9:24). Another Universal Newsreel shows an aero-bike (9:41). In Baltimore, the pilot pedals to move the wings (9:46). The craft is unable to take off (10:03). In Paris, France a pilot climbs into an elliptical plane (10:25). The tail is shown to stick up from the middle (10:30). Willard E. Blain conducts tests on his ornithopter in New London, Connecticut (11:10). Willard addresses the camera with the invention on his back as he believed it would enable him to fly as a bird (11:26). He jumps from a bridge over water (11:43) and drops straight into the waterway (11:47). He tests it again as he runs to jump from a rock, though he comically lands on his frontside (12:11). W. P. Kindree and his ‘sky car’ are presented by Hearst in Detroit (12:14). The inventor and machine follow (12:29). As the craft is started up, it simply jostles violently up and down without taking off (13:41). A butcher is shown in Van Nuys, California demonstrating his rocket device (14:37). The device blows (14:40) and the butcher’s bicycle glider is then shown at the Metropolitan airport (14:50). A dog collar is attached around his neck which was supposed to enable him to help the wings flap (15:11). As his helpers run behind him and light the power plant (15:27), the bike tips over and the butcher’s pants catch fire (15:57).
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[@bwm-tz4hx]

Its like they made planes without testing them first and just came up with what popped up in their heads

[@NathanTarantlawriter]

That's the secret to a lot of breakthrough engineering I bet.

[@macsdaddy3383]

In the beginning, an Ultralight before there were Ultralights. Followed by what is probably one of the first examples of the Canard Wing, the Flying Wing itself, Pusher Propellers, Winglet's (though not for range extension/fuel conservation), and Auto-Pilot. Who knew?

[@kenwittlief255]

the Wright brothers first plane WAS a canard wing with a pusher prop

[@chrismaguire3667]

Some of these ideas were later actually experimented by both the USN and USAF. The disc wing was taken as a test-bed for possible STOL planes for carriers, after WW2, thus the famous 'Flying Pancake', for example.

[@skylaneav8r902]

The Italian plane at 3:37 looks like a F-86 Sabre and a Gee-Bee had a baby:) The guy on the bike at the end was hilarious! He was trying his best to get away from that thing but his leash had him!😂

[@kevinangus4848]

As a cyclist , love the "Aero Bike" ( 9:32) As a Maryland resident: "...that's why we call them 'Baltimorons'." Actually, they got the human-powered flight thing accomplished. 😁

[@LewdCustomer]

Seems like a fun, safe hobby for anyone.

[@NathanTarantlawriter]

Especially the neighbor's children.

[@trustyoldiron5416]

5:27 "The large one's are the main lifting... lifters" Oh yea that Inspires all sorts of confidence.

[@oldnick4707]

He didn't even try to explain that other thigamabob though!

[@Kleesmilie]

15:50 ‘What he should have, is a pair of asbestos pants.’ Yeah… about that.

[@Benzene265]

Does he need them for the rocket or the sick burns from the reporter?

[@rockets4kids]

Asbestos is perfectly fine until it becomes a powder and you inhale it...

[@deepspire]

@@rockets4kids It’s fine in buildings, but readily sheds fibers when used as a fabric.

[@1L6E6VHF]

But with the fire-resistant fabrics of a century ago, it was asbestos it gets.

[@Shadobanned4life]

Hats off to all these amazing and brave inventors and thank You for sharing this !

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[@doctorscoot]

3m20s is a kinda weird 1930s pre-imagining of a modern "jet" engine as found on a 737 i.e. it's fan driven bypass air engine just without the jet turbine in the middle to drive it so massively fast (thus, also, no "bypass").

[@tz8785]

That's the Stipa-Caproni and the narrator is only half-correct, it was very stable but not fast.

[@iamcarbonandotherbits.8039]

Was thinking the same thing myself, a lot of these guys had the right idea's but the technology needed was years ahead of their time.

[@breakingames7772]

you can put times as 3:20 and it will automatically be a blue link people can click to go right to that part in the video

[@breakingames7772]

@@tz8785 they could have made the hole at the back smaller and sped up the air flow out the back, at least i think it would be faster

[@davidschaadt5929]

The Granville Brothers made those World Champion GB Supersportster racing planes

[@ntesla66]

I was wondering if anyone noticed that was Zantford Granville!

[@finddeniro]

Doolittle Flew it. .Heavy Torque...

[@davidschaadt5929]

@@finddeniro thanks .

