Race Takeoff - Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines

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The aeroplanes in order of takeoff:
1) Santos-Dumont Demoiselle 0:06
2) Eardley Billing Tractor Biplane 0:15
3) Vickers 22 Monoplane 0:39
4) Antoinette IV Monoplane 0:57
5) Bristol Boxkite 1:10
6) Picat Dubreuil (could not fly) 1:35
7) Roe IV Triplane 1:40

[@davidkermes376]

when this movie first came out a little of folks called it a silly piece of tripe. just watching this scene reminds me how much better it was than 95% of the cinematic offal we have to put up with today.

[@zainmudassir2964]

Nice imo lot of fun imo

[@raypurchase801]

No CGI. Even the models looked real.

[@DanYHKim2]

​@@raypurchase801It is one of the amazing things about this movie that they actually did build all of these functioning replicas of historical aircraft.

[@raypurchase801]

@@DanYHKim2 AGREED! And a splendid display of great acting talent.

[@Darkhawk501]

Cause there's no green screen. It's all real

[@TheSlugstoppa]

Terry Thomas and Eric Sykes. The real life Dastardly and Mutley - brilliant stuff.

[@MichalKaczorowski]

Amazing replicas. Today all would be done in terrible CGI ;)

[@raypurchase801]

A BEAUTIFUL movie, lovely photography, very funny, a vast number of talented actors in every role, music by Ron Goodwin. Completely unlike any other film, A phenomenal effort which will never age. It still excites and makes us giggle today.

[@goldfing5898]

0:16 The Prussian officer portrayed by Gert Frobe might not be the best pilot (he must unforeseenly replace their original trained pilot and use the instruction manual of the plane), but you have to admit that he is courageous. The scene over the English Channel where he must ditch due to a bird stealing his manual is priceless :-)

[@DomWeasel]

German audiences loved him. Because Gert Frobe was a Saxon and to their ears he was portraying a stick-up-the-arse Prussian with their equivalent of a farmer voice.

[@maxasaurus3008]

WOW it’s all real! No CGI!

[@charlieross-BRM]

I remember seeing this at the theatre when it came out. I went with my parents and that was cool because we all had something good to share for days and days after that. That also happened with great films in no particular order, like Lawrence Of Arabia, Zulu, North To Alaska, all the way to The Sting.

[@mrbiglarge8820]

ok now I NEED to see this movie

[@chtubbie]

You do

[@ghislainegautreau1427]

Antoinette ! What a beautiful french marvel. Should have crossed the english channel first but Latham water landed instead and smoked a cigarette while wainting for the rescue boat. The demoiselle was such a wonderful Santos Dumont plane. He gave the plans away so that whoever was interested could build its own. Santos Dumont killed himself as WW2 was glooming. He felt responsable, as a plane pioneer, of the new "killing " machines used in 1938 in his beloved skies.

[@adammullarkey4996]

Shoutout to the extra who's one job in the entire film was to throw the hat in the air at 1:51

[@MCO18]

1:02 The Antoinette was one of the first planes powered by a V8 engine. It’s probably my favorite out of all the planes in the film.

[@Marco-hd7kw]

No the best is the Bleriot-Vickers at 0:45 .It is similar to the following Fokker EIII of first world war.

[@steffenrosmus9177]

Sleek does not mean fast .

[@Zodroo_Tint]

Probably the most fun to fly sitting basically on the top of it not inside.

[@jaytc3218]

It's interesting to see Robert Morley in this considering he was a spokesperson in British Airways television commercials. There's one commercial of him standing in front of a picture of Concorde.

[@JohnDavies-cn3ro]

A brilliant film, one of the all time greats. They wouldn't make a film like this, with such a marvellous collection of real flying machines now. Just love it. (And the way they send up just about every possible racial stereotype save the Russians, gently and lovingly, is terrific.)

[@alfnoakes392]

True, it would all be boring CGI now, whereas then they actually built copies (or 'lookalikes' that were a lot safer to fly than the originals).

[@connormclernon26]

No one is spared from mockery. Hell, the Brits even took two shots at themselves for the price of one

[@discoecultura76]

In moment 0:07 , this is a faithful copy of Santos Dumont's airplane "La Demoiselle".

[@williamkoppos7039]

First hang glider. Santos Dumont made cool airships too.

[@mekanikerpetersen4876]

More than that, it couldn't fly with a "full size" pilot - they had to get hold of one of little the "girls", who flew aircraft to the bases during WWII to fly it, cannot remember who, but I'm sure google know!

[@discoecultura76]

@@mekanikerpetersen4876 Santos Dumont was small in stature, thin, even his body type helped with his inventions.

[@robertsweet5212]

The STOL characteristics of these planes are amazing.

[@snowrocket]

They're very light and most have a lot of wing area.

[@timweather3847]

Their take-off speed was probably not much less than their maximum speed?