[@lawrencelewis2592]

wasn't the GeeBee racing plane built on the lines of a bumblebee? or was it a milk bottle?

[@richardthefox3412]

12:11 As featured in Airplane

[@shaider1982]

Imagine if someone made a non powered replica of some of these and entered it to a Red Bull Flugtag.

[@johnsmith5255]

I was lmfao at some of these. We had everything from mixers on wheels to bouncing umbrella cars to a guy lighting his pants on fire. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@u.s.militia7682]

Funny as hell but they learned from their mistakes.

[@deathwrenchcustom]

Did they though..? 😆

[@DrMerle-gw4wj]

You would think that the inventors of these flops would have tried them a few times before allowing a camera to humiliate them.

[@wfdix1]

Then again you wouldn’t think anyone would vote for Joe Biden.

[@DrMerle-gw4wj]

@@wfdix1 ... or for that matter that psycho pervert mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot.

[@globeflicker9216]

Back when getting high in Coatesville, Pa meant something different. Good times.

[@stevewallace1117]

Amazing how many ideas presented in this movie were later incorporated into military aircraft.

[@allandavis8201]

If it wasn’t for the seemingly crazy inventors (and some were crazy) taking huge risks perfecting maned flight I wouldn’t have had a 24 year service career in the RAF, and the average person wouldn’t have been on holiday to the far flung corners of the world. The film “those magnificent men in their flying machines” is a brilliant film for slapstick comedy and even more crazy flying machines than you “can shake a sh1ty stick at”. Thanks for sharing this really interesting and funny documentary film, what were some of these people thinking 💭, thanks again. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@dphotos007]

The bird man did not have the smarts to stop when he crashed jumped of the rock. What was he thinking. The helicopter guy with the umbrella was a real winner too. These shade tree mechanics/inventors were a hoot to watch.

[@hiltonian_1260]

The first one with the forward canard wing was actually a decent design. Virtually stall proof. There was a designer in the 1970s who produced a higher performance version of the same type of plane.

[@hiltonian_1260]

Bert Rutan was the designer and the plane was called the VariEZ.

[@thelastsatan]

What a trip it must have been growing up in that Era? "Martha! What is that infernal racket?!" "Oh dear, it's old man Ohennesy and his flying machine again." "That damned quack. If God wanted us to fly he would have given us feathers."

[@mikeklaene4359]

Funny thing is that I actually learned to fly at the Coatesville, PA airport: KMQS in 1993.

[@TralfazConstruction]

That's a pretty cool coincidence. I did a double-take hearing/seeing Coatesville mentioned right at the outset of this quaint video. Haven't been up that way in several years.

[@jonathanbarnes3061]

Very unique to get to say that.

[@globeflicker9216]

Sadly it’s a bit hurt looking now. Outside of towns nice

[@MattsInTheBelfry]

Did you fly one of these?

[@mikeklaene4359]

@@MattsInTheBelfry Funny! Not one of those. Only Piper Archers and Arrows, and Cessna 172s and 182s. I suspect that the current airport is at the same location as in this video. It is now a paved 5400' runway with an ILS.

[@ohbogey]

After just recently learning to walk upright, hew-mons decide to really give their brains a workout!😂🤣thank goodness for advancements in aviation and breaking out in late '47 to become our beloved USAF!

[@tannhauser7584]

Reminded me of the Monte Python skit about flying sheep. Reporter and farmer are talking about the sheep that have climbed a tree (shown in the background). When the reporter asks about them flying, the farmer says, "Well, they try, but they mostly just plummet."

[@moshunit96]

Great video! Just a gem.

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[@jonathanbarnes3061]

Still a great opportunity for the man that perfects the flying bicycle.

[@wfdix1]

That’s what drives AOC’s green new deal.

[@Lewis_T]

A pair of assbestos pants… 😆 I’m certainly here at the wrong times. I got the dial off by a few decades or century… I’m gonna try again. Next filming you will see me fly my invention off a rock into a face plant or maybe I will just be included on this film when you watch it.

[@travistucker7317]

Aww shucks. That really seemed like a winner.

[@johnburrows1179]

Those pilots had guts

[@Sidetrackification]

Got a Sel. ticket in 86,2 of the instructors i flew with had original tickets signed by the Wright Brother who had become head of FAA

[@cliff8669]

Truly, Men of vision. Some a bit nearsighted. The flying wing did see the future.

[@Wildstar40]

Nearsighted ? Try totally blind lol !

[@ChasOnErie]

Interesting reading thru comments ... VERY MANY PEOPLE HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF AIRCRAFT DESIGN ...again many ideas have been shown very flight worthy !!!!

[@michaelmartinez1345]

Some did very well, some almost made it off the ground, while others did not do so well at all... But they all brought out the spirit of adventure, with the dream of flight....

[@charlesmadison1384]

Great examples of "thinking outside the box" Unfortunately ...

[@timcleaveley906]

Haha the Helicopter one got me! LMAO

[@davegriffith32]

Maybe they should put someone a bit heavier on the rocket bike and let this guy be a jockey.

[@MrRugbylane]

🤣

[@globeflicker9216]

Imagine just if It had actually worked. I can’t.

[@brucewelty7684]

Just a teensy bit between a dream and a NIGHTMARE

[@sturmovik5448]

13:00 Although it didn't fly as a helicopter, it went on to a long and successful career in the treatment of constipation.

[@ernst_junger]

Italian tube plane seems to be the predecessor of later jet planes like the F-86 and MiG 15

[@PaulFisher]

I was thinking that it more or less prefigured the design of the jet engine by putting the prop in a tube; it’s just missing the critical idea of having the tube be the combustion chamber and using the exhaust gas to drive the fan.

[@lawrencelewis2592]

I assume that the tube was configured as a venturi. it shows sound engineering practices.

[@billjamison2877]

Good Grief! What were some of these people thinking?? Some actually worked, others were nothing but a Fool's Folly at best!

[@johnruschmeyer5769]

The ones that involve human-powered or -assisted flight seem to be the worst. I don't know if any had a serious athletic background, but common sense should tell you that the level of performance and endurance required for any substantive flight would be tremendous.

[@jasonramos5634]

Why did they put the big guy on the bike in that last clip?

[@stephenalexander6033]

Looks like a Burt Rutan at 2:30. I thought everyone was broke and selling apples on the street during the Depression?

[@lanedexter6303]

There’s a time, early in the development of many technologies, cars, guns, airplanes, tractors, etc. where MANY inventors are trying MANY different things, before it all settles down to “this is how we do it.” Some inventions work, many don’t, but all are interesting, and testaments to human imagination.

[@JFrazer4303]

4:13 The Arup S-2 from Indiana 6:57 the Nemeth "Parachute Plane" Both defy "if it looks right, it'll fly right", and they fly better than "normal" planes.

[@travisphelps3351]

The one at 13 min might have flew if it had the right helicopter blades lol I love these old movies

[@terraint3697]

That was a neat Disney movie.

[@uzaiyaro]

“Surprisingly airworthy.” That sounds like me in flight sim.

[@karoltakisobie6638]

You won't know if it works until build it. It boggles my min why autogiros didn't become popular. Much simpler than helicopters and way earlier.

[@darkwood777]

You can't hover an autogiro.

[@lawrencelewis2592]

@@darkwood777 There's a flyable one at the museum at Duxford, U.K. I didn't see it fly, unfortunately.

[@rdbjrseattle]

12:12 “Oh S___t”

[@joseveintegenario-nisu1928]

The Stipa tubular fuselage has an airfoil-shaped profile in duct, inventor said the machine had increased drag respect to others, would be an advantage if just the lower part of duct has an airfoil section , providing lift, as in Custer Channel Wing, the upper half of duct being left flat? Blessings +

[@marc-andrebrunet5386]

⚠️Nothing less than Epic !! 😲👍 ..Respect ya !!

[@hscollier]

Guess the windmill plane concept just never took off.

[@weasel3720]

!11:35 the very first Red Bull Flugtag!

[@strfltcmnd.9925]

Some of these people are just plain nutty.

[@TralfazConstruction]

3:24 Whammo, the toy manufacturer, marketed the TurboTube back in the '60s. If you put enough spin on it TurboTube could be thrown forward and slightly downward and it would climb after thirty feet of so. It was made of brittle plastic because it had to maintain its round, tubular shape when thrown with some force. The front end of the tube was fairly thick and tapered to razor-thin on the backend. Once the backend got chipped up too much the airflow through TurboTube was disrupted and the delicate aerodynamic balance was lost.

[@lawrencelewis2592]

A friend had something similar about 25 years ago - a rubber tube, thick in the middle and tapered outward at both ends- you could throw it like a football and it was stable in flight and easy to catch.

[@TralfazConstruction]

@@lawrencelewis2592 I'm guessing that it would have been fairly rigid too so as not to deform if thrown hard. The taper you describe would enhance the Venturi effect of the air passing through its center.

[@lawrencelewis2592]

@@TralfazConstruction As I recall it was a soft rubber but did hold it's shape when thrown. The middle part was round and both ends looked like the bell of a horn.

[@captaintoyota3171]

Man they thought lift cane from pushing against the air. Kind of funny as we know now its the high pressure under low pressure over. Helicopters where how they saw it but didnt realize the amount of air pushing you'd need. Funny thing is Wright bros did make an early small wind tunnel to test wing shape lift. Lot of these guys shoulda looked at that. They really thought they could push themselves up when really you get lifted up by pressure differential

[@donaldparlettjr3295]

I flew into Coatsville numerous times while our tanker trucks were getting recertification at Keene Brothers.

[@ColeAviation]

@13:30 😂😂😂 What were folks thinking back in those days. 😂😂

[@arseniyseleznovveroboj1571]

Познавательные концепции!!

[@h7opolo]

best video ever

[@davidrivero7943]

Imagine had they seen the Future & the advances in long term Fights , now made in Glider looking Planes that are Solar powered. It blow their minds, as this has blown mines.

[@twohorse123]

back to the chopping block for the butcher, i guess.

[@Ailsworth]

Mr Kindree's Sky Car bouncing around was the funniest thing I ever saw. Do you suppose he was defeated by this test? Did he get angry drunk one night and destroy that flappy parasol? I would bet that he KNEW he had discovered an important principle (though he had not) and that others would follow his work and [invent the helicopter]. Sikorsky knew not of Kindree :(

[@Obinjess]

I've watched that part four times in a row and I can't stop laughing. Every time I go back and watch it thinking "no, it's not going to be as funny as the last time I saw it" and I am immediately proven wrong. It's damn hilarious and it's going to haunt me with fits of laughter as I try to fall asleep.

[@chrismaguire3667]

Not really new. There was another type, same principle some years before in Europe. Same result...

[@dad5650]

The Stipa-Caproni! The first ducted fan airplane.

[@evilpandakillabzonattkoccu4879]

.....I feel like Mel Blanc should have been narrating this.

[@crushingvanessa3277]

The saucer shaped wing actually worked pretty good. 7:00

[@dentalnovember]

Shh! That’s the original flying saucer, the basis for today’s spacecraft.

[@roberthaworth8991]

Pretty typical for a high-winged monoplane, like the Morane Parasol (1911). There are no new ideas incorporated. They thing's halfway to an autogiro.

[@NozomuYume]

Magnus effect aircraft (the "spindle" type) are so cool. The downside is they're just not as safe as a fixed-wing aircraft and you can't really make a practical gearing mechanism to let them do an autorotation landing like you can with a helicopter or autogyro.

[@2lotusman851]

Not Coanda effect. Coanda effect is the natural way that a jet of air follows a curved surface due to pressure differences in the air jet and the surrounding air.. Its his way to exploit the Magnus Effect. But the craft needs to be moving forward at a considerable speed. Easier to just use a regular wing--and then you would call it Circulation Theory.

[@NozomuYume]

@@2lotusman851 Oof. Fixed. I thought I'd fixed it while typing it out but I was half asleep and brainfarted.

[@Nlangkirby135]

Anyone think the sky car is the first jumping low rider?

[@wtxrailfan]

Just proves that human discovery is as happenstance as a broken clock being right twice a day.

[@DavidSiebert]

More along the lines of what happens when amateurs decided they know better than the experts.

[@SIDCIAVIC]

It is possible to have more money and drive than good sense.

[@yanikkunitsin1466]

3:24 - that's dyson fan. Nice idea, but %uel/output ratio is so weak you can walk faster on your 2's.

[@PrivateEyeYiYi]

There’s my flying car!

[@kenmcdougal97]

Was a little help from everything but gravity

[@isilder]

Barrell for stability ? Maybe the barrell could be used to increase cargo volume... Oh..

[@Patrick_Cooper]

One scary thing he mentioned. Using planes as Taxi's. I don't know about you, but I have met taxi drivers, whom I would question their ability to even drive. Imagine them in airplanes... And I was a taxi driver once. For a few months anyways...

[@chrismaguire3667]

Uber sky taxi, effendi?

[@Wailwulf]

My parents visited Tokyo in 1959 (My did had spent a year and a half in Guam as a Radioman for the Navy). The joke for them was that all the Taxi drivers in Tokyo were former pilots, a reverse of what you are describing. The Joke was basically that the Tokyo Taxi Cab Drivers were all former Kamikaze pilots. Definitely not PC nowadays, but those were the times.

[@bryanklein6428]

going going thats all

[@dentalnovember]

Is that Howard Hughes at 1:48?

[@JFrazer4303]

Granville, one of the designers of the GeeBee racers.

[@lawrencelewis2592]

I've seen that sky car before on TV

[@brentjames9388]

The first thing That pulls off the highway and into the field, I’m like no effing way, and then it takes off.

[@johnruschmeyer5769]

To me, it didn't look all that different from a modern ultralight.

[@rdbjrseattle]

They had a lot of faith in the strength of their materials- after all it was state of the art - then.

[@potatoegirl31]

11:38 was on an episode of Pee Wee's Playhouse!

[@thomasfourie8992]

That was very funny!

[@CobraDBlade]

"Any similarity to Air Corps products is purely coincidental" Translation: "We stole this shit for ourselves and you better keep your damn mouths shut about it!"

[@sturmovik5448]

Translation: "We really, really don't want anyone to think these loonies are associated with us"

[@JohnMassari]

@5:36 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin?

[@jacobmassengill1553]

My great grandfather flew a bow in ww2 with the army Air Corp. I still have his dress blouse

[@twt000]

@3min 26sec............Mig 19?

[@nancychace8619]

Oh lord! Lmao!

[@Jimmy-sb3fc]

I think that I've been muted or hidden on KZbin. Can anybody see or respond to this comment? Thank you in advance.

[@travisphelps3351]

I love how they think leather helmets would help anything back then lmfao

[@oldnick4707]

Might protect you from a nasty scratch as you put a nasty dent in your head? 🤠

[@oldnick4707]

@@SusanKay-, It's true,.. better than nothin! 👍🏻

[@xandervk2371]

The first ever aerial bombing of a city took place in the US when in 1921 volunteer pilots bombed black neighborhoods in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was also the first aerial bombardment in which incendiary devices were deployed.

[@roberthaworth8991]

This is not true. London was bombed 1914-17 by Zeppelins. The use of incendiaries carried by kites or balloons predates that by a long way.

[@Wailwulf]

You would be correct if your first sentence started out like this: "The first ever aerial bombing of a city _in the US_ took place when ..." First Aerial bombing of a town, city, or village was November 1, 1911 during the Italo-Turkish War. During WWI Cities were regularly bombed, such as the Zeppelin Raids that Robert Haworth refers to in is reply to you.

[@breakingames7772]

if i had a time machine id take a raptor jet that can land and take of vertically and show up here, and about 4000 years ago at the pyramids and bring a few machine guns with me and then go to asia around the time Ganges khan was reeking havok and wipe out his entire army single handedly and then be the most famous person in history

[@yawymatuo]

Too many commercials

[@thebunnisher109]

Needs to wear his pair of asbestos pants next time.

[@theresultof777]

I Am Iron Man

[@ALex-yv8xw]

Coatesville people always Fool the experts 10 to 1.....

[@flashgordon3715]

Oh, this again. Who destroyed the footage with a timer covering a good portion of the topic. Fail Bye Thumbs down

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[@askhowiknow5527]

That design did break all records for speed and stability, just a with a few modifications (jet engines)

[@markreeter6227]

Those daring young men and their flying machines

[@cliff8669]

Yes. Add a question mark to some of those flying machines. ballsy bunch for sure.

[@Thomasnmi]

That's catchy. Might make a good title for a movie.

[@roverworld7218]

@@Thomasnmi There's a 1960s comedy film based in the 1910s about an "aereoplane" race across the English Channel: "Those magnificent men and their flying machines".

[@askhowiknow5527]

I hope everyone got this reference

[@hifijohn]

they go up tiddly up up, they go down tiddly down down. They enchant all the ladies and steal all the scenes, with their up tiddly up up and their down tiddly down down.

[@NathanTarantlawriter]

OG ultralight with a freaking lawnmower engine on it. I want one!

[@toupac3195]

Good stuff, Periscope! I will definitely remember to wear my asbestos pants for next video.

[@adamc8627]

"Help from everything...except gravity." Lol

[@unclejoeoakland]

I liked the Italian tube plane. Just any ducted engine...

[@Milnoc]

Here's a twist as built by the French. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5_dZ6Ccn7hnrdU