[@ClassicalMusicMan]

This is a Grand film It’s now in my top 5 as number 1 favorite.

[@buddyb4343]

Released in 1965. One of the first movies I remember as being approachably "epic!" (It took me a while to appreciate other movies of the time such as "Dr. Zhivago.")

[@ErstO1]

Thank you for posting this, it’s such a fun movie

[@a.k.885]

Another notable film role, was Derek Piggott's contribution to Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines in which he flew and advised on the construction of several of the early aircraft recreated for use in the film. Many of the planes employed wing warping for control in roll, which involved re-discovering how to fly them safely without the better roll control that comes from the use of ailerons. Several of the aircraft had dangerous features and he had a number of narrow escapes. -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Piggott (1922-2019)

[@zoltangabordudas4393]

No CGI! Priceless!

[@Defiant1940]

I haven't watched this movie in decades! I have to go search it out now!

[@TheGrenadier97]

Good heavens, i wasn't aware how cool this movie is

[@connormclernon26]

All real aircraft of the period, even if some are replicas

[@houstonhelicoptertours1006]

...excellent ones, I might add

[@frostyfrost4094]

And some of these aeroplanes are still flying some 50 years later "shuttleworth trust" collection Biggleswade

[@steffenrosmus9177]

All were replicas!!!!!!

[@markfox1545]

SOME are replicas?😅

[@user-rr2ut1pz6d]

Покорение воздуха... Сто лет до этого леталки того периода упали на землю и эскадрон гусар летучий пересел на коняшек...

[@sleethmitchell]

i loved this movie when it came out. i'll have to see it again!

[@walterlapaglia5722]

Qu'est ce qu'on a trop rigolé 🤣😂

[@alainarchambault2331]

Well, there was the Wright Flyer that first flew in 1903, till the war started by 1914. So, I guess this race was to take place at least around 1910.

[@vksasdgaming9472]

It is 1910 as Bleriot's flight over English Channel is mentioned to have happened last year.

[@raypurchase801]

I think it's set in 1912.

[@timcolledge6813]

Brilliant film !! 👏

[@budthebusker]

Loved the soundtrack...no wonder I became a pilot/muso....🚁🚁🚁👍🎶🎵🎸🚁👍😂

[@raypurchase801]

Did Airfix encourage you as well?

[@Moodymongul]

"..RUMPELSTOSS!!!"

[@ethanosaurusrex]

I’m an American and seeing the American plane landing gear fell during takeoff is shocking indeed

[@snowrocket]

This clip shows the beauty and wonder of early flight, when it was a big deal to just get off the ground and get there! Also, these are real survivor and replicated airplanes that actually are being flown. Really cool but scary stuff! It's a good movie!

[@adityasingh1051]

Hello, can anyone remember the last scene. How much time does it take for EE Lightening to cover the same distance?

[@choppergirlfpv]

Flying was so fun back then. Now men just crash in airplanes.

[@johnfrank6112]

A classic.

[@shop970]

Incredible. Nothing else like it in today's world!

[@Don_Camillo]

Ich weiß bis heute nicht, welchen Maschinentyp der deutsche Oberst geflogen haben soll. Eine Aviatik ?

[@Dr.W.Krueger]

1912 Eardley Billing Biplane

[@laurenceskinnerton73]

Very good.

[@garystevens4303]

Excellent. Can't find the entire film anywhere online 😒.

[@FordHoard]

It's on youtube movies for free right now.

[@garystevens4303]

@@FordHoard can you send a link?

[@garystevens4303]

@@FordHoard is it a subscription thing? What's KZbin movies?

[@garystevens4303]

@@FordHoard can't see it.

[@oldtimer4791]

I can imagine if one of the engines stalled as they flew towards the crowds... either that, or the lightweight construction was so flimsy that the pilot could break the plane in half just from their weight alone. It's lucky that the wheel from one of the planes didn't hit anyone. I can't judge the movie given that I've never watched it, but man... just looking at some of those planes is enough for me to refuse flying in them even if it was a life or death situation.😂

[@AllanMogensen]

The falling wheel was a result of sabotage from the bad guy ( Terry Thomas ) and not the only act of that, if I remember right

[@stvdagger8074]

A real life incident happened a year after the 1910 setting of this film. At the start of the 1911 Paris to Madrid air race, immediately after taking off, the plane piloted by Émile Train turned around due to engine troubles and tried to land on the field. However, a large part of the crowd had surged onto the field and a cavalry troop was galloping across the field to contain them. To avoid that mass of people and horses, the pilot landed on the other side but he couldn't avoid a smaller group of dignitaries who were also crossing the field.. The French Minister of War, Henri Berteaux, was killed. Several others were injured including the Prime Minister.

[@raypurchase801]

A saying from this era of aviation: "It's always a good landing if you can walk away from it